The sun., 1918-09-27
INFLUENZA CANCELS
ENTERTAINMENT PLANS
Maj.-Gen. Crowder Counter
+ mands Order for October
10 Movement.
$3.50 NEW CASES IN DAY
Additional Deaths Total ITO,
Mostly From Pneumonia
- Following Attack.

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Because OF epidemics OF Spanish in
flucnzs in army camps Provost Marshall
General Crowder last night cancelled
calls for the entrainment between Oc-
= tober 7 and II OF 1870 draft regis
..tttrants.
During the twenty-four hours ended
ut noon yesterday s.13s new cases OF
influenza in army camps had been re-
-,ported to the office OF the .Surgeon-Gen-
iseral in Washington. One hundred and
seventy deaths. resulting chiefly from
pneumonia following Influenza, and 723
y,1iew cases of pneumonia also were re-
- ported.
ens Cancellation OF the eutrainment or
% ders to the $4,000 men ordered to the
various camps includes 10000 New
York selectives ordered to Camp Wads.
.trworth, 2,4S7 New Jersey men ordered
to Camp Dix and 1,7Io Connecticut
men ordered to Camp Greenleaf.
Two camps. Kearney, California. and
! Eustis, Virginia, were added yesterday
. to the list where influenza has made APP
, pearance, leaving only thirteen camps
free from the disease. The total number
placed at 35,148. with 3.036 cases of
:. pne omonia- One ou. of every four men
eat Camp Devens. Mass., has contracted
influenza, II was announced. and 10 per
s,cent. of the cases nave developed into
pneumonia.
Conditions More Encouraging.
- In cancelling the call for the en-
trainment of the draft registrants early
nxtyIa tai
instructions from Gen. March, Chief OF
STAFF.
Reports in general yesterday were en-
S'couraging. Fewer new cases developed
and those which did appear seemed less
?. virulent, except in and around Boston.
~ Boston, however, has become so over
.. run with the epidemic that its citizens
have appealed for Federal aid. Con-
sress may bs asked to act Liberty
nsLoan parades scheduled for the week
have been cancelled All theatres,
moving picture houses, shows, dance
halls land other unnecessary gathering
places were ordered to close from mid
night last night until October 6.
e Already schools had been closed.
10 Other towns in Massachusetts where
the epidemic has ragged but which are
now described as being in an 'en-
.ascouraging condition" decided to follow
1.-THE lead OF Boston and close public
assembly places They are Lawrence
!. Lynn, New Bedford, Holyoke. Fall
, River and Wakefield, which decided to
S'tclose It's churches as we'll until further
notice" Quincy had 5000 cases Of in
nuenza, but with the assistance of naval
physicians every case has receiver
medical attention and the number now
il decreasing.
Calls situation Alarming.
nr E,vena p Kellev Massachusetts
Health Commissioner. after appealing TO
the Federal authorities for nurses and
doctors to help fight the disease that
has made many of Bostou's medical
- profession i'll later telegraphed to State
congressman asking them to use their
influence with the authorities to secure
aid.
The influenza and pneumonia sit
uation In Boston and generally through
r. out Massachusetts Is very serious, DIT.
Kelley telegraphed. deaths are In
ereasing at an alarming rate and Gov
- eminent war projects in the State are
seriously retarded. Many of our doc
tors and nurses are Ill Federal as
sstance is necessary for adequate med
ical relief and sanitary control. A CO.
force OF doctors and nurses
from the Public Health Service, army
Is navy and Red Cross for a short period
!. Of emergency service appears the only
Oh CltaHCe lOT HcGtSSdiy aSSlstahNc- Fi'o
II hundred doctors and 1000 nurses in
I. addition to those within the State are
N vitality needed at once Earnestly re-
" quest you to urge Surgeon-Generals
Il Blue. Gorgas and BREASTED and the d.
Il rector OF the Red Cross to send doctors
and nurses to cooperate with State and
\ local health officials and hasten, by
Z, Congressional action II necessary, max
* ing the force needed available"
&. Col. Allan ]. Mclaughlin of the Public
Health Service at Washington said that
II representatives from the Public Health
III Service would start for Massachusetts
4, at once. but not a physician from the
army or navy could be spared.
y Two Naval Omcers Dead.
&. Among the fifty deaths reported from
A. influenza and pneumonia from 10 o'clock
" Wednesday night TO noon Thursday In
" Boston were those OF two naval officers
!, Commander Hugh Brown. executive COM
mander of a battleship. and DR.. John
III Lee Fisher, a Junior grade Lieutenant
sl of the Medical Corps, died at the Chelsea
" Naval Hospital. Commander Brown was
III the son OF Rear Admiral George Brown.
N Springfield reported thirty-three cases
III of influenza, half of which were among
NJ guards stationed at the Ordnance De-
II partment assembly depot. No cause for
I alarm was felt
~ portland, Me-, reported total or JUV
III cases in the city since the disease be-
came prevalent. Four nurses died from
st. Gov. Milliken announced yesterday
III that there was no cause for alarm and
t.that all precautionary measures would
be left to local health authorities.
-. More than a thousand cases and thirty
resulting deaths have been reported
from Berlin. N. II. Local physicians
appealed to the Manchester authorities
for aid yesterday. A relief party was
sent.
Burlington, VT. reported that meas
ures had been taken to prevent the dis
case from attacking the soldiers at Fort
Ethan Allen. very few cases have de-
veloped In and about Burlington.
Sixty students are under medical care
at Middlebury College. The first death
occurred there yesterday.
Low mt Great Lakes Station.
The latest figures from Capt. will
lam A. Moffett. commandant OF the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station,
Great Lakes. Illinois. emphasizes that
the epidemic is not severe. The death
rate in the station has been less than
l per cent, and even this is declining.