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Influenza Encyclopedia

ï~~ II e.ate and City Boards o Health Cultivating Serum. IFORTLAND NEW CASES 149 lhroughout Oregon, Outside the CIty 959 New Cases Are Re ported With 19 Deaths. k phophylactic vaccine, used with hcod result., elsewhere and expected to aid in curbing the influense here. is being prepared by state and city health officials and will be ready for free distribution to doctors soon, it was ansunced yesterday by the State Board of Stealth. In Seattle 60,000 persons have been treated with the serum with the result, -it is said, that none has contracted the disease in a serious form. At the Skin ned & Eddy ehipyards 6000 employes were inoculated. Fewer cases of sick Sies, it is aaid, have been reported at the yard hospital than in any previous M onth. The culture- from which anti-infle eaa serum is made was brought to' Portland by a representative of the health department of the Shipping Board. Only two of 1200 men tnocu latde at the Bremerton Navy-yard have 0ontracted Influensa, he says. Vaeeiae Supplied Pkymieitass. The vaccine, which is recommended he a preventative, not a cure, will be supplied to physicians only. No inocu lattens will be made either at state or city laboratories. The state laboratory has set out email qoantities to phy siciansoutside of Portland. The chty laboratory will not have any quantity?.tadY._clit Thursday. 'tb eserumti administered hypoder -Inically. The charge for inocalation is erpected to be the regular amount for aL'risit. in Portland 149 new cases were re ierted, bringing the total up to 1310. Twelve deaths wers made known, hut these occurred during four days, mak. insy the corrected total now h2 for the cours period. New C "e in Ores 209. --- Thyoughocthetate 259 new eases Mvere reported nd 9 deaths. New cases yesterday were siven as follows: Oregon City. 5; Coos Bay, 36. Roseburg. 34; Grants Pass. 20; Klam ath Falls. 21; Eugene, 20; Albany, 8; Salem. 19; Heppner, 20; Dallas, 2; Union County. 2; Fossil. 10; McMinnville. 5;. At the city's emergency hospital 160 nases were being cared for last night. Supplies have been collected for 300. The entire organization at the Au ditorium today goes on a military basis. Captain Theofinn Tharaldser is in'com mend with Lieutenant J. R. Johnson the doctor In charge of patient. Forty soldiers from the Spruce Division are on duty there. and military discipline pervades every department. Urgent calls for more nurses are 'hdard. The Red Cross esupply has run abort. Mans Ia Churches Seaned. Ruling against mass or any gather ings in churches was made yesterday by Dr. Parrish. Because-of the persistence -.with etbilch' t. rmalady is making inroads into Portland's population. health offi cials say that the ban cannot be raised here for at least two weeks-probably longer. Deaths madesknown yesterday follow: October19-1tanley Rice, 3, shipyard worker; Percival Stephen. 9i+. shipyard worker. 201 Wasco street. Ocober Il-Nohie N. Matiocob.27. ship yard eober E14 OastaHarrison street, Ktenneth C- peeler, 22. clerk. Ill West yark street: Richard It. Sletght., etip. yard workec. chtober 21-M. W Green. Te. laborer, Wa bosh Noes;.Claud C. Nolacd,.215, draymnn 160 h ast evnty-ninth atreet:d rtma lsa' 24,domesticGoM. s siMspiavenue. O'rtcher SI-Ole- Kntsn;c.H. P. Po; Alfred Cunningham, engineer,. 1-Johns. ONE DEATH AT CORNELIUS.'uneral Services Are Held on Lawn as Quarantine Measure. for encatnme nt0d tleutenaaet testlnd leaves- this wee y SF LUENZA CASES ARE FEWF Camp Lewa Otticials Reepor t crease Smn.PFes *.dPatients. CAMP L11WIS, Tacoma, Wash.. Oct. 22.-Tti Army base hospital here con tains 9 fewer patients today than it contained yesterday; according to hoa pital reports to camp headeuarers. There were 67 fewer influensa patients, 113 being confined, suffering frop 'this disease against 1190 yesterday. Charts in jhe,offie tMkjor Irby L. McClaeson. sanitary? tor of the 13th Division, ashoyr. '.t ea gradil ally decreasing, but some increase in pneumonia, 5 new cases of pneumonia reported yesterday, being the greates{ ruember of cases in a single day since the camp was established, Lessening of influenza is expected to decrease the number of pneumonia bases. ' Winlock Doctor Stricken. WINLQCK, Wash., Oct. 22.-(Sps cial.)-Dr. W. W. Webb, of this place, is a Spanish influensa target, having contracted the disease while caring for other sufferers. About a dosen cases of induenza are reported here, but most of them are said to be mild. No deaths have occurred., Estacada Ticket Nasimedlt ESTACADA, Or., Oct. 22.-(Special.) -The following Citizens' ticket has been adopted for the coming municipal election: Mayor, E. W. Bartlett; Recorder, S. E. Wooster; Treasurer, Mrs. Jess M. Bartlett: Councilmen, L. A. Wells, James Smith. U. S. Morgan. J. V. Barr, -John Osborne, Seatte Epidemic at Crest. SEATTE. Oct. 22.-,Spanish Influenza in Seattle has reached its crest, accord ing to Dr. J.. IMcBride, city health commissioner, tonight: New cases re ported today were only 218 and deaths five. Belgium to Celebrate at Havve. WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-Deliverance of half of Belgtum from the Germans will be celebrated at Htavre October'24 and 37. the anniversary of the first battle of the Yser, under the auspices of the Belgian government. CALIFORNI ACASES, 31,000 NEIGHBORING STATE HARD HIT BY INFLUENZA. Tens of Thousands of Medical Gause Masks Purchased by People of San Francisco. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Oct. 22.-Offi clals of the State Board of Health esti mated the total number of new cases of Spanish influenza in California re ported today at 4000, making a total of 37,000 that have been reported to date. Los Angeles reported e4 deaths yes terday under classifications of influ ensa, Influenza-pneumonia and pneu monia, it was announced. Edward Burns, one of 80 alleged In dustrial Workers of the World, await ing trial here November 12 on a charge of conspirtug to obstruct, the war ac tivities of the Government, died today frem influenza. Robert Blaine, an other defendant, was reported In a seri ous condition. SAN FRANQISCO. Oct. 22.-Spablsh influenzk is announced to be well under control at all the posts of the Western Department of the Army. The situa tion I San Francisco, however, is un improved. Medical gause masks were being sold by the lens of tbhnusan ds here today followng retsated requeste by stats and city health authorities that they be worn. Policemen were Instructed to stop all persons on the street not wearing the gauze masks and request them to se curo maskseat once. No church services will be permitted where all present are not masked, It was announced. BUTTE. Mont., Oct. 22.-Thu closing of salcoe for the salboe glqoodbyhe* ordfhred today by the County Board of batalth in the continued effnrts to com NOME, Alaska, Oct. 2.-Although Spanish influsenza, has nnt yet appeared io Alaska. public gatherings in Nome were prohibitod today. Passengers ar riving Sunday aboard the steamer Vic lucia from Seattle wsre placed under posileentry of the diseapre in the territory. COV/E EXCEEDS LOAN QUOTA Subscription of $1000 by R. Morris Saves the Day at Last Minnte. COVE. Or.. Oct. 22.-(8pecial.)-Coves made her- fourth liberty loan quota, $46,500, in tbhs fina.l minute when N. Morris, better known as "Mike Morris," telephoned to the Cove State- Bank at 3:05 P. M., Saturday, and subscribed $1000. He kept Cove from falling down 'IIUE5EALESS hERIOUS THAN IN EAST AND SOUTH. Sitgatione Serious Now in Oney Five Arn Campo, Aceordng to Official Report. WASHINGTON. Oct. 22.-A slight improvement In the influensa altuatioh over the country was indicated by re ports received today by the public health service, but in many places the epidemic - apparently has yet to reach its crest. In the Far West and on the Pacific Coast the estu tion has not proved nearly so serious as it did in the East and South. Continued abatement of the epidemic in Ariny camps was reported today to the office-of thb SurS on-General of the Army. Army medi i officers said influenza may now be said to be epi demic in only five camps. In the East a pd-bouth generally conditions amng the civilian popula tions are rapidly Improting. In the Middle West and in the states border ing the Misdie'pi and M en. rmiern abatement of the deease also has been noted, althoughmany new casts a,, are being reported daily. In California 32.000 cases had been' reported up to yesterday. Oregon and Washington also reported new cases and some deaths.. BALTIMORE, Oct. 23.-With ices thand200hna cases of22nfl uena and 170 deahs reported during the last 14 hours, the health authorities of the city are mare encouraged. Throughout the state the epidemic continues strong. with 1089 new caes. Cardinal Gibbons and those in charge of the pt-elate's golden jubilee have been criticised by the Health Commis sioner for holding ceremonies Sunday: at St. Mary's eminar,y at which for eign prelates were present, as in vio lation of the non-assemblage rule in force during the epidemic. The cardinal previously had sharply criticised the closing of churches. OMAHA. Oct. 23.-To check the spread of Spanish influensa. ltate of fiicil today/orderod closed all public gatheriegs. and defined a public gath ering a group composed of more than 12 persoes.'" Public funerals or church funerals are placed under a ban. anti streetcar windows must stay opectragardless of weather. Crowded streecairs will cot be allowed. HARRISBURG. Pa.. Oct. 22.-The State Department of Health tonight annunced that 18,371 deaths bad occurred in Pennsylvania from nlufscna and its complications since October 1. In the same period there were 2835 deaths from pneumonia. EL PASO. Oct. 12.-A total of 7000 Spanish Influenza cases were treated her during the last 10 days and 425 dec1 resulted from the dtsease. according to a statement issued by the City Board of Health today. These estimates included Fort Blie. DENVER. Colo., Oct. 22.-The in.fluensa epidemic In Colorado has claimed 311 victims and there are 8917 cases In the state, according to a report tonight by the State Board of Health. Yankees Anxious to Serne. CAMP KEARNY, San Diego, Cal.Another evidence of the readiness of the average Ame-ican to serve his country whrvr h may be of use was given here recently in examination of draft recruits by personnel% officers, GAS -FAPORM 1S STRAFED B3 BRITIS HAIRMEN, RerT- DeathB oll Follows Attack on Cologne and Coblents; Rail irsy Raided 4$ Times. LONDON.-(Correspondence of The Asociated Press.)--The Badische pei son gha plant it Mannheim, it the Rhine Valley, is a favorite object fot "stranna'- by the British airmen. Three consecutive raids upon it by night havs extensively damaged it. The raider's bombs partly destroyed the sulphuric acid and nitrtc vitriol factoryband the aniline department. Other bundinge of the plant were wrecked. The other factories at Man helm have been heavily bombed elevee times A heavy death roll has attended numerous air attacks on Cologne and Coblents where the Germans are being heavily repaid.in their own coin fo their murderotip work on London and Paris. The factories and railway sta tion at Saarbrucknn have been tee times bombed by the British; Ehisrue live timea; Franhtort-on-te-Rhine. three times; Stuttgart and Zwebrucken. twice. Most of the air attacks in the Rhine provinces have been directed against the key railway centers, notably those at Thionvillend Mets-Sablon. The fa mous railway triangle at -Mets-Sablon and the junction at Thionville have been raided forty-six times. Photo graphs taan by the attacking airmen confirm the extent and magnitude of the damage done. War traffic through Met-Sablon has beenm aterially reduced as a result of the frequent raids at a time when quick and regular transport of mution was vital to Germany's military needs. ce big industrial centers on the Rhine contain, in adition to Important rail way junctions, some of the largest mu nition, poison gas and electrical plants in Western Germanty. These military objectives have been attacked repeat Idly with marked effect. MAIL BY FREIGHT OPPOSED Cordova, Alaska, Chamber of Com m erce Will Proitet. CORDOVA, Alaska. - Cordova does not like the Government's system of sending first-class Alaska malils north by express and second-clas nmil by freight. The local Chamber of Commerce has decided to write a letter to Washington. D. C.. stating that under the new plan mails are greatly delayed. Sometime ago the Government refused-o accept the increased bids the steamship companies made for the mallcarrying contracts. So all postal clerks were taken from the boats and the malls shipped like other freight and express, Mexican Prees Hard Hit. MEXICO CITY.--ighty-one Mexican daily newspapers areaffected by the recent embargo imposed by the United States Govet nment on the exportation of' newsprint papers from the United States to Mexico.. Except for one plant. There's Real Ov Economy in Hart Marx Sty Y A w cold days, a touch of men rush for their overco have a good one from last are taken care of; if y new one.-,- we can take c; We can give you style, fine tailoring and good fit-qualit what youere after most of all If you want a guarantee of w time, of a sha'pe-keeping garme comfortable overcoat-you'll a you the best wehave, made by Hart- Schaffner -k Chesterfields, Box Overcos Military Models. Sam'1 Rosenbia The Men's Store for Quality and Service,. F which is controlled by Germans. there tics peculiar are no paper factorIeS in Mexico. With~Wbich t use of fire-c for the men ARMY-SCHOOLS LURE MANY forms of the motor mocba Camp Kearny Men Study While in * Training for War. Sie CAMP KEARNY, San Diego, Cal.-- a sND Schools. more schools and yet more I England schools are the rule here, though has announct "school call" rarely is heard, and they site on Mot go about theirwork quietly. In a typ- which he he cal case, that of the 64th Field Artil- Commission lery, eight schools are In progress, in! erected a He dependent of the divisional or regimental schools many officers and men FSls] must attend. Four of h care for officers and NEW YO] tour for mVThose for officers in- received her elude map reading, mathematics, tae- success of t) '[: ' - -- -. 41 CORNELIUS. Or.Octas22-(Special) --;S-panish lefluena non claimed ones victim here. Liston, the youngest child - of Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson, died at their home here S atrday afteroone They, were ix members 1n the family and all were taken sick at the same time. Funeral services were conducted on the lawn in front of the house Monday enorning. With the breaking out of the Spanish loe;a all public buildiegs bane been ned ned all getherings muet be held in the open air. Mayor Sholee is using every measureoto prevent the spread of the diseas Marshfield Men Commissioned. MARSHFIELD. Or.. Oct.. 2.-(Spe Cial.)-A. B. Gidley and B. B. Ostllnd. oontractors of this city, have received RELIEVES TIRED, ACHING MUSCLE" To make known our nsr loca tion-the Eilers Music Building, seven floors devoted to music, entrance 287 Washington-we offer today AT A BONA FIDE o;, DISCOUNT O $70 thrpe fine brand new, s efictly Imodern 'highest-grade pianos,.built tosell for $400. Net price $338. Also one lstest model $700 player-piano at a bona fide discount of $130, or $570 net. See also late model elegant,'-genuine Weber-made Pianola-piano. Now offered as an advertisement for this new location for only $415. The above are cash prices, but we make terms of payment to suit the convenience of any reasonable buyer. Remember, when these are gone there will be no more at these low prices. Pianos for rent, new ones $6 and $7 a month, ac cording to value. Used ones for less. We move, store, tune pianos at lowest rates. All work under definite gurantee. OREGON 2 Sleer, EsterMs e Bd., Entrance 287 Washington St. a WRII I M VITT% I Ill If M Fit.i- 1 w 11111M 1.. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NEWSPAPER RM 0

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