News: Five Deaths Influenza Toll Today (1918)

ODONNELL, NICKLAUS, MURPHY, CAMPBELL, SUEPPEL, ANTHONY, STEBBINS

Posted By: Melissa Mayhew Grandt (email)
Date: 5/16/2009 at 15:50:54

Iowa City Daily Citizen, Iowa City (Johnson Co.), 15 October 1918.

FIVE DEATHS INFLUENZA TOLL TODAY
Five deaths in the 24-hour period ending this afternoon is the toll of the scurge of influenza and pneumonia.

The deaths are as follows:
Joseph O'Donnell, Sioux City, aged 19, Company C, of the S.A.T.C.
T.C. Nicklaus, Elgin, Iowa, aged 18, Company C of the S.A.T.C.

In the City
James J. Murphy, formerly of the firm of Ford & Murphy, shoe dealers.
Mrs. Floyd Campbell, formerly Miss Pauline Sueppel, home in Davenport, visiting her father here, J.J. Sueppel.
Charles Anthony, aged 30, 2 1-2 miles south of Tiffin.

At The University.
At the university the number of new cases continue to be very few, showing that the epidemic among the students is broken. Seven new last night.

Only One Per Cent.
With practically 900 cases up to this time in the university today's toll bring the number up to ten. This is a little over one percent, whereas many places have reported as hight as five percent. Authorities here stated at the beginning of the epidemic that perhaps 1200 to 1500 cases and twenty-five to thirty deaths would result. The results at this time fall far short of this estimate, which was based entirely upon the experiences of other milicamps.

In The City.
In the city the new cases still continue to be largely among families who have had other members stricken. Physicians complain that precautions for the spread of the disease are not observed as they should be.

Mayor Stebbins this afternoon stated that there are now in the city as reported to the board of health 308 cases. The new cases for the last twenty-four hours have been slightly less than heretofore, and the situation is considered somewhat better.