The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-15
A WIDESPREAD EPIDEMIC.
The Influenza, After Ravaging
Europe, Reaches America.
People Suffering From the Dis
ease Almost Everywhere.

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! its attacks. 1t has become epidemic in
large number of places. From numerous
telegraphic dispatches we select the follow.
ing as evidence of the widespread VISITS Oh
| the disease:
New York: The hospitals of this city and
| BROOKLYN are full of sufferers from la grippe,
and almost every block in either city has ltS
stricken household. The disease has appeared
in several of the big public institutions ana
Bellevue Hospital is overhowing with pa
tients The number Of clerks IN the large
stores who are on the sick list IS unprece-
dented, and the Police Department is affected.
In the First and Twenty-frst Precincts alone
nearly thirty men have been under medical
treatment. and at one time more than 3O0 OIL
GERS were laid up A great many prominent
neoule. including Judges, ministers and
doctors. have been attacked. The theatres
too. have suffered severely, many of the per-
| formers being too i'll to play their parts IL
was the general opinion of the physicians
| likely to get the grip than those who take
| nlentv of active outdoor exercise. The
same conditions that govern the catching or
ordinary colds hold more or less with the
Grin INQUIRY among drivers of horse cars
| DEVELOPED 1.-THE fact that, while large mum,
| ber have slight influenza, very few lndeea
have had to stop work because OF the grip.
Eighteen conductors and drivers nave OF
have had the grip on one line, ou1 le" nave
| lost more than day.
Philadelphia: La grippe has got Phlla-
deIpbia in its clutches with strong grasp
| Some estimates place the number OF persons
| in the city suffering from the disease Is !Oo,,
| 900. Mayor Filter was attacked anu oDllgeu
to remain at his home. The Director OF rue
lie Works, Mr.. Stokeley. the SuperintendenG
| of Police the Chief of Detectives wood ana
10 -i -, - +lo noI;ce force are also laid
up with the grip.
Boston: A large number of persons or all
| classes of society have been attacked with the
inAuenza. Ex-Fire Commissioner Henry w.
Longley had an attack, and had apparently
recovered, when pneumonia set IN with fata'
result.
Chicago: The Russian influenza seems to
be settling down in several towns In the
vicinity of Chicago. 1t is reported 70 De
mild, however, at all points except hocH-
ford where a number of patients are serl-
ously i'll.
Nashville, Tenn: La grippe has struck
Nashville and there are a number OF cas,s,
none serious however. About ten police
men. including the Chief, have it.
Trenton, N. j.: A number of cases C. In
Huenza are reported here, but the local phys
clans are divided in opinion as to whether 1t
is the Russian contagion or only form Oh
LILO malaQY UudU Is iOi
Cleveland, Ohio: The Russian infuen a is
quite prevalent in Cleveland. All classes OF
people seem to be affected, and some are
compelled to take to their beds.
Asbury Park N. j.: La grippe has made
its appearance in A.bury Park and Ocean
Grove. There are nearly thirty cases in the
two towns. and the physicians are kept busy
watching their patients Several OF the
cases have been very severe.
ia, H.
pearance in this city Fully 500 genuine cases
haze been reported here but of compara'
lively mild form:
Rochester, n Y: Influenza is spreading
here with great rapidity. In other towns II
this vicinity the disease has also appeared
Oswego, n. Y: La grippe has struck this
locality, and scores Of cases are reported.
Merchants, mechanics, physicians and labor
ers are wrestling with it. Twelve crews or
the western division Of the Rome, Water.
town and Ogdensburg Railroad are laid OIL
with the disease.
Providence RI: The grip has developed
into a mild epidemic here. Nearly every
other person either has the disease or has re-
covered from it. Fifteen members OF the
police force are laid up with it; forty mem
bers of the Fire Department, half OF the en-
nIoyes of the CITY Hall, while horse-car
drivers and conductors are laid of by the
score.
Charleston, W. Va; La grippe has ap.
neared in this CITY. Governor Wilson has
been confined to his room with it for several
days, and many other cases are reported.
Baltimore Md; La grippe has taken
a fatal hold on Baltimore, and many deaths
from pneumonia, superinduced by the In
fuenza malady, are reported. The disease Is
particularly severe in the eastern section OF
the CITY, whole families being down with it.
Utica, N. Y: Michael Hopkins, promi-
nent drygoods merchant has died. He was
the first victim of la grippe in this city.
Toledo, Ohio: Fully 5000 persons in this
city are victims of Ia grippe The mala.
dy is rapidly spreading.
Norfolk, Va: Twenty-seven cases Of the
United States receiving ship Franklin, and
forty-five cases at the United States Marine
Canton, Ohio. Paul Young, age twenty.
son of Colonel J. j. Young, President of the
Bolton Steel Company, of this city has COM
mitted suicide. He has been suffering with
influenza.
Ottawa, Canada: La grippe has broken
out here. Many people are suffering from
it.
Winnipeg, Manitoba: The grip has strucs
Winnipeg, and many cases are reported.
The Disease Described.
A Paris correspondent of the New York
World saws that the first symptom of gen.
uine case of la grippe is high fever with
chills, pains in head, back and limbs, so Sc
we're that the patient groans and even
screams in his agony. 1t is almost imposs!..
BILE to open the eyes because of weakness OF
the muscles, and the tongue is brown, some
times black, with red edges. Every one af-
flicted with dengue fever has distaSte for all
kinds of nourishment, solid and liquid.
At the end of three or four days an
, eruption appears Sometimes this resembles
scarlet fever, sometimes measles. If the
case be severe one the fever continues ten
or even fifteen days, but usually the patient
is convalcscent at the end of the sixth day.
However, convalescence is very slow, and
for days, even weeks, one who has passed
through the dengue fever cannot eat and has
hardly strength enough to speak
The fever seldom terminates in death, for
in Smyrna, where there have been more than
one hundred thousand cases of dengue, but
two persons have died from its effects.
A famous German scientist says that the
disease was known in the thirteenth century,
and that then the symptoms were the same
as now. He also says that the epidemic trav-
els in certain direction and at a rate of
speed that may very easily be calculated.
As proof, he cites the fact that ships crew
was attacked. by the disease in mid-ocean at
lust the time it was estimated that the air
charged with poison must have passed over
the vessel.
1t is said that since the year 1910 there
have been 300 epidemics of this kind, and in
1929 there was not city in Europe free from
the disease. Then it was often fatal and in
London more than one thousand persons died
in week. In 1775 the disease attacked ami
mails, and that same year, in st. Petersburg,
more than forty thousand persons. were
strickep with the fever in tweuty-four hours.