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Seven weeks ago, a wave of mild influenza swept through California, along the west coast, east to Louisiana. Some experts predicted that the epidemic would reach the east coast with "the speed of a plane." They were wrong. The epidemic did not move east until last fortnight. By week's end it had downed at least 100,000 people, mostly in the South and on the Atlantic seaboard...
...common cold accounts for most of the illness throughout the University, with only five cases of genuine influenza diagnosed up to Tuesday, Dr. Bock said. "Despite the prevalence of respiratory infections, we have been unusually lucky in having very few complications. So far there have been only two cases of pneumonia and two middle ear infections...
Harvard scientists played an important role in the long process of discovering the causes of influenza, according to an article by J. D. Ratcliff in the current issue of Collier...
Canterbury's boys were taught apologetics and Christian ethics by their headmaster. They also prayed daily to the "Canterbury saints." During the severe influenza epidemic of 1918, they offered special prayers to St. Michael, escaped without a single case of the flu. The school later installed a $7,500 stained-glass window in honor of St. Michael and the "Canterbury saints." For his "outstanding work in Catholic education" Pope Pius XI two years ago made Dr. Hume a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great...
...Influenza. The epidemic of mild influenza on the West Coast (TIME, Dec. 16) appeared to be petering out there. From the coast, the disease traveled south, striking Texas and Oklahoma, but with waning force. Hardest hit was the little town of Alexandria, La. where authorities estimated at least 30,000 flu cases...