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Show oo Influenza Cases MOil and Death Rate Low WASHINGTON. Jan. 19 Although 'there was a slight increase in the number num-ber of influenza cases, especially in tho Chicago district, reported to" the public health service today, officials said there was nothing alarming in the present situation. Tho disease is of a mild type and with a'iow'death rate, they said, while the number of pneumonia cases resulting result-ing is small. Officials of the service pointed out that as only about 1.000 cases throughout through-out the country wcro reported last -week as compared with more than 4,- 000,000 cases a year ago, the spread o III the disease has hardly reached a stag III to cause anxietv. KM oo . Ill |