The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-22
Endemic Held Back Constant
", and Strict Reporting
with Complete Publicity
Saves the City.
NEARBY CITIES SUFFER
More New Cases in One Day in
Quincy Than in q Whole
Month in Keokuk, and
Others as Bad.

There are a grand total OK only
ITO cases OF influenza In Keokuk to
day.
I,wenty-four new cases were re
norted in the twenty-four hours end
Ing at 10 o'clock this morning, and
fo1rteen were reported discharged
making net increase Of ten in the
eity of over 10000 population.
They occur In ninety-one homes.
The new cases reported include four
in one house and three in another
house. Families are apt to contract
the disease all at once, when one Is
infected with the contagion.
The statistics of influenza in Keo-
kuk are taken at 10 o'clock each
morning for The Gate City. There
Is an unpreventible movement back
ward and forward of figures COM
pared with the cases, due to the time
Of day the doctors happen, to report
TO the mayor.
Some Belong to Sunday.
Not a single case vas reported this
morning before 10 O'Clock, all those
OF the previous twenty-four hours
being reported yesterday afternoon.
There is little doubt that the twenty
four mentioned above include some
visited by the physician on Sunday
and reported on Monday. If the doc
to reported after 10 o'clock Monday,
they are in today's statistics, al
though they belong to the figures of
Monday in fact Some hour must be
fixed, and kept, and one is as good
as another.
The main thing is to keep the
figures accurate, and this Is being
done here with the precision of bank
accounting.
The Keokuk physicians are making
this possible by reporting 'religiously
to the mayor, in contrast to the pro-
fession in many other cities who are
prolonging the epidemic there by not
reporting properly.
Fake Reports Rampant.
Considerable unnecessary trouble
is caused some Keokuk people by the
gossips reporting serious illness and
even deaths where there is no fatal
ity, and perhaps even no sickness.
Almost every day The Gate City
is asked about the death of some
body who is very much alive, and is
told Of the dangerous illness of some
body who gets irritated when asked
about 1t in the street car or his
Office
These reports just grow here. 1t
is a condition of gossip which has
been in Keokuk for, years. News
paper men have run down thousands
Of stories and have seen them taper
out to nothing worth while as they
were traced backward
The Terror Takes Quincy.
The terrible conditions in Quincy,
grow worse instead of better The
new cases reported yesterday were
l5S, with lao for Sunday, making
total of 29S new cases in the same
time that five new cases were report
co in Keokuk. Moreover, there seems
TO be no doubt that Quincy doctors
10 not report cases as directed, while
heokuk physicians are vigilant in
reporting to the mayor.
The number OF cases now in Quincy
opportunities 1,500, and that city is
practically paralyzed.
The Democrat in a long article
showing that the ban on assemblies
IS not quarantine, which is true,
says that up there it is impossible
70 get nurses enough to meet the
needs of that city, and all must give
Whatever aid they can to the fami-
mes of the sick. Fort Madison seeks
70 camoufage the epidemic there,
which indicates that it is raging in
Inc other county seat.
Carthage in Good Shape.
only six cases of influenza were
round in Carthage by DIR. T. ]. Bro |
phy, a representative of the Illinois |
state board of health who is stay |
ing in Quincy to enforce the law
there.
some church services were held in
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