Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1918 — 1,477 NEW CASES OF INFLUENZA REPORTED [ARTICLE]

1,477 NEW CASES OF INFLUENZA REPORTED

Indanapois, Nov. 20.—Reports received by 'the state board of health today from thrrty-five counties spewed a total of 1,477 new cases of influenza, or a total of forty-two in the county. Thrp is a higher average than that registered during the height of'.the epidemic in October. Major W. F. King, : assistant secretary of the board, said bjowever, that local health officers report that the present cases of influenza*, seem to'take a lighter form, with liess fever, than those of a month ago.. The death rate also seems to be lower.