New-York tribune., 1918-10-25
Reports Show Reduction in
Average Daily Increase
ia City
Workers in Several
Plants Vaccinated
President of Interborough
Says Air Is Better in
Subway Than Street

New influenza cases reported yester-
day numbered 4,403, decrease Of 9S7
from Wednesdays record. This is
looked upon by Commissioner Copeland
as further indication of decline in the
epidemic
Sanitary experts of the country al
ready arc predicting return of the
epidemic in the spring, DR.. Copeland
says, and he recommends the extensive
use of the preventive vaccine. which,
he believes, will increase the safety of
hose inoculated.
The Consolidated Gas Company and
the New York Edison Company each
nave been supplied with vaccine for
1900 employees.
Seven saloons in Richmond Borough
nave been closed by the Board Of
Health because of unsanitary condi-
lions. The same action has been taken
sgainst score of soda fountains in all
parts of the city.
A delegation from Staten Island con-
ferred with DR.. Copeland yesterday on
Epidemic conditions there. The Com
missioner says he does not contemplate
altering his programme.
Emergency Physicians
The Academy of Medicine has fur
lished the Health Department with a
list of doctors who have volunteered
or emergency work. Hospital condi-
lions continue to improve. DR.. Cope
and says the figures to date show the
highest mortality from the epidemic is
among persons between twenty and
torty years old.
Manhattan reported 1,716 new infu-
cnza cases yesterday; The Bronx,
57o; Brooklyn, 1927; Queens, 294,
and Richmond, 1873. Manhattan's
deaths numbered 1871: The Bronx, AZ;
Brooklyn, 1853; Queens, 43, and Rich
mond, IA.
New pneumonia cases in Manhattan
totalled sos; The Bronx, 269: Brook
lyn, Sc; Queens, 90, and Richmond, 25.
Manhattan reported LAP deaths from
pneum onia; The Bronx. 107; Brooklyn,
10; Queens, %, and Richmond, s.
The days epidemic fatalities were
ninety-two fewer than in the preceding
twenty-four hours.
Subway Air Defended
A letter received by Commissioner
Copeland from Theodore =. Shonts,
president of the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company, declares bacteriolog-
ical tests prove the air Of the subway
to be freer Of germs than the air Of
the streets.
Travel has been reduced per cent
on subways and elevated lines and IL
per cent on surface cars by the epi-
demic, according to the Public Service
yrhi SfCr H1Io
discontinued the fans operated in the
subweys.
The first landlord to be arrested un-
der the new provision of ;the sanitary
code making failure to furnish heat in
homes misdemeanor is Louis Schlec-
Ter, the owner of $40 West 144th Street.
Samuel j. Haas, tenant in the build
ing, made the complaint. Magistrate
Charles w. Appleton will hear the case
o-day in the Municipal Court at IL
o'clock.
A decrease in the epidemic in New
Jersey is reported, and the State De-
partmert of Health has authorized the
fitting OF the quarantine at W esttield,
Union County, and Northampton, Bur
,ington County.
George W. Herbert, his wife and in
ant daughter, all victims of influenza,
we're buried at Port Chester, n. y
yesterday. me remaining chlld or the
family is seriously i'll. The night su-
pervisor of the United Hospital at Port
Chester, Miss Laurette Swartz, died
yesterday of pneumonia
Decline Is Expected
According to figures compiled by the
Health Department the fifth week of
the influenza epidemic through which
New York is now passing marks high
tide. The sixth week, it is believed, will
show a big decline in new cases and
deaths.
Philadelphia, with an. average death
rate of twelve per thousand of popula-
tion prior to the epidemic, climbed to
loS per thousand last week, but the
disease is believed to be "burning out"
there. Boston's average death rate was
thirteen for four weeks before infiu-
enza appeared In the fifth week Of
the epidemic there were 101 deaths per
thousand The sixth week showed a
jrop Of tlfty-two.
I'm New York the average prc-
epidemic mortality figure was ten per
thousand. The first week this went to
welve, the second week to sixteen.
'hlrd week TO twenty-nine, and last
week to fifty. This record is far below
that Of any of the larger cities of the
country where records are obtainable.
Table Of Death Rates
A table of death rate per thousand
rom all causes during the epidemic in
Averages death
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