Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-01-09
INFLUENZA.
Remarkable Increase in tho Death
Rate of New York City.
Men Attacked by La Grippe In Greater
Numbers and with More Serious Re-
suits Than Women-Progress
of the Malady.
MANY ARE DYING.

MANI AikE DfiNus
WASHINGTON, Jan. A large num-
Der of Congressman are down with the
grip and the work in the departments
is seriously retarded by the prevailing
sickness among the clerks and officials
In fact, there is no business in the city
that is not more or less affected by t.
CLEVELAND, o., Jan. 4.-Health Off
Ger Ashmun, of this city, reports that
there are 5000 cases of la grippe in
Cleveland. Policemen, firemen, street
railroaders and nearly all classes are
attacked by ii. There have yet been no
fatal cases here.
PARKERsBURG, w. Va, Jan. 4,-This
State has begun to experience la grippe.
Information from Martinsburg, Charles
ton, Huntington, Wheeling, Clarks-
burg, Point Pleasant and several other
points is that there are number of
cases of genuine influenza. In this city
many are down with the disease. Gov
ernor Wilson and Secretary of State
Walker are among the afflicted. A
number of children have it. On the
Ohio side, just adjoining this city, there
are many cases. SO far there have been
no fatalities.
BERLIN, Jan, 4.-The influenza is bad
among the miners at Dortmund, and the
coal output is in consequence much re-
duced
MUNICH, Jan. 4.-The influenza pre-
walls to such an extent in this city that
1t has been found necessary to close the
schools.
PARIS, Jan. "A sudden change in
temperature has greatly increased the
number of cases and deaths from infiu
enza. The streets were deserted, the
theaters and cafes empty, and the shops
were closed two hours earlier Friday
evening than is the custom Few
wealthy people are left in the city and
those who are able are leaving the city
in haste.
NICE, Jan. 4.-The doctors Of the
Riviera are overwOrked attending pa
tents with influenza. Persons conva-
lescent with pulmonary maladies are
ready victims of the epidemic.
New YORK. Jan. 6.-The record of
deaths for the last week. prepared by
the sanitary bureau of the health
board. exhibits frlghtful increase of
mortality from pneumonia, bronchitis,
phthisis, and heart diseases, as well as
from influenza. More than thirty-nine
out of every 1000 people in New
York City persisted this week, max
ing grand total of registered
deaths exceeding 1000, against 763
n the preceding week. The average
number for the week corresponding to
last week during a series of years is
100. The epidemic with its yariou
com plications has in seven days made
clean sweep on its own account of about
370 people. But the deadly contributor
to these figures is insidious pneumonia.
The death-rate from this malady in
creased last week more than 40 per
cent. in New York.
In Newark the city mail delivery is
badly delayed because so many carriers
are attacked by influenza. Extra car
riers have been put on. Newburg, it
is stated has 1900 victims. Several
post-oftice employees have the influenza,
and all the newspaper Offices are short
handed on account of the malady. Ply
sicians say that nine-tenths of the cases
on their lists are those of persons suf-
fering with the prevailing disease.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 6.-The influenza
has taken firm grip on milwaukee,
For at least three or four days men and
women on every side and in every walk
Of life have been sneezing and coughing
and showing all the premonitory signs
of la grippe.
CHICAGO, Jan. 6. Within the past two
DAYS Russian influenza, or la grippe
which is epidemic in Chicago, has de-
veloped into far more pronounced and
dangerous type. Twenty persons are
afflicted in one house alone on the West
side Conservative estimates place the
number of afflicted in the city at 100000
The police and fire departments are suf-
fering from the ravagss of the malady;
fully 100 members of each are off duty
through sickness. Thousands of school
children are sick, a;Id it is likely that
not more than .wo-thirds of the full
number will be in attendance when the
schools reopen on Monday.
BosToN. Jan. 6.-The influenza and
erratic character of the weather have
wrought sad havoc the last week, as the
extraordinary death rate reported by
the Board of Health shows. The deaths
for the week in Boston number 34S,
nearly 100 greater than was ever
recorded before for similar
period The influenza has made
its effects felt in the increased
number of fatal cases of pneumonia,
bronchitis, consumption and heart dis
ease, it having served to intensity each
Of these diseases. Reports from all
parts of New England-even from the
drier climate of the mountains, in Yer
mont-show that the epidemic has laid
low thousands upon thousands of vic
tins.
BALTIMORE, Md. Jan. 6.-Two-thirds
of the students Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity have la grippe. The young men
from the far South are the quickest and
most seriously affected. Physicians say
the epidemic is now at its height
in Baltimore, and the total number of
cases is said to exceed $4,000. In some
uptown ueighborhoods every family in
every block is affected. Several fatal
cases of pneumonia and bronchitis,
traceable to influenza, have occurred
The negroes are the least affected. Many
physicians are victims.
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