Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-26
YOU SNEEZE AND SNEEZE.
the Grip. and In Nine out of ten
Chances he ts Right.

the Grip. and In Nine out of ten
Chances he Is Right.
The grip, or influenz, is getting in its
work in Rock Island pretty effectuslly.
and nearly every other person one meets
on the street is going to or has ja5t come
from doctors Office or drng store where
he got dose Of something to aid. or
rather to check. his disease. In Chicago
1t prevails to such an extent as to seri-
ously interfere with business The Tri-
bune says:
There has been more Illness among the
Chicago hotel men and taeir guests DUR
ing the last two weeks than ever before
known. Fifteen days ago the grip began
TO creep into the hosJelrles and last week
at four of the big hotels fully one third
of the guests were i'll. The managers
and clerks did not escape. Some of the
guests upon learning that they would be
confined TO their beds for sometime, were
sent at their request to the county and
and other city hospitals. At the county
institution the patients were compelled
to accept accommodations on the floor,
as all the cots have been occupied for
sometime. DR.. Mcnamara. of the hospi-
tai staff, who treats most of the
grip patients IN the big wards,
was at the Leland hotel yesterday visiting
one of the sick guests. The doctor said
forty persons suffering with the grip were
admitted to the hospital yesterday, aud
forty>seven the day previous. The grip
has caused the present over crowded con-
GitiOn of the hospital" said DR.. McNa-
mara, land if it continues 10 attack the
people ot Chicago and the travellers as
vigorously as during The last two weeks,
We shall be compelled to place cots IN the
Railways as vel as on the floor, sm
afraid. About thirty per cent of the
grip cases prove fatal" But the grip is
not confined to the hotels. 1t does not
appear to be res pecter Of persons. The
residents of Dearborn avenue and the ten
ants of Canal street alike suffer from its
rsvsges. There is scarcely boarding
house in the city. it is said, but has from
one to three or four persons laid up with
the grip. and factories and stores are
working shot of help because of its pre-
valence among the employees. The hos
pitfalls are crowded and the doctors are
kept busy night and day. At the county
hospital yesterday almost fifty persons
suffering from the grip applied for ad.
mission. The warden is considerably
worried as to what he will do for room
if tue applications for admission con-
tlnue at the present rate. Superin-
teadent Crawford, of the west side
street car system. said that 500 of his
men were laid off with the epidemic, and
that he was badly handicapped for help.
Chief OF Police Marsh has it, and Assis>
tant Superintendent Brennan has lust re-
ported for duty after a weeks attack
The IRE department is short about so
men on account of the scourge Many
of the banks aud commission houses at
the stock yards are ruuing on a short al
lowance OF clerks and book keepers
Forty-six out of III mail carriers and of
80 clerks in the postof1ce eight are in bed
with the grip. One in five of j. V. Far
wei! & Cos employees are suffering from
the disease. while Two per cent of the en-
ployes in the wholesale and three per cent
in the retail department of j. II. Walk
er & Cos dry goods store have it. In
the wholesale house of Marshall Field
q Co., five per cent of the help are af-
fiicted.
The worlds fair people have been hav,
ing little more than their share. Among
others Direct or. General Davis, Secretary
Dickinson, President Palmer. Vice Pres
ident Mckenzie. Secretary Sawyer, of the
buildings and grounds comnitte. and
about oDe-third of the directors are
either victims or Oh the convalescent list