Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-05

weather of last Sunday and Monday. which
was clear and warm, in my mind, did much
to stop the progress of the disease. Such
weather again will have the same effect, and
that is what is wanted. In Lawrenceville
to-day / found two new cases, but have
not heard of any elsewhere for several days.
The doctor was asked if he did not think
the excitement over the grip had been
the cause of great many deaths. He re-
piled that among nervous people there had
no doubt been a considerable death rate that
could be directly traceable to over excite
ment. But" he continued, "while the
grip has been epidemic there has been in
nv practice but little excitement, not as
much as could have been naturally ex-
pected. Had it been smallpox or scarlet
fever there would have been q rush from
town, and still the grip has proved itself to
be as deadly as either.
Good for the Druggists.
Quinine was in demand yesterday. The
proprietor of Penn avenue drug store said
that it would only require another day of
such weather to run up the sales as high as
they were in the last week of March. The
sales had increased yesterday, but not to
anv great extent. The callers were mostly
those who were suffering from colds and
who had the fear of the grip.
effects of the grip, remarked that it showed
features this year that were not observable
when it paid its first visit. 1t seemed now
to affect the nervous system in a variety
OF unusual ways, such as pains in the
back and the head and a general depression.
His opinion was that it did not so surely
follow colds as last year, but seems to fol.
low the murky weather The trouble has
been and is, insisted the doctor, that people
have thought lightly of their colds, believ
ing that they would wear themselves out,
and then the natural result came, affection
of the lungs. The part of mans anatomy
most subject to weather influences, the lungs,
have been neglected.
The report of physicians to the Bureau of
Health yesterday up to o'clock showed
only two deaths from the grip. They were
those of John c. Fleister, aged II years, of
$40 Lowell street, who was sick two weeks
and the cause of whose death is given as
grip. The other is that of Michael D.
Guzias, % years, of 1908 Murial street, the
cause of death being given as congestion of
the lungs.
Some Deaths From Friday.
Yesterday the following cases were re-
ported as having occurred on April g. in
addition to those published in yesterdays
paper: Christ Kufelt, aged SO years,
Bouquet street, died of the grip, secondary
cause pneumonia; Bridget Smith, aged &c
wears, an inmate of the Home of the Little
Sisters of the Poor, died from influenza,
preceded by pneumonia; Xavier Loeffier,
aged 73 years, 172 Thirty-ninth street,
pneumonia; Martha NJ. Mekolen, 1 year
old, pneumonia; Noah T. Crime, 20 years
old, 1904 Miffiin street, pneumonia; Mar
guerite Kennedy, 3 months old, pneumonia.
Nearly all these cases are directly due to
the prevailing epidemic.
The report of the Bureau of Health for
the week ending March % shows a total Of
211 deaths. In the classification, IA cages
are credited to epidemic influenza, or grip.
The cases that are allied to grip, either by
following or preceding that disease, are as
follows: pneumonia, %; bronchitis, 16;
asthma, 2; Group /, and laryngitis, 1. The
cases of consumption numbered IS; cerebro-
spinal fever, 6; meningitis, 4; typhoid fever,
z; scarlet fever, l; whooping cough, 3;
measles, .; convulsions, s; heart disease, 6;
perltonitis, 4; Brights disease, 8; old age,
s. or the total death list, 90 persons were
between 20 and so years. 13 between so and
80, and between 80 and 100.
The number of deaths in Allegheny last
Saturday night is reputed at lis, greater
number than for any week since the Office
has been opened. The majority of these
cases are believed to be directly traceable to
the grip. The cemeteries in Allegheny,
Pittsburg proper and the Southside show
figures of interments that surpass ANYTHING
ever known in Allegheny county. The un-
dertakers are continuing to take a partial
rest but the weather OF yesterday it is