The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-04
WARNINGS SENT
TO COUNTIES TO
FIGHT The. FLU
Must Direct Organization and
Provide Funds at Once.
State Health Department Sends
Hospital Equipment.
in "a HOURS 2, 7O2 new CASES
Fear Development of More Dis
ease Due to Weather.
Thirty-E Eight Cases of Pneu.
monia and 81 Deaths.
State Health Department Sends
Hospital Equipment.
IN "a HOURS 2, 7O2 new CASES
Thirty-Eight Cases of Pneu.
~
monia and 81 Deaths.

Reports received by the state board
of health shortly after noon today
showed 2,702 new cases of influenza.
ss cases of pneumonia and FL deaths
for the last "a hours. The reports are
frons 20 of 135 reporting stations ana
include SO counties at large and eleven
cities
While the reports show a decrease
of So2 cases below the record for the
same period Tuesday. state health Of
provement. They fear development
of many new cases as result of un-
favorable weather conditions.
New warnings went to all counties
today. Richard ]. Hopkins. attorney
general. this afternoon directed an sui-
sioners directing them to shoulder re-
sponsibility in their communities
These boards were urged to direct or
ganization work and provide funds for
the emergency. This action followed
a conference with Governor Allen. DIR.
S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the state
board of health, and Horace Hail, rep
resenting the Red Cross While the
state and Red Cross are giving every
possible assistance, 1t is impossible for
them to assume local responsibility in
each of the 135 reporting districts.
Send Hospital Equipment.
Preparations are being made by the
state health department today to send
hospital equipment to several COM
munities. In the sparsely settled dis
tricts where serious epidemics exist.
local medical corps are in some cases
unable to meet the problem. Doctors
| and nurses will be sent by the state in
| the more serious local cases. Many
| localities tho, are showing a tendency
to shoulder the entire burden on the
state--in some cases inspired by polit-
| ical desire to escape local taxation
burdens.
Communities Must Help.
'The communities must shoulder.
their full share of this responsibility"
said Doctor Crumbine. THE state will
| give every possible assistance. But II
is entirely impossible even by the use
of several times our available fund to
meet the calls for state aid. Topeka
| is one of the towns most prompt to
| meet the critical situation. Doctor
Browns organization work and the
city's action in meeting its individual
responsibility is most commendable.
Horace L. Hall, who spent an hour
| at the state house this morning. as
serted that many towns had asked the
Red Cross to carry the entire burden
and expense of local epidemics. A
| number of the requests, he said, had
| come from towns and counties with
property valuations sufficient to pro-
vide needed funds at most nominal
| unit cost.
Several cities and counties today
showed greatly improved conditions
| On the other hand numerous increases
were noted in communities where only
scattered cases were previously re-
ported. Allen county dropped from
! 11S cases Tuesday to 40 today. Cloud
dropped from ia to SO. Crawford
| from 104 to Al, Franklin from rs to
35. Kingman from 11S to So. Rawlins
F., from 1877 to 35. Saline from 173 to 81,
Kansas City from 153 to 121 and Rose
were: Atchison city. so to 1os; Chase
county. Is to SO: Doniphan, 36 to IL:
Nemaha, to 33: Sedgwick, II to As;
Sumner. 100 to 140.
More Pneumonia Cases.
New pneumonia cases today in-
cluded ten in Kansas City, nine in
| Cheyenne county, four in Geary and
Kingman and two each in Cloud.
| Greenwood and Sumner. Kansas City
reported eight deaths, Rawlins county
| four and Cowley three. Wichita. Fort
Scott, Rosedale. cities, and Cheyenne.
| Butler and Kingman counties each re-
ported one death.
Reports by Counties.
Flu reports by counties and cities
las received at offices of the state
board of health today follow:
| COUNTIES: Allen, 40; Atchison.
LIS; Barton 20; Bourbon, 30; Brown,
T42: Butler, IS; Chase, so: Cbautauqua.
16; Cherokee, IS; Cheyenne. IL: Clays
j4s: Cloud. SO; Comanche. 5: Cowley,
1147; Crawford, Al; Doniphan, ~; Ed
wards. 64: Elk. IL: Ellis. 5; Franklin.
1855: Geary. 81: Cove. 29s Gray. p:
Greeley. Is; Greenwood. So; Harper.
As; jefferson. IL: JeweT. es: King
/ man, 81; Kiowa. 81; Leavenwortn.
/ 20; Linn, 80: Logan. 16; Lyon, 81.
Marion. Sc: Marshall. 40: Mcpherson,
1GO: Miami. 80; Mitchell. 10: Mont
gomery :: Morris. 10: Morton. s:
Nemaha. 80: Pawnee. "A; Pottawato-
mie 25. Rawlins, 35: Riley. 81;
Rocks, ): Russell. 4: Saline. 81; Scott,
10: Sedgwick. 46: Shawnee. (no re-
port:) Smith, 30; Stanton. 30; Sumner.
140: Washington, 80; Wichita. 5.
CITIES. Atchison. 106; Fort S-7st.
III: Pittsburg, 2e: Lawrence. 9: Lcav-
enworth. IS: coffeyville, s: Indepcnd-
ence, 8: Wichita. 65; Topeka, 81:
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