Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-30
WANTS THE EARTH,
The Grip is Making an Extended Tour
Around the World.

Official reports show there was but one death
from the grippe in Paris last week. There
were 800 deaths registered as against 1,1SS
during the preceding week. The increase is
due to the greater prevalence OF lung and bron-
chial diseases. Only one death is recorded as
due to grippe, and the victim had long been
suffering from diabetes, which was aggravated
and made fatal by the grippe, but there were
no less than 332 deaths from diseases of the
organs of respiration, as against 243 during the
preceding week. Influenza is still in full swing,
and chemists are reaping golden harvest.
Quinine and antipyrine are being sold by the
ton. Fashionable chemists are selling 1880
francs worth of these drugs a week
Baron kremers. the Orientalist. died at vi
emma from the effects OF influenza.
meeting of the medical men. the governor
of Madrid presiding. was held Saturday at
Madrid to consider measures for coping with
the epidemic OF influenza, which Is rapidly
spreading. 1t was decided to open relief bu-
reaus at all the hospitals and to distribute APP
propriate medicines among the afflicted. The
tenor Gayarre. Senior Cauovas del Castillo and
several cabinet ministers. including Premier
SaSas!a, are among the sufferers from infu-
enZa.
There have been two deaths from influenza
at Dantzie. At Frankfort forty-six members of
tn. opera company and l60 soldiers of { he gar
risoh are i'll
IN NEW YORK.
The health officials of New York maintain
that Officially" there is no positive evidence
of the existence OF la grippe there. DIR.
Bryant. the health commissioner. and Presi-
dent Wilson of board OF health last week re-
pied to a telegram from Surgeon General
Hamilton, ''that there is no la grippe i'll this
city, as far we are informed officially" On the
day following President Wilson fell victim to
the disease ana has become convalescent only
within few days. The total deaths for the
week ending December 81 were 665 and for last
week 762-an increase of 81 Never III the his
tory of the health department has pneumonia
reached such IL stage of mortality as during the
past week. Competent sanitarlans admit pri-
vately that La grippe III It's fatality can accu-
rately be determined by watching the deaths
ON pneumonia, bronchitis and kindred dis
eases. The subordinates in the health office
admit freely that probably $4,000 of the popu-
luation of Gotham are affected by influenza.
About two hundred cases are reported oil Staten
Island There are about 1,2O0 cases of IN
huenza in Newark. Nearly all inmates in the
Morris PLANES insane asylum have been at
tackled.
ELSEWHERE.
ga grippe" has appeared in the Mohawk val
ley At Fort Plain there are many cases, includ,
ing Judge Wendell. W. J. Arken OF Judge is
The first death in Chicago from influenza oc-
cured Saturday, the victim being Mrs. Julia
A. Ingalls,, native American, seventy-:wo
years old.
Sig Tamagno, the leading tenor in the
Italian opera company, is laid up with the dis
ease in a mild form and could not sing with AL
bini Saturday afternoon.
Senator Ingalls, attack of ''la grippe
| though very severe, was OF brief duration. lie
was able to be about Saturday and left for
Washington that night
careful estimate places the number OF
| cases of influenza in New Haven at about z, 000
Some physicians think that the disease il
simply epidemic cold and that there is not a
single case Of real ia grippe" The symp.
! toms, however, are those of that disease.
A lare number OF persons in and around
Ottawa, Canada, are afflicted with q mild type
Of influenza. 1t appears, III almost every ease
| reported, to be complicated with pneumonia OIL
| neuralgia.
The influenza has made its appearance in
| Cincinnati Fully five hundred genuine cases
Of Russian la grippe" have been reported
but they are OF comparatively mild form.