The Daily Herald

The Daily Herald, Chicago, Illinois, publish October 8, 1918

"FLU" SPREADING THROUGH SOUTH

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Mild Weather, However Has Made the Disease Less Fatal Than In East

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Atlanta, Oct. 8 - - Spanish Influenza, which started in epidemic form in the east a month ago, is now spreading throughout the south. Unofficial reports from a score of the larger cities in the south show more than 50,000 cases among the civilian population, while hardly a single army camp has escaped.

Mild weather, still prevailing in the south, however, has made the disease less fatal that in the east and the death rate is comparatively small.

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FIVE DEATHS IN JACKSON

Jackson, Miss., Oct. 8 - - The health authorities ordered the Jackson public schools, theatres and churches closed today and all public meetings abandoned on account of influenza. Five deaths occurred since Saturday and there are upward of five hundred cases in the city.

More than fifty deaths have occurred in Mississippi from Spanish influenza, and many towns leave suspended schools, moving pictures shows and all forms of public gatherings. Other cities contemplating drastic measures to prevent a further spread of the disease. Ten deaths have been reported from Lauderdale County, where more than 10,000 cases have been found.

All schools, theatres, churches and other public gatherings are under the ban in Meridian, while similar measures have been adopted at Oxford and other places.

There are 700 cases at A & M College and three deaths have been reported from since Saturday. The corp. of nurses and physicians at I. I. & C. Have been handling so many cases that they have appealed for assistance. The University of Mississippi has about sicty cases, while Mississippi College at Canton and Millsaps College at Clinton, in this city, also have many cases.

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25,000 CASES IN OHIO

Columbus, O. -- The epidemic of influenza is increasing rapidly in Ohio and a total of 25,000 cases and many deaths have been reported today.

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INTERFERING WITH DRAFT IN TENNESSEE

Washington, Oct., 8. - - The influenza condition in Tennessee resulted in appeals to Provost Marshall Gen. Crowder today for a stoppage of physicians examinations of registrants placed in Class 1 by the draft boards in order to release doctors. Permission is being granted in localities where conditions are most serious.