The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-28
LA GRIPPE
GETTING a MORE TENACIOUS
HOLD EVERYWHERE.
Crowned Heads of Europe ~ We'll ~ the
sovereigns of America Victims of the
Disease-Latest Reports OF its Inrcads
From ali Quarters.

/ country 10 q limited extent. but abroad ~
rlyages in The past few days have Occa
1 stoned much alarm. At Lisbon. in spain
the epidemic prevails 10 such an extent
among the soldiers in the garrison thai
the review announced for to-day on the
/ occasion o. the IrOclaiming II Don Car
l lD- as King Of Portugal Will have to y
/ postponed. vi Berlin the public health au-
| thOrities report great increase in the num-
/ Der Of cases and an aggrayatiOn Of the dis
ease with IN increase in the death rate.
| The fatal effects are produced by complies
tions Of pneumonia and laryngiis. From
! Bremen there is news that the gas works
is short Of hands in consequence Of the num-
I Der Of employees down with the epidemic.
In Munich the disease is increasing and the
hospitals are fGli Tire epidemic has
appeared at Bucharest. Galatz and
Braila. At Paris. in consequence Il
the spread Of the affection. the hospitals are
crowded and the authorities have been COM
pelled 10 make extraordinary provision for
new patients. This has been done by the
erection Of a temporary pavilion on the
gro'inds of the Hospital Be1uion. In the
school of the daughters Of the members Of
the Legion Of Honor at Denis one
third Of the pupils were i'll. and the
school has therefore been closed. At "a
meeting Of the Paris Academy Of
medicine, Or. German See read paIer on
the influenza, which WAS discussed bY other
distinguished members OF The profession.
DR.. See thought the academy should not
encourage the opinion that the epidemic
was without gravity. lie said that the pa
tents were very apt ~ have pneumonia or
bronchitis in fatal forms. Dr. Duj0rdin
Beaumetz disagreed with Dr. See rs to some
points in the nature Of the malady, but not
as to the fact that il is not always benign.
lie believed that the epidemic was a form
Of the dcnguc-a peculiar erratic cpl
demic fever allied 10 the rheumatic
affections. lie bad observed that it present.
ed two phases First, q nervous phase. and.
next. a catarrhal phase. and that there was
sometimes an eruptlOn-a simple rash. The
varieties in the disease were due 10 the pre-
dominance in case OF any one Of these
facts. DIR. ROchard suggested that the rash
might perhaps not be a part Of the disease.
but only a consequence Of the large quanti-
ties Of antipyrine given 10 the patients. All
the speakers cOncurred in the opinion that
the disease is not harmless and that IN ease
Of relapse the consequences are very serious.
\ cablegTam from ~. Petersburg, dated
the 10Th. saws that the Gar, upon recover
ing from his first attack Of influenza, lmme-
diaiely rclapscd into a worse form Of the
disease, and is now in "A condition which
may be regarded as critical An effort Is
being made 10 suppress the news, for fear
Of its effect upon the people.
In New York the grip Is tightening it,
hold. Thursday the fact was disclosed that
President Wilson. of the board of health
has been confined 20 his home for nearly a
week with the disease. The entire family
Of Chemist Edward Martin. OF the health
department. is also affected. The health
commissioners, however, decline 20 give
any information on the subject. End refuse
20 make public such cases as have been re-
ported to them. at the same time protesting
to make light oi the whole matter. Ia
Cheyenne, Col, the influenza has struck.
and 500 cases in that city and Denver are
keeping physicians busy 10 is said Bos-
tOnian introduced the disease there while
passing through TO the coast.
Now. what is the influenza Here's a
description Of it: II begins with the usual
symptoms of a bad cold. such as sneeziHg,
watering Of the eyes and aching ir me
limbs. the latter being especially seytsc. y
day or two of fever cnsues. and in the most
aggravated cases the invalid suffers from
an obstinate attack Of diarrhWa. Unlike
other forms Of cold. exposure % the weather
seems 20 have nothing to do with Il. Then,
after the actual disease is over (and IL sell
dom lasts beyond a week at the uimOsD
orally miserable. For this state Of things.
and 10 perfect COnvalesccnce, clange Of air
is the best remedy.
The following are the latest reports by
telegraph Of the disease:
IL MASSACHUSETTS.
BosroN. December 2-.-Bost0n il Overrun
with LA Grippe" OF actual cases demand
ing medical care. il is no cNaggcraiiOn 10 say
there are $1,000 in and around Boston. 20
many West End railway employees are down
with il that they were unable 40 open up
another electric route 10 the depOts on the
day advertised. Many Of the city officials
are nursing the malady az home. AT the
house of correction i'm Cambridge lis of the
$50 prisoners were laid On from regular
work. one doctor ON the Back Bay reports
having 80 patients suffering from the
grip. In several instances the sufferers
cannot leave their beds. Lairench. Lowell,
Ilayre Hill. WObum. Lynn, Brockton and
other nearby cities report the spread Of tue
epidemic there. In salem several hundred
people are suffering. In one prominent
family a wedding was announced 20 take
place Yesterday afternoon. but, as the pros
pectiye bride has been suffering, the cere-
mOny was postponed. Sixty prisoners IN
the salem Jail have il. Maiden City claims
1000 cases.
one death is reported from "la grippe"
that Of a colOred man named Lewis, an in
mate at the Consumptiye Home, who died
yesterday.
The influenza is on the increase here. III
j. safe 10 say that Oyersonc-tenth OF the pop
uatiOn is affected by il.
WORCESTER, MASS, December 2I.-La-
Grippe has many victims in this city. one
large dry goods store has thirty clerks on
the sick list.
CANTON. MASS. December 2I-ThOmas
smith. aged twenty-five, died this morning.
lie had been i'll with "La Grippe and
yentured out before he had entirely recoy-
cred. Ilisilness developed into pneumonia,
with the stated result.
THE DISEASE N NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, December 27.-Thc doctors
have not yet agreed as 10 whether the real
Russian grip has taken hold Of New York.
or how the similar complaint here should
be treated. But they are all agreed on one
point. namely-that the arrival Of the al
legged grip is coincident with q remark
able increase in the number Of deaths from
pneumonia.
NEW YORK, December 25.-The number
Of persons in New York and Brooklyn sui-
fering from influenza is very large, and
constantly increasing. While no in
stances OF death. DUE directly 10 influenza,
nave been reported. the number Of deaths
from pneumonia has increased 20 remark
ably as TO Indicate some connection be-
tween the epidemic of so-called influenza
and pneumonia. There il hardly a business
house or an Office down town whose force Of
clerks has not been shortened. more or less.
by "La Grippe" The same state Of affairs
exists in Brooklyn and Jersey CITY.
ALBANY. y. Y, December FLA Grippe
has taken n good grip in Albany, and some
people are beginning 20 get alarmed. In
one dry-gOOds store fully twenty employees
are home sick with the disease.
THE DISEASE IN BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE, Nd, December 21.-Seyeral
cases Of influenza have been reported In
Baltimore during the past few davs, but
there is no certainty as TO their being real
genuine grippe. About thirty pOstofiice
are laid up with the trouble.
No EPIDEMIC IN PrrrsBURG.
PrrTsBURG, December pa few iso-
lated cases Of genuine influenza are re-
ported in this city, but as yet no epidemic
has resulted.
HPI DEMIC IN OMAHA.
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