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Show CRIHO liLOEH SUFFERERS UMBER wins SHOW IBut Number of Deaths From Disease is Far Below Toll of Last Year CHICAGO, Jan. 21. More than six thousand persons in Chicago today are ill from influenza, and reports were that the contagion hat. appeared in cities and towns throughout the middle mid-dle west. Pneumonia also was reported report-ed epidemic, and proportionately had caused a large number of deaths. During tho last twenty-four hours new cases of influenza were reported at the rate of fifty an hour. Of these three hundred could not be given oven temporary supervision by trained nurses. Fifteen additional nurses are urgently needed at once, tho commissioner commis-sioner announced Deaths from influenza during the last 21 hours numbered 36 as against 211 during the day, the greatest number num-ber of cases was reported in last year's epidemic. |