New Cases Drop To 365, Decrease In Deaths To 63

• In the 24 hour period ending at 11 pm yesterday, there were 365 new cases and 63 deaths, including 55 from influenza, 3 from lobar pneumonia, and 5 from bronchial pneumonia.• Compare with Monday: 559 new cases, 68 (?) deaths• Depending on the results of the survey the teachers will complete today, there may or may not be measures taken to reopen the city.• “The general outlook is good.”• Dr. Gram was “overcome by the strain of battling with the epidemic,” and had to go home to bed yesterday at noon. He was overworked, and his heart was “accelerated.”• Dr. George S. Stanliand, Dr. Gram’s volunteer assistant during the epidemic, took his place.• Dr. Gram met with Mayor Buck and the law dept. about burials at St. Stanislaus cemetery at Pine Hill, where it was reported bodies had not been buried promptly.• Corporation Counsel Rann ordered that the cemetery bury the dead right away, and Sheriff Bradley was asked to ensure this was complied with.• It was reported that since wages were not raised for labor to dig these graves, the work was not getting done.• Dr. Gram’s letter to the cemetery officials was printed in the article, and Dr. Gram states that he has heard that there are 48 boxes containing human dead bodies that have not been buried, many which are not embalmed. • Dr. Gram also states that when the officials receive this letter, they have 24 hours to bury these bodies, and for subsequent bodies, they also have 24 hours to bury them.• He said that these bodies should have “decent treatment and decent burial.”• There was one report of a father who had to dig the grave for his own child.• Reverend Alexander Pitass of St. Stanislaus parish, president of the cemetery association, said that they had acquired a trench digging machine, and were not being lazy in burying bodies. He claimed there were only 30 unburied bodies, and they would be buried today.• Rev. Pitass also said that grave diggers there were being paid the highest wage of any cemetery in the city.• City Bacteriologist William G. Bissell has been receiving many requests for the vaccine, which will only be given to doctors and plants that have doctors to administer it.• The vaccine is considered to be effective as a preventive measure, but there have been some debates lately over its effectiveness. • Dr. Bissell said that it is “an experiment,” and that he has taken it and that it is not harmful. He said that, “it gets results in checking the disease.”Newspaper article