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rCity Health Commission-
er Says "Contagion
Will Probably Con
i tinue Until It Has Hit
Every Person Who is
Not Immune to It."
Chicago, Jan. 24 -Influenza
and pneumonia continued to
j spread in Chicago . today at the
j rate of more than 2,000 new
cases every 24 hours, after
having established 'yesterday a
high death record for the pres-
! ent epidemic. One hundred
and one lives was the toll of the
' diseases.
Predictions of the city health, com
missioner today assumed a pessl
' mistlc tone. "The contagion profoably
' -will continue tmtiil it has hit every
person -who is not immune to it," he
said.
Industrial estaibUshments began to
report seriously deplete ed working
' forces, some as much as fen per cent.
V Dr. Tart C. Carr, senior grade lieu
tenant in charge of the (Main Lab
oratory at the Great Lakes Naval
Training: Station, lias isolated the In
fluenza germs, he announced today.
"It is the real Influenza -haoillus
(discovered by PflefEer in England,"
Dr. Carr said. "I took the sputum
from a person near death from influ
enza, washed it In a salt solution,
plated on blood madia, picked out the
influenza bacillua colonies and trans
ferred them to & separate media.
There can be no doubt about it.
