Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-25
THE WORST is OVER.
Physicians Think the Backbone of
the Grip Is Nearly Broken.
MANY HAVE PROVED ITS VICTIMS.
The Death Rate in Pittsburg for March
Increasing 45 Per Cent.
SOME INTERESTING VITAL STATISTICS


relation to anybody. 1t is true that some,
broad chested and deep-lunged as horses,
ha We only very bad cold, but nearly all
who can afford it have the grip, and many
who can't, and most of them have it very
badly, though it is comforting 10 be assured
that the worst is about over for the present.
Th difference between a very bad cold
and the simon-pure grip is that when you
have the latter you feel as humble in spirit,
if not stirred up, as the mule, who has
neither pride Of ancestry or hope of poster
ity, and has descended in the social scale
until he draws an ash or slop cart for some
valetudinarian Senegambian. At the
same time he (the man, not the mule,) is
cross enough to whip his wife
or mother, if their ministrations do not
bring instant relief, or embrace his mother
in-law, if she can assuage his sufferings.
Only hope Of pecuniary reward or intense
parental love is sufficiently wide-gauged to
wait on an influenza patient with any de-
gree of cheerfulness.
Running Along With One Wheel.
Some of the courts were running with one
wheel yesterday, and there were few bust
ness houses that were not one or more short
of their ordinary complement of force. The
Masonic Bank was getting along as best it
could with five of its force hors du combat.
w hlle it did not show on tine streets as did
the epizootie of 1872, it only served to show
how much greater inconvenience loss OF
brute power causes than one of human.
1t is almost impossible to catch a physi-
clan in his office, and you must get
them on the fly and on the street if you
want any information from them. The hos
pitfalls are iull, and undertakers are taxed to
their wits end in attempting to accommo-
date and arrange times for sepulture. In
Pittsburg 434 deaths were reported up to
noon yesterday, and in Allegheny 149, and
by nightfall the total footed up over 700
fatalities in "a days, and the great bulk of
the fatalities during the last y hours have
been caused by the grip. Funerals are
smaller than they would be were the car
riage force of the livery stables greater. All
the hearses, black and white, have been in
constant requistion since Friday and COW
cred wagons are pressed into service in some
instances.
Some say the fat districts are the worst
inflicted, and doubtless this is largely true,
hut .here is sufficient sprinkling on the
hill-tops to keep the people of the heights in
line.
As Bad Along the Railroads.
Along the line Of railways leading out of
the city the situation is not much better,
showing thai the microbes are in the air and
not in the sewer gas. The trouble is CON-
plicated with all diseases of the respiratory
organs, and thole who have slight touch of |
pneumonia, catarrh, etc., are liable to have |
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fall easy victims to the com plication.
An enormous amount of whisky is being |
consumed, and it requires abou. three times |
as much of the stuff to make one comforta-
BILE as is the case in normal state Some
people are taking vast amount of quinine,
but had they had experience of thA drug in |
an ague district they would not use it so
recklessly. No matter how eficacious
the drug may be when properly used, q
veteran user from the swamps knows that
in certain conditions of the system its use
only aggravates the fever. The best plan is
to have doctor ami then follow his advice
and take the medicine as he prescribes it,
and last, but by no means least nurse your
self as carefully as possible. Many fatali-
ties have beer caused by persons going
abroad before their systems were properly
braced and catching fresh cold.
Some of the Recent Victims.
Among the well-knowl victims is Henry
Sutm.yer, who died at his home, No. 6
Resaca street, Allegheny, at O'Clock yes
terday morning. Mr.. Sutmeyer was a
wealthy clothier. A month ago he
donated property at Laurel sta
ton Fort Wayne railway, valued
at 900 to, be used as a home for the
widows and orphans of the /. o. o. F. Like
the majority of victims where the termina-
ton is fatal, Mr.. Sutmeyer was we'll stricken
in years, nearly up to the three score and
ten mark.
Judge Brown B. Chamberlain, of Beaver
county, and for many years resident OF
New Brighton, died at the Home for Aged
Men at Williamsburg, from pneumonia, the
result of an attack of grip. He had been i'll
about week, and had been in the institu-
ton about three years as boarder. The
deceased was very well known in Beaver
county, where for many years he was one of
the shining lights OF the bar of that county,
and was identified with the industrial pro-
gress of the county up until few years
ago.
Thomas D. Messler, Third Vice President
of the Pennsylvania Company, is on his
back at his residence at Shadyside, and it is
The real influenza. G. D. Turner of Al
egheny, employed in Superintendent Turn
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Louis Railway, and E. L. Covert, of the
iame office, are quite ill. The list of we'll
Known people who are knocked out at pres
mt might be extended to half a column.
DR.. G. c. Wiley, of Penn avenue, said
here was fully five times as much of the
disease in the city at present as he had ever
Known before.
The Worst Probably Over.
DR.. j. II. Thompson, of the same avenue,
aid the worst was probably over. He liked
he appearance of the weather yesterday
It has been q poor time to 60 shopping,
is so many salesladies and statesmen have
,een knocked out, and those remaining
yere not in good condition to stand chat
ing. At Horne's drygoods stores % clerks
we're sick and off duty at one time.
Even in the Liquor License Court the
avages of the break-bone scourge were ap-
parent, though all the applicants save one
we're able to stagger up to the bar and speak l
heir piece, and it is said the missing mans
lame would be Dennis, anyhow, if he had
,een ON hand. This shows a triumph of
plrit over matter
Among the Northside sneezers who are
'ainly tossing with aching bones these
tights are Hon. J. L. Graham and Delin-
Iuent Tax Collector Grer. Assistant
Assessor Stewart is on his pins again after q !
veek of. ,
Great Increase in the Death Rate.
The Board of Health vital statistics for
he month, to date, show an increase of :
early 45 per cent over the average number of
eaths during corresponding periods of for .
ner years. During the seven days ending
darch 81 the total number of deaths was d
81, as com pared with 81 during the corre- q
ponding period of 1882 OF the deaths there f
Fere 45 in the Old city, % in the East End, {
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