Shawnee County KS Archives News.....More Influenza Cases: October 4, 1918 October 4, 1918
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The Topeka Daily Capital, Friday, October 4, 1918 October 4, 1918
More Influenza Cases.
Increase Yesterday, 76, Dr. S.J. Crumbine Reports.

Seventy-six new cases of influenza were reported to the state board of health
from Kansas towns yesterday. Forty-one of these were from Hays. S.J. Crumbine,
secretary of the state board of health, made it known yesterday that there would
be no gumshoeing in the matter of keeping the people posted on the spread of
influenza. He said the public was entitled to know all about the spread of this
contagion and that his department would give out all the facts that came to the
board's knowledge.
An epidemic of influenza has been discovered at Sterling, where it was started
by the return of an infected soldier from an eastern training camp. Dr. S. J.
Crumbine, secretary of the state board of health, said yesterday. Thirty cases
are reported from Sterling and Lieut. Charles D. Shelton, who is attached to the
state board of health office at Topeka, for the control of epidemic diseases,
was sent to Sterling last night to assist in the control of the disease.
The total number of cases now reported from Hays is 240, Doctor Crumbine said,
including the forty-one cases reported yesterday.




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