The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-26
'.2s,002 INFLUENZA
CASES IN US. CAMPS
Federal and Red Cross Off
cials Meet in Washington to
Check Epidemic.
TOTAL DEATHS NOW $50
Disease Reaches Pacific Coast,
but Outbreak There Is
Mild.

With 1913 more soldiers dead in army
camps and the disease definitely estab-
lished as having invaded twenty-six
States, officials OF the Public Health
Service. the War and Navy Departments
and the American Red Cross met in
Washington mt an emergency conference
last night to devise measures to halt
the progress OF the Spanish influenza
epidemic.
Reports TO Surgeon -General Rupert
Blue last night showed that only fifteen
OF the army and navy camps In this
country are free Of the disease and that
there now are total of 2s.OO2 cases
OF influenza among the soldiers ana
sailors. The total number of deaths
among the soldiers and sailors since
IS is' s. epidemic started o" September ''
The disease already has reached the
Pacific coast, but the outbreak there is
mild in comparison to the situation i'll
eastern New England. North Carolina
and Key West. Fla. So serious had the
situation become at Wilmington, y. c.,
that Surgeon-General Blue ordered the
Public Health Hospital in that city
opened for the treatment or influenza
patients.
situation In This City.
In this city all immediate fears Of an
epidemic appeared to be past. according
to DR.. Royal S. Copeland. Health Com
missioner. Seven deaths were reported
to the Health Department. as having oc-
Cured here in the twenty-four hour
period ended at 10 o'clock yesterday
morning -Four OF the local deaths were
caused by influenza and three by pneu-
mona.
4 total OF ~ new influenza cases
were reported to the Health Department,
but most of them were mild. Twenty
three passengers suffering from the dis
ease were taken from n steamship which
arrived at an Atlantic port, but none APP
peared to be In a serious condition.
The situation in nearby army camps
still was serious last night. Forty-two
deaths, the largest on any single day
since the epidemic developed ware re-
ported from Camp Dix. at Wr:ghtstown,
y. j., where 1874 new cases of influenza
and 122 new cases of pneumonia were
reported. Another special detail OF
army surgeons arrived at Camp Dix
yesterday to help combat the disease,
which is most prevalent among the SOL
diers OF the Thirty-fourth Division. COM
posed Of troops from the middle West
At Camp Upton eight new deaths
ease there to twenty-siS. Twenty-sevcn
new pneumonia cases were reported. The
camp authorities ordered the discontin-
uance OF entertainments and all indoor
gatherings.
At the Newport Naval Training sta
ton sixty-four new cases were reported
yesterday, against seventy-one the day
before, a fact which caused the sur
geons to believe they We're getting the
hi rtt
cases OF the disease also were reported
among the civilian population OF New
port.
Mild Cases at Annapolis.
At Annapolis, 100 midshipmen at the
Naval Academy were i'll and SUSPECTED
Of having fellen victims Of the influenza
epidemic. All of the cases were mild.
however. and the mdsh!pmen were sent
Into quarantine as soon as they dis
played signs of becoming i'll.
one thousand cases were reported at
Camp Grant. Rockford, Ill, where two
deaths occurred At Camp DeVens IN
Massachusetts,. where the epidemic. has
been most severe. 399 new cases We're re-
ported, The camp also reported 342
new cases OF pneumonia and - deaths.
Altogether. twenty three camps reported
the development OF pneumonia cases
which were considered serious.
Four new cases OF the disease were
reported in Paterson, y. j., where the
epidemic has been felt only slightly.
lioboken, however. was hard hit by the
disease yesterday, reporting more than
1000 new cases, most OF which We're
mild and, the authorities said, easily
curab
DIR. Copeland said he had no inteu-
ton whatever of ordering the pubic
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