New-York tribune., 1918-10-22
Health Commissioner Re-
ports Cut Of 9O8 Cases in
Daily Average
Landlords of Cold
Houses Are Warned
Preventive Vaccine To Be
Made Available to
Public To-day

The influenza epidemic IN New York
is declining" Health Commissioner
Copeland said yesterday IN announcing
a drop of eos in the daily average of
new cases OF the disease THE epi-
ternic is burning ont in Manhattan,
where It first appeared" he added, "and
- are now concentrating on Queens
and the outlying sections of Brooklyn. :
Tx tnenty-fourhour report Of new
jaGuenza cases totalled 5,6S2- Deaths
rom infnonza and pneumonia dropped
fgon 64s, reported Sunday, to 552- a
acrease OF % was also shown in the
aev eases of pneumonia
Fifty sanitary police were engaged
Yesterday In warning landlords to fur
uish hest where illness exists Sum
1lonses VIII be served to-day and to
morrow on those who refuse Ar
engagements have been made with the
fnel administrator to supply coal for
houses wnere there is none
Lodging House Reopened
Conditions have so greatly improved
IN the last few days that the Health
Department to-day will vacate the mu-
niclpal lodging house, which has been
used as an emergency hospital. There
is still great demand for nurses.
Mayor Hylan has Endorsed the stand
Of the Health Department in declining
70 close schools, theatres and churches
in Staten IslanG and has offered the
city's police and legal machinery for
erals and drugs.
Manhattan reported 1894 new cases
of influenza; the Bronx, 233; Brook
iyns 1893; Queens, $40, and Richmond,
H. Influenza deaths in Manhattan
numbered $50; the Bronx, 81; Brooklyn,
rs; Queens, 26, and Richmond, So.
Pneumonia seized 341 in Manhattan;
thc Bronx reported rs; Brooklyn, 2O2;
Queens, 81, and Richmond, 25. The
deaths in Manhattan were 90; the
bronx. ~; Brooklyn, rs; Queens, Is,
and Richmond, 7.
70,794 Cases to Date
Influenza cases to date total 7o.794l
IN The city, with a.142 deaths The
deaths from pneumonia have totallcd
! ,243 out of $500 cases.
The city's preventive influenza
vaccine will be made available to the
public to-day at the health centraa
and clinics OF the Health Department.
inoculations will be free. Two or
three injections are necessary at in
tervals OF two days. 1noculatons will
be made at the following addresses:
Manhattan. - Centre and Walker
Street, 307 West Thrty-third Street.
te Lafayette Street, 331 Broome Street,
IL East Tenth Street, 439 East Fifty
seventh Street, 341 Pleasant Avenue,
lel west 14oth Street, 1870 Prince
street and the foot of East Ninetieth
Street.
Bronx-3731 Third Avenue, Third
Avenue and st. Pau's Place and d39
East 139th Street.
Brooklyn-29 Third Avenue. Fleet
and Willoughby Streets, 42O Herkimer
Street, "a Pennsylvania Avenue. 974
West Street, 215 Sixteth Street and
foot of North Second Street.
Queens-13S Hunter Avenue, Long
Island City; Greensboro Hospital.
Flushing Avenue and Lofts Lane; S72
tulten Street. Jamaica; 112 Broadway.
Flushing, and 753 Onderdonk Avenue.
Ridgewood.
Richmond-Bay and Elisabeth Streets.
stanlcton
The Public Health Committee of the
Academy of Medicine yesterday adopt
ed resolution urging an amendment
20 the clty's sanitary code making
coughing or sneezing IN a public nIacc
without covering the mouth and nose =
TnlsdeTeanor The Governor Is also
requested bv the committee to name y
commission to investigate the Spanish
Anfuenza epidemic with view To-
4vertlng or controlling future cpl
denies.
Ihe committee calls upon surgeons
OF me city to postpone operations un
,ii 0he present epidemic ends in order
70 conserve hospital room, and doctors
arc asked to restrict the employment
VI nurses Tor individual cases to a