River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-01-16
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They Are Being Fully Realized In CHI
cago-An Increased Death Rate-Under-
takers Unable to Furnish Hearses to
Carry Away the Dead-The Disease
Abating in New York.
New YORK, Jan. 13.-Sunday's NOR
tally report for the twenty-four hours
ended at noon was 1876. Thirty of these
deaths were in hospitals, fifty-six were
due to pneumonia, eighteen to bron-
chitis. thirty-eight to consumption, and
fifteen TO influenza and complications
According TO the statement of the
members of the health department the
prevailing epidemic is on the decline.
There were 1.424 deaths during last
week, by far the largest number ever
known in a winter month in this city.
CHICAGO, Jan. l5.-Infiuenza must
now be recognized as the subtle pilot of
pneumonia and bronchitis. 1t has al
ready reached 1Oo. 900 people of Chicago
in one form or anotl CT. Where proper
care has been taken there have
been, with rare exceptions. no serious
results. There are now $4,000 persons
in the city in the grasp of the grip. Ii
is no exaggerat ton TO compute the num-
Der of persons lying dangerously i'll with
resu ant complications at over LOCO.
There were over 500 deaths in the city
during the seven days ended at mid
night Saturday night There were Az
deaths during the preceding week,
Nearly one-third of the deaths of tho
pa week were from pneumonia, bron-
cl.5is and consumption.
Il is only by the greatest effort that
undertakers and doctors are enabled TO
answer the calls made upon them. There
we're more people awaiting burial in
town Sunday than the hearses could
decorously carry to the graveyards.
Eight bodies were borne to the Gene
teries in carriages The supply of
hearses was exhausted early in the
morning.
At the department of public schools
Secretary Rowland reports that from
5000 to 10. coo pupils are kept home by
illness and that their ailment in a large
majority OF cases was reported as the
grip. A similar state of affairs pre-
vailed among the teachers. over
[ 200 being reported on the sick list.
In the police department about one
tenth of the patrolmen are i'll. The
street-car lines still report large num-
Der of their employees laid up with the
prevailing disorder. Out of 1000 con-
! ductors, drivers and barn men employed
/ by the West Division Railway Company
500 are unable to be on duty.
BosToN, Jan. I3.-The deaths for the
I last week have been 1876 This is the
/ greatest number ever recorded in any
seven days in this city. The rate last
week was 327. The average weekly
/ rate is about $50. Pneumonia claimed
\ 113 victims. consumption eighty-two,
and bronchitis thirty-two. The grip,
pure simple, caused fourteen
deaths
Mi SAUKEE, Jan. 1.-Two more
deaths from influenza were reported
here Sun lay. The st. Francis Seminary
school, a Catholic institute, has been
closed because of the spread of the grip
among the pupils, eighty of them being
afflicted at present.
LONDON, Jan. 13.-Happily the in
fuenza epidemic shows signs of abate-
ment in London. Reports from hos
4 pitfalls, infirmaries, dispensaries and
/ private practitioners all tend to show
that the plague is on the wane,
both in regard to its progress
and virulence. The officials of
( the Odd Fellows, Forresters and
other great friendly societies num-
boring in the aggregate over 1000, 600
members, state that the sick list, which
for fortnight past has been - per cent.
above the average, has begun 10 dimin-
\ ish, and reports from the postal and
\ police departments are equally reassur-
/ ing.
| On the continent the disease is spread
! ing in the Balkan states, Italy and
4 Greece, and is evidently on the march
to Constantinople, but elsewhere in Eu-
rope it is abating, although not so quick
! " as in England.
/ BERLIN, Jan. 13.-The total number
/ of cases of influenza in Berlin is esti-
! mated at 400, 900. There have been $50
I deaths due to the disease. The Princess
Bismarck is recovering, but still suffers
I from weakness and detection.
! PARIS, Jan. 13.-There is no apprecia-
/ bic decrease in the violence of the cpl
demic in the various provinces of
/ France. Everywhere people are dying
/ at about double the usual rate.