Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-26
NOW IN 26 STATES
FIVE THOUSAND NEW CASES IN ARMY CAMPS WEDNESDAY WITH 1855 DEATHS REPORTED TO OFFICE OF SURGEON GEN ERAL YESTERDAY
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.
 Spanish influenza has spread
 over the country so rapidly that
 officials of the public health ser
 vice, war and navy departments
 and Red Cross conferred today
 on measures to help local con-
 munities in combating the disease.
 Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the public health service, said tonight that latest reports showed that the malady made it's appearance in twenty-siX states from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The disease is epidemic in New Eng land. where it first made its appear ance- Influenza has appeared on the Pacific coast. in Washington and Cali fOrnia, but is not yet epidemic there. It also has been reported in Minnesota and Iowa, but with few cases. East of the Mississippi, however, there are few states where it has not been found.
 The disease continued to spread to- day in army camps, 5324 new cases being reported to the office of the sur geon general of the army up to noon.
 The total reported from the camps today was the largest in any one day and brought the total for all camps to LOOP cases. The number of pneumonia cases reported among the soldiers since the outbreak of the influenza epidemic September 1S, is 2313 and the number of deaths since that date is 530 with 155 reported today.
 For the first time since the outbreak the number of new cases reported from Camp Devens, Mass, was lowe< than the number reported from any other camp.
 The new cases at Camp Devens num- bered S99, making the total 1I,715. Hoboken reported the greatest num- Der, 1925. This, however, inclpded sew eral camps and depots.
 Camp Dix, N J., reported sos new cases, the largest from a single camp, while Camp Lee, Va, had 393 new cases. Other camps reporting new cases were Logan, Texas, 2O5; Sevier, s. C., 106; Syracuse, N. r., 149: Fun ston, Kas., 135; Gordon, Ga, 21S; Grant, Ills, 293; Humphrey, Va, 1O6; Jackson, s. C., 26S; Lewis, Wash, 24; Meade, Md, POS; Pike, Ark, 2S9; Ty- Ter, Ky, 43; Upton, N. Y, 101, and miscellaneous camps and posts, 551 Other camps reported from one 10 four new cases.
 At Camp Devens 342 new cases of pneumonia were reported today with 72 deaths. Camp Dix reported fl new cases of pneumonia and Camp Lee S9. Pneumonia cases also were reported by 2S other camps.
 EMERGENCY HEALTH BOARD
 BOSTON, Sept. 25.-Alarmed by the rapidly mounting death toll in New England fram Spanish influenza. Mas sachusetts, the center of the epidemic in the east. today began a concerted effort to stamp out the disease. The executive council is in special session, and has set aside a fund of S1OO,OOO and acting Governor Coolidge immedi- ately created an emergency public health committee.
 The first step taken by this com mittee was to call on the American Red Cross at Washington for physi- cians and nurses to take the places of those who have died or who have been exhausted by their arduous work The committee then sent out a statewide request for the temporary closing of all theaters, motion picture houses and other places of public gathering, except churches. Cancellation of all parades planned for the immediate flu. ture was included in the request
 A suggestion that met with con- siderable favor was that the 5000 school theaters in this city be asked to volunteer as assistant nurses.
 The state health commission tonight recommended that specialists who could temporarily give tip their prac. tice should register with the state
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