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Un~tesofthe second maeeting of the Govenor's
hIeld at t he Acade J of hedi cine, Friday
at fivep..
Influenza Comr.salon
mhere were present:
Dr..i* A.Biggs, Chairme
r. He. A.-Christien
Dr. Lewellys P. Barker
Dr. Paul Lewi.
Dr. RI. I. Cole
Id out. comtirer Phelpa
r.J*. Coldberger
Prof...C. ], A. Winslo
Dr,-t 11-*Dr. '. 3. *park.Wikiffe Rose
Dr. W. F.. Jam~s
Dr. B s: t might be 'well t hvec '..State data fromDih
Dry..he:
I av e soro charts here with.eat hs as r eported daiI~y in all
cities inclndingI.Y.Cjty, coveri n a irio4. of bout 42 -43
days. Re ~rdimrmil itary deaths -there occurred. in Camp
Ull, ep. l9--30, 12i deaths from inifluenza; at Campn Upton
from s'ept.180 76 deaths and one civilian; at Oswego
bet -een Sept. 21--3O, 21 soldier deaths and five civilian;
at Syracuse,::eat. 184.0, 69 soldier deaths and 13 vivilian;
at Buffalo no military deaths bet een Sept. 22.-26, b' three
civilian; at M~adison Barra cks no -deaths in the first week
alt the aevi eio among mili toarymen.
A table from Dr. Gdifoyj for ".e' v York rCity shows. the se zrate
of children dmcer five- years Of.age 14.1; in school:period
five: to N, fr,; beteen 15 and 25, i8'3 25 and 45, 49.3 of
influenza and Bui ioni a,
Of the up-State cities 'Hornell 1080 cases 8.21 of population,
w~ith 48 deaths. 29, of cases were children of school age.
nffalo, UBnghamton and tica had- 9.#14 1/7 of re orted cases.
T!he first deaths from inf uemza w could ascertain occurred.
beginning the.xfirst o aLetoe'ber. We have not the total
deaths for the State yet a so many are delayed. From what
we qve at hand w-e can safey estimate there 'will be about
5000 deaths from in.:luen a and. pneumoni a In t he rural area
and we shall have a death rate for the month of October of
aboout 44, all out of propnortion to a. records we can find.
we eared to compile these cases j rt as fast as we.
receive them.
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