City Now Has 125,000 Cases Of Influenza

• “Health Commissioner Copeland, in Admitting Department’s Breakdown, Gives Figures of Epidemic”• “Says Reports of Concealment Are Ridiculous - Deaths Total 5,102, Physicians Exhausted by Duties”• Physicians are too exhausted at the end of the day to report cases – numbers Copeland has could be doubled or even tripled• 5,112 cases of influenza were reported yesterday; 217 dead• “The total number of cases reported since September 18 is 48,024. Dr. Copeland said he believed the real total in this city was 100,000 to 125,000. At the present time he believes there are about 60,000 cases throughout the city.”• The number of deaths since September 18 is 5,102 – that total is correct as deaths have to be recorded before buried• Rumors of the Board of Health concealing numbers is refuted; they are just not getting reliable information to report at the moment• Copeland: “New York has had remarkable freedom from the disease or else it has been so mild a type here that no other afflicted community can show any such comparative exemption from its ravages as ours.”• Schools and theatres are to stay open• Certain areas are hit harder; below 14th Street, Corlears Hook District on the East Side, the Brownsville, Greenpoint and Williamsburg areas of BrooklynNewspaper article1