Health officers find influenza epidemic waning

• State and city health officers announced yesterday that the epidemic is on the wane• The public is warned against optimism, however, as the situation could change• Health Commissioner John Dill Robertson called in seven prominent physicians to advise him; the doctors agreed that there is no need to close schools• Health Commissioner John Dill Robertson: ‘”There is just as good reason to close the churches and theaters and shut down the street cars and close State street and the department stores as there is to close the schools. We are going to get through without it.’”• Health Commissioner John Dill Robertson told the school principals and engineers he had called in that he was angry that they would allow dry sweeping and poor ventilation in their schools, and that he had the power to shut down every school that did not comply with the orders• Health Commissioner John Dill Robertson does not believe that there are 50-60,000 cases in Chicago, as Drake has statedNewspaper article1