Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-10
THE MALADY OF THE DAY.
News From the Hospitals and Bedsides
of Its Victims.

of Its Victims.
Thirty brakemen in the Reading yards are
of duty. There are twenty cases in the Read
ing cotton mill, twenty-five in the boys high
school and twenty-seven in the girls high
school. About fifteen of the city teachers are
incapacitated for duty.
There have been thirteen deaths from pneu-
monia in Rochester, NY, since Saturday. The
highest number of deaths from pneumonia re-
ported for any month during last year was
eleven. Physicians believe the disease in most
if not all cases results from grip.
West Point is seriously afflicted with grip.
Fully one-half of the cadets have the disease
and one-half of this number have reported at
the hospital. number of officers are also
down with the malady, among them Adjutant
Brown and Lieuts. Hodges. Dodd and Metcalf.
Fully twenty OF the engineer corps are suffer-
ing from the complaint. There have been no
fatal cases.
Minnie Thompson. aged eighteen years. was
found in her bed at Carlisle, Pa, in an uncon-
scious condition yesterday morning A physi-
clan decided she was suffering from powerful
opiate, and as her lips were covered with foam
he pronounced the drug morpha. This proved
to be the case. The girl had not been in good
health, but was of bright and cheerful dispo-
sition until last Saturday, when she was seized
with violent attack OF grip. Since then she
became melancholy, and it was believed that
her mind was affected at times.
Edward ]. Nolan died yesterday at Hancock,
MY, from pneumonia. brought on by the grip
He was well-known contractor, and at the
time of his death was engaged in building a
bridge at Hancock.
Geo. Mayors of Philadelphia was obliged yes
terday to send two of his sons, Philip and Harry,
to the Pennsylvania hospital for the insane. both
victims of the grip. Philip was taken sick be-
fore Christmas and suddenly developed symp-
toms of typhoid. and then insanity. Harry,
who is employee of the post office, was
obliged to do extra duty on account of the grip.
and this, In conjunction with q fever and slight
lung complications brought on by the grip,
caused him to become violently insane Wednes-
day.
The supply and freight departments Of the
Pennsylvania railroad, Broad and Ellsworth
streets, Philadelphia, have been crippled on ac-
count of the illness of employees. In the freight
department fully one-half the men are off duty
and eleven clerks, including l. A. Grant, chief
clerk, are down.
Mrs. Henry L. Young, wife of millionaire
citizen of Poughkeepsie, died Of pneumonia
yesterday, which was superinduced by the
epidemic. John Candlee, superintendent Of
the electric light company, is sick with the
disease, as is also DIR. j. G. Portous health Of
ficer. All the physicians Of the city are over
worked.
Mayor Filter of Philadelphia had slight re-
lapse yesterday and was obliged to remain at
home
Isaac Heifer, aged thirty-two, heater at the
sheet mill, died in Reading, Pa, yesterday.
While Warden Toole was at the Pottsyille
Pa, Jail looking after dozen Of his prisoners
who are afflicted he received a telegram an
nouncing the death of his brother-in- law
Joseph Coakley. prominent Shenandoah hotel
keeper, of the disease.
Grip yesterday put off a murder trial at Lock
Haven, Pa. The court ordered that the case of
the Commonwealth against Charles Brown for
the murder of William LOvett be laid over
until the February term on account of the i'll
ness of c. s. Mccormick, one Of the attorneys
from grip.
in New York thus far is as follows: Sunday,
$50; Monday, LAG: Tuesday, 1876; Wednesday,
$50; Thursday, 207-total 1913.
The deaths in Paris yesterday numbered 311
The daily average for last week was 1888, and
the reduction is interpreted as a sign of de-
creased virulence in the disease.
The Philadelphia hospital has been overrun
with patients suffering from the grip and sew
eral have been refused admission, as every Dos
sible space is taken up.
There are SO many applicants for treatment
for the epidemic at the Pennsylvania hospital
in Philadelphia that the resident physicians
have asked the trustees to fit up some vacant
rooms In the receiving ward for a grip ward"
Earl Spencer has the influenza in a very bad
form.
of Wales, has the influenza.
There are thirty cases of the grip in the st.
Louis Jail. At the state penitentiary at Jeffer-
son City the influenza ID playing havoc. Yes
terday's hospital bulletin showed 1l9 patients
OF this number 100 are victims of the cpl
demic.
The Rev. Father Maurice J. Dougherty one
of the assistants to Father McCready at the
Church of the Holy Cross, New York, died yes
terday of pneumonia. 1t followed an attack of
the grip.
In Bellevue hospital, New York there are
1,5OO patients at the present time, 100 of
whom are suffering from pulmonary affec-
tons.
Mrs. Henry Bischoff, the mother of the
newly elected judge of the court of common
pleas, New York, died of pneumonia on Thurs
day. Her illness began with the grip.
The queen mother of Portugal has the in
fuenZa.
At the Chicago health department during the
last two days eleven deaths from the grip have
been reported.
Etheibert l.. Dudley, general manager of
the st. Paul and Duluth road, is dying at his
rooms at the Hotel Ryan, st. Paul. of laryngeal
paralysis following the grip.
Capt James +. Cecil, general agent of the
Norfolk and Western railroad company, died
yesterday al Norfolk from pneumonia which
succeeded an attack Of the grip.
Frank Payne, the thirteen year-old son of
Supervisor Melton Z. Payne. the well-known
dairy man of Balley's Cross Roads, Va, while
suffering from case of the grip, got out OF
bed about o'clock am. yesterday and wal-
dered away. His absence was discovered in
short time and search began. He was found
OF the Alexandria pike short distance from
home very wet and very cold
A. b. Goodale, one of the best known resi-
dents OF Port Jeryis, died Wednesday. At
Kansas City Mr.. Goodale was attacked with
grip, which developed into pneumonia, result
ms IN his death. He was appointed postmaster
at Port Jervis in 1861 by President Lincoln,
and for seventeen years held the office.
The Pal MAJ Gazette sent reporter to in
terview three celebrated physicians about a
cure for influenza. They were Sir Oscar Clayton,
DIR. Roose, physician to Lord Randolph
Churchill, and Sir Morell Mackenzie. He re-
ceIved three different prescriptions.
The grip is spreading among the Jersey City
school teachers. Yesterday twenty-eight were
absent from the schools ON account of it.
The body OF "A man with n bullet hole in the
heart was found on an embankment near the
9th street bridge over the Long Island railroad
In Long Island City yesterday. The body was
identified as that of Thomas Finley, who ran
for the assembly OH the greenback ticket.
Continued i'll health, aggravated by an attack
OF the grip. led him to commit suicide.
William and John ID. Rockefeller, who have
been confined to their residences in New York
for several days past with the influenza, were
much improved yesterday.
Superintendent White of the New York
morgue says that he believes that the grip is
declining. There were twenty-three bodies in
the morgue at noon yesterday, and the tug FL
deity will probably carry thirty to Harris Island
for burial this morning.