The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-24
SPREAD OF THE GRIP.
The Disease Getting In Its Work In
n Mild Form.

The Disease Getting In Its Work In
q Mild Form.
Where grip is numbering its victims by
the thousands in New York it is Selling
them by the scores in Savannah. There
is really little epidemic of mild form
of the disease here, which shows that Sa-
vannah is not at all behind the times in
matter of popular pubic ills, any more
than in evidence of wide-awakeness in
other regions of activity.
The grip here is fortunately Of type
that does not confine those suffering from
it to bed for any long period, or bring
upon them the acute sufferings. or the
after evil results that are understood TO
mark the epidemic in more Northern lat-
tudes Cold weather seems TO aggravate
the disease, and the severity of the
weather in New York this winter is prob
ably considerably responsible for It's rapid
spread and the serious effects. In Sayan-
nah there had been sporadic cases for
some time. but il has only been quite re-
Gently that the number of cases became
so numerous and so widespread as to jus
tify the assertion that Savannah was
keeping thoroughly abreast OF her sister
cities and could boast that she, too, was
being recognized by the European invader
have been met on all sides and there have
been some woeful tales of the aching
bones and heads and sneezing and cough
ing that marked the disease. As a rule,
those seized with the grip here have been
either kept in bed but two or three days.
or have been able to get about and per-
form their usual duties while holding the
grip down by the aid of quinine and other
drugs until it left them feeling somewhat
hrtf II har-
there has been one who has been laid up
there have probably been two who have
not succumbed and who have merely
known that they fe.t as miserable as they
looked.
Doctors have been kept busy looking af-
ter those who yielded to the desire to lie
down forever and give up the fight of life
unless grip could be annihilated as one of
the ills OF human flesh. The disease has
come on just as quickly and just as IN
pleasantly as on its former visits here. A
pain in the head, all kinds of aches in
the body a stomach that refused to re-
ceive or retain comfort feeling of abso-
lutte disregard as 10 whether life was brief
or not, an altogether miserable indiffer-
ence to the promised joys of Christmas
tide-these have been it's symptoms Be
tween sneezing and blowing grumbling
and growing, fretting and aching swal-
lowing nauseating doses and turning away
from tempting tdbiis from loving hands.
there is dim consciousness that a s every
body is having it in some degree or an
other no one can especially sympathize
with You in your sufferings from the grip.
But, fortunately, the cases here have Is
q rule yielded readily to treatment up TO
this time Colder weather may tend to
aggravate the disease and in addition 10
increasing the number Of cases make them
of a somewhat more uronprpaa.5 fI-Do r,,,+
there is hardly any probability of Savan-
nah knowing what the real grip. that from
which the North is suffering. really is.
There is an unpleasant imitation of il here
but the genuine article is reserved for the
North.