St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-12
La GRIPPE is EPIDEMIC.
ATTACKS THE THROAT WITH SUFF0-
cA7IVE EFFECT
VERY MILD IN CHARACTER.

Good Many People Frustrated in
st. Paul, But More in Mime
apolis-No Fatalities Here
Officers and Soldiers at Fort
Smelling Down With the Dis
ease.
La grippe is again epidemic in St.
Paul. but i'll the widest form yet seen
here. The majority of cases are of a
type different from the endemic Of
three years ago. DR.. Talbot Jones said
yesterday:
II do not think la grippe is so preya-
lent as III 1890: but there are good
many cases in the city. III the cases L
have observed the disease falls chiefly
upon the throat, with construction or
spasm of the throat muscles, producing
Suffocative attacks which are often
quite alarming. The type of the cpl
deinlc OF three years ago was different.
The disease then caused aching of the
muscles and bones. In all the various
types of the complaint there is a great
tendency toward complications, such as
pneumonia, bronchitis, inflammation
around the heart. etc. 1t leaves the
patient in a Frustrated condition for
weeks, and recovery in many cases IS
very slow. However. it sometimes hap
pens that a person will suffer an attack
of only three or four days duration and
recover quickly"
DR.. Hoyt's observation Of cases of la
grippe varied somewhat from DR..
Jones'. He SAID:
This epidemic is the mldest form of
la grippe | have seen. 1t is more diSa-
greeable than dangerous. A good many
patients are on the streets attending to
business. In many of the eases L have
observed the disease causes inflamma-
ton of the bowels ond neau5ea of the
stomach. The febrile conditions are
not so intense as in former ep!demics.
/ have not seen case i'll which the
temperature rose above l02. In the
epidemic of three years ago the tenn
perature generally rose to 106 and some
times higher.
DR.. SenkIer said:
The epidemic of la grippe is mild in
character. However, every type Of the
disease is in the city. | know of cases
of muscular pain, attacks of the stomach
and bowels, also attacks of the throat;
but the bronchial type is the most uni
versal. A large share of the cases are
BID mild as TO bs no more than ordinary
influenza. However, the winter is only
begun, and before it is over the epidemic
may become more serious in form and
extent"
Another prominent physician who
would not be quoted by name said:
Il doubt that there are many cases of
genuine la grippe in the city. Ordinary
Influenza is epidemic. but / do not
think this should be called la grippe.
OF course. la grippe is influenza: but it
Is that and more. Ordinary influenza
does not give rise to the complications
which generally attend la grippe.
There are a few cases of genuine la
grippe In st. Paul; and, Of course, there
may be more of them than [ am aware
of. In any event, there is plenty of
time for a serious development of the
complaint.''
A good many other physicians were
interviewed on the subject; but the
foregoing interviews are representa-
tive of the general talk, and sufficient
to give clear idea of the endemic.
The health department says that no
fatalities have resulted from the cpl
Gemic. From various sources it is
learned that good many people are
Frustrated with la grippe: but the dis
ease is not nearly so prevalent in st.
Paul as in Minneapolis. At Fort Smell
Ing good many of the officers and SOL
diers are afflicted, number of whom
are Frustrated.