The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-08
Character of the Influenza in Franco

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. I
PARIS, Jan. THE character of the in
fiuenza which is now prevailing in Paris is
shown by statement of DIR. DuJardin
Deaumitz who said to-day the influenza is
working sad havoc in the north and south
and west especially. The Paris hospitals
contain numerous cases and have had to
double the number of beds The average
weekly mortality in the city is 900, while
during the last week Of December il
reached total Of LOO. Aged people and
those given TO alcoholic induleepces are
the most susceptible to the disease, the best
remedies for which are quinine and antipv-
rlpe. influenza is contagious but is not
due TO mlcrobe and Prof. Pfeiffer will
probably be able to prove no more than the
savants who have already been looking for
the influenza baccili.
Influenza is very general in Touluse and
WORK at the public offices has been brought
almost to a standstill by it, although no
serious cases have as yet been reported to
the authorities.
At Montpelier mortality from influenza
has increased during the course of the past
six days and the average daily death rate
has been z, although on Monday the
list Of fatalities from this cause included
IL cases. The fatal cases have SO far.
however, been confined TO elderly people
and invalids.
SINCE December last the mortality has
assumed considerable proportions at Bou-
logne-sur-Mer and the daily death rate has
risen from an average OF to Z, while in
December % twelve fatal cases were re-
ported.
The doctors who have been studying the
matter say that the people who suffered
from influenza IL 1890 now enjoy immunity
from contagion. The sub-prefect read a
letter to-day from the government school
master at Nesles, in which he said that all
the inhabitants in his commune were down
with influenza and asked for medicine To
relieve the sufferers.
AS yet there has been no trace of infiu
enzs at Pau. AT Cherbourg a sudden
change of temperature has caused a CORE
fponding change in influenza, which has
lost its mild character and is now sepsibly
adding te the death rate. The convent of
La Bucailoe is particularly unfortunate
three nuns having died, ana the school at,
tached TO the convent has been shut IN and
Che school disbanded.
The mortality at Marseilles shows an
alarming increase, amounting to 25 per
cent. daily. This high rate is due to infiu-
enza. and the authorities are very much
disturbed. The newspapers print daily
dispatches from the surrounding towns
showing that the disease is equally as had
everywhere in the neighborhood
influenza has been raging at Arrass for
some time past and throughout the Pas de
Calais. In the town results have been
worse among school boys, and in fact the
schools generally have been closed within
the past two weeks. The garrison has ali
suffered greatly, and a number of the old
pensioners have died.
The villages of Melville and Saint Vast
have suffered more severely than arv
others, and the cases of grip occurring
therein have generally been fatal.
At Bethune, Lena and LEVIN the havoc
has been very great on account of the
crowded condition of the population in
these places, while in Hesdin two weeks