Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-01-15
TOO MUCH WORK.
La Grippe Giving Physicians and Under.
takers More Than They Can DO.

La Grippe Giving Physicians and Under.
takers More Than They Can 10.
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-The grip still
continues prevalent in the city, rs the
record Ut deaths clearly demonstrates.
The twenty-four hours ending at noon
Thursday showed 2O7 deaths, against $50
for the day previous. OF these influenza,
complicated with pneumonia, bronchitis
and phthisis claimed fourteen victims.
and to pneumonia sixty.three sue
cumbed. In almost every case of this
latter disease the patient had first had
an attack Of the grip. The mortality
thus far during the week beginning on
Sunday and ending Thursday at noon
sums up 1,048. a.
Boston, Jan. 10.-The mortality of Bos-
ton these days is away beyond any thing
ever known in the history Of the city.
The death rate for the week which
ended last Saturday was about double
the ordinary. Sunday of this week Sc
deaths were reported; Monday, SO; Tues
day, 70, and Wednesday So, or for three
days about 10 more deaths than are
usual in week. It is not necessary to
say that IS per cent of these deaths are
either directly or indirectly due to the
influenza. Some seventeen of them are
attributed directly to this epidemic.
The undertakers have their hands full
and are working days, nights and Sun
days to keep up with their orders. The
hacks and hearses used at funerals are
in constant demand. The grave-dig-
gers were never so busy. The florists
stocks of funeral flowers are depleted.
Meanwhile about one in every three Of
the city's 400, ZOO inhabitants has or has
had the disease, and the remainder are
in hourly expectation of being attacked.
Children escape easily.
Reports from all over the New En-
gland States show that the disease is
making steady progress.
Providence, r. l., dispatch to the
Globe says that inside Of five hours
Wednesday twenty-one deaths were re-
ported there from grip and pneumonia,
and seven deaths at nearby out-of-town
places.
CHICAGO, Jan. 10.-At the health de-
partment during the last two days seven
deaths from la grippe, or influenza, COM
plicated with other troubles, have been
reported. While these are the only deaths
attributed to influenza, the general
mortality is abnormally high, and pull
monary diseases figure conspicut 1sly,
as the records show. Within month the
increase has been almost 100 per cent
The undertakers will bear witness to
the large increase in deaths. Some of
them complain that they have been
obliged to postpone funerals because of
their inability to secure hearses.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. TO- "A poll
of twenty-five of the leading manufact-
uring establishments in Indianapolis
shows that there are over thousand
employees who are off duty on account g.:
the influenza. -Four deaths of aged PEI
sons afflicted with the disease were r.-
ported Thursday. Physicians and drug
gists are kept busy. The epidemic i
becoming alarming.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 10.-There are thirt1
cases of la grippe in the city Jail. Noes
of them are serious. At the State peni-
Tertiary at Jefferson City, Mo-, 100 con-
victs are victims of the epidemic.
WALLA WALLA, Wash, Jan. lot
Is estimated that 500 persons are down
with influenza. The military post has
I nearly 100 cases. No deaths have oc-
CURED. The symptoms are Identical
with those described in the dispatches
from Europe and the East.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 10.-Dr. S. T.
Evans, leading physician of Union
City, committed suicide Thursday by
shooting himself through the head. He
had been suffering from influenza.