Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-10
AVERAGE deaf" RATE
MANY Times GREATER
Mortality Figures for Fifty Leading
Cities Show Increases OF From
-Four to Seven Points.
BOSTON APPEARS HARDEST HIT
Disease Now Exists In All Parts OF
the World, According to Informa-
tion Received by Public Health
Service Officials.
BOSTON APPEARS HARDEST HIT

WASHINGTON, Ostober e.-As a di-
rect result of influenza and its i'm
mediate complications. tho average
weekly death rate OF a majority of the
cities o: the country is from two TO
three times as high as normally
In the New England district the in
crease runs as high as four to seven
ra,e ;,nes for me ,h avessge se %eekiy mortslity
puted by the United States Census Eu-
reau. Curiously enough. New York and
Chicago Chicago show steH smaller percentage of
The mortality figures for nifty of
the leading cities of the country for
the latest weekly. period. as builetined
thentic indication of the range and
death toll OF the epidemic among the
civilian population.
They represent the ratio OF deaths
per thousand estimated population per
year obtaining during the weekly per-
iod covered in the reports. as COM
pared with the ratio obtaining in the
corresponding weekly periods for tho
hve previous years.
sos,on's death rate jumped from an
average ratio of 1f.1 for the CORES
pondinS weekly periods OF the five
previous years TO ratio of 1902 dur
ing the influenza week. on which sta
iistics were compiled. This amounts
to 500 per cent increase. The rates
il other New England citica show al
most as high percentages of increase.
present rate lS $50,
comnarcd 10 an average of l2.7; Lowell
advanced from an average of 1873 to
81. per thousand.
The death rate OF New Haven and
since the beginning of the epidemic.
The, present weekly rate OF Providence
is also three times as great as in nor
NAL conditions.
New York's death toll for the week
anG as d0mpn'ee mer es, at rate Of les per thous
Il ffSr- 4 " .,xi
Ing weekly periods for the past FIVE
years.
aohf Ths ID rate II Jersey City more than
mond and Nashville. Washington's and
Philadelphia's rate has trebled
WIN new cases or influenza in Wash.
day. Federal and local authorities
are making supreme effort to check
epscrsS ehs ma'ady aaooo Today the severnmen,
war workers whose employment eS.
poses them to Infection
Even outdoor meetings, including
loan rallies. are now prohibited. and
the closed public school houses have
been turned over TO the United States
lshment of medical relief stations The
restriction as to church services are
now applied to weddings and funerals.
sai;, The constant mt stream Of visitors daily
missions connected with the war from
all sections of the country increases
the danger Of eontagion and the DIM
The Federal authorities who have
been asked to suspend the incoming OF
additional clerks from out Of town
have answered III such a step Sould
be OF questiona' 'alue, as practi-
cally every State country is suf-
ferinS In rarEin: &c from the dis
ease and the vi activities de-
mand uninterru.: communication
with all parts of lhc country
The State Department announced that
the IN ali fpase ssns o has the mass ord is
formation received to-day indicated
outbreaks in Lisbon, Cape Town and
Pernambucco, Brazil.
though the present. epidemic is called
son to belieye that It originated in
lie Health. lie adds that Some some writ
ers believe the epidemic came from the
the fact that the Germans mention the
disease as occurring along the eastern
front in the summer and fall Of 1917.
of tSe arms nda sy hs
tho abatement Of the influenza cpl
demic in the training camps. reported
yesterday was merely temporary
During the past twenty-four hours
there has been u marked increase in
new cases and deaths.
New cases of influenza numbered 49,
sos. which is 1855 more than reported
yesterday. The new cases OF pneu-
monia totaled 2,s42, as aainst a.1s1 the
day before.
Deaths from all causes in the army
camps and stations for the twenty
four period were SEQ an increase OF
fifty mine over yesterdays total.
Total influenza cases reported since
the beginning Of the epidemic Septem-
bcr l3, now number l9S.799.
American Editors Reach England.
LONDON, October "a party OF
American editors, who sailed on Sep.
tember 26 as the guests Of the min
istry OF Information, have arrived
safely at a British port.
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