The sun., 1918-10-10

toned the fact personally soted By the
reporter. that when crowds ;trS 70 get
north OF the theatre district around
midnight the West side subway trains
are 30 shortened that. as usual, the
cars are TANNED TO the limit Of standing
room.
On. Monday night, for instance. audi
ences coming from the theatres which,
under the Health Departments rulings
open at p. M.--the crowds getting
Into the street from this particular
group OF theatres at II 80 instead Of
the normal hour Of IL p. M.--found
shortened express trains going north
from Times Square and therefore
crowded to the gun'is.
How InterberouEh "Helps."
When the trampled folk changed at
express stops to the north they found.
after Incredibly long waits, that local
trains consisting OF only three cars
came into sight, the subway manage
ment In other words. so regulating
It's tranic that the cars always would
be choked with n capacity crowd Of
standees. thus multiplying. the efforts of
the Health Department to get the the
atre audiences home without undue
crowding.
BY the plan OF calling upon the fourth
year medical students to help with Crap
ping the nurse problem about $50
nurses. all men. will be- added to the
hospital nursing forces OF the city to-
day. Dean Samuel Lambert of the Col
lege Of Physicians and Surgeons will
send nifty. of his senior students to Or.
Copeland this morning. and these will
be assigned TO the cases at the Munici-
pal Lodging House. 49,.
In the absence OF Dean Samuel A.
Brown OF the Bellevue and New York
University medical department Chan
ceuor Elmer s. Brown yesterday prom
ieed sixty-nve students. who will be as
signed to Bellevue Hospital Dean Jo-
seph Byrne Of Fordham University med
icai department will send sixty to the
wards Of Fordham and Harlem hospitals.
Dean Thomas ]. Preston, successor to
Dr. Copeland as head of Flower Hospital
medical College. promises thirty stu
oen,s this=mornlng, who will be assigned
70 the Metropolitan Hospital, and Dean
Otto v. Huffman OF the Long island
college Hospital will send out twenty
nVe students. who will nurse in the
wards OF the Kingston Avenue Hospital
All OF these medical students will work
under the direction OF graduate nurses.
from the medical colleges named will
also come members of the faculties. who
VIII nave charge OF the medical treat
ment or the cases nursed by their stu
dents. ''' ''u'
Many Cases Not Reportea.
Judging by the comparative number
or Deaths" Dr. Copeland said last night
doctors are reporting cases fairly well.
~. ~. Is our opinion that. considering
ene totai number OF cases from the be-
shnins or the epidemic t17.712 cases,
including yesterdays report1. there nave
been more cases than have been re-
ported. It should be remembered, how
ever: mat we have had to include in the
death list OF New York city deaths
among the uniformed men Of the ser
vice. not only soldiers about TO debarr
but sailors which we have removed from
ships In the harbor.
1T must be admitted frankly that
there are more cases In the city than
the reports Indicate" continued DR.,
copeland. after talking Of the tendency
70 DIAGNOSE coryza with slight tempera-
ture influenza. though the number here
Is not nearly 90 great as in practicaIiv
every other community.
yesterday Surgeon General Blue said
that before the epidemic in any locality
reaches Its height 1t will affect from 40
10 ~ per cent. Of the total population
which would mean more than 1000 600
cases here. 1t is probable that we have
not yet reached the peak of infection
mere and that for several days there
may be a gradual increase In cases but
we are hopeful that there will he moth
ing like the sudden leap that has been
experienced In every other community"
Increase OF 427 Cases.
A total OF 1880 new cases OF IN.
nuenxa In the city was reported for the
twenty-four hours ended at 10 A. NJ
Yesterday. as compared with 2,5O3 for
the preceding similar period. or an in.
crease OF AT cases.
A total of 212 new cases OF pneumonia
was reported during the same time, "a
against 2s2 on Tuesday, or a decrease of
seventy cases. VI
The total number OF deaths from in.
huenza was reported as 124, as COM
pared to 1913 Oh Tuesday, a decrease Of
nine deaths, The number OF deaths
from pneumonia reported yesterday was
l66, as against 1879 the day before. or
decrease Of twenty-three deaths from
pneumonia.
The following figures show by bor-
oushs the condition OF the influenza epi-
demic and the pneumonia situation YES
terday. as compared to conditions on
Tuesday: "