Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-28
LA GRIPPE.
Influenza Spreading Rapidly
at the East.
SENATOR INGALLS, FRUSTRATED
Many Fatalities Attending the Epi.
demic in EurOpe-ROyal
Sufferers.


NEW York, December 27.-The mum.
ber of persons in New York and Brook
lyn suffering from influenza is very large
and constantly increasing. While no in-
stances of death directly due to influenza
have been reported, the number of
deaths from pneumonia has increased so
remarkably as to indicate some con-
neetion between the epidemic of the
so-called influenza and pneumonia.
There is hardly q business house or
Office down town whose force Of clerks
has not been shortened more or less by
la grippe. The same state of affairs ex-
lists in Brooklyn and Jersey City. The
Health Boards of oil three cities say that
there is no danger from the epidemic.
Dispatches from Philadelphia, Boston,
Albany, Buffalo and other eastern cities
report the prevalence to a considerable
extent of the popular epidemic la grippe.
Except in Boston, however, it seems to
be of very mild type. In Boston many
of the victims have been seriously i'll,
and one or two fatalities, believed to be
consequent upon it, are reported.
SENATOR INGALLS, AFFLICTED.
ATcHIsoN, Kan December 27.-Sena-
tor Ingalls,, who is home for his holi-
day vacation, was seized with cold last
night which today developed symptoms
of Russian influenza.
The Senator's attack of influenza as
sumed more virulent form this evening
and he was compelled by his physicians
to take to his bed. No serious results
are anticipated.
JUDGE LoNGENECKER ATTACKED.
CHICAGO, December 27.-Infuenza has
reached Chicago. One physician reports
fifteen cases. States Attorney Long
enecker is among the victims.
AFATAL CASE.
CANTON. Mass, December 27.-Thomas
Smith died this morning. He had been
i'll with la grippe and ventured out before
he had entirely recovered. His illness
developed into pneumonia.
BALTIMORE PosToFFICE EMPLOYEES.
BALTIMORE, December 27.-Thirty odd
of the local postoffice clerks and letter
carriers are suffering from influenza, and
are unable to work. Numerous other
local cases of la grippe are also reported
ROCHESTER, SCHOOL CHILDREN.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, December 27.-One
hundred and ten school children in this
city are down with la grippe.
THE EPIDEMIC AT OMAHA.
OMAHA, December 27.-The physicians
of this city report the prevalence of ls
grippe to a large extent, but in mild
form. They diagnose it as species O.
epizootic.
NATURE OF THE DISEASE. y
PHILADELPHIA, December 27.-The
| Medical NesUs tomorrow will publish ar
| exhaustive article on influenza, or ls
grippe, by Professor Bartholomew, of th(
Jefferson Medical College. 1t says, il
goes as quickly. The least robust atsany
age and aged women seem to be the frs
victims. The large mum bers simultsne
ously attacked attract general attention
and thus the most impressionable are
seized, the onset being facilitated by any
depressing notion, like fear or illness
| With the fist access of nasal and facia
irritation, comes chilliness, which il
followed by feverishness with pro
nounced malaria and headache, weak
ness and soreness of the members
especially of the large joints. With the
progress of the disease there is consider
able general weakness and marked de
preston of the vital powers when fata
termination is to occur. As a rule, the
affection extends downward into the
trachea, and bronchitis takes place. Re
lapses are common, and frequently
pass by an easy transition into chronic
bronchitis, asthma, etc. Sometimes The
catarrhal process contributes to chronic
disease of the ear, nose and throat, ant
permanently damages those parts. q