City's Death Rate Takes High Spurt

• For the week ended last Saturday, Columbus has the highest mortality rate of any large city in the state at 37.7 per 1,000• Other cities come in at the following rates per 1,000 population: 32.9 at Cincinnati; 23 at Cleveland; 17.7 at Toledo and 16 at Dayton• City health officer Kahn and state health officials say this high number is expected, although until recently, Columbus had one of the lowest mortality rates in the state • Dr. E.J. Schwartz, head of the state division of communicable diseases, says “No health officer needs pat himself on the back over a low death rate and think his community is going to get off easy”• Dr. Schwartz and Dr. Kahn agree that there will be influenza this winter and next, but this will be a reoccurrence of the disease, not an epidemic• Yesterday, there were six influenza deaths reported and 104 new cases • 87 of the 104 new cases of influenza were reported from St. Vincent's Orphanage• At the orphanage, 261 of 350 children and 11 of 25 sisters have the disease; there have been no deaths• Yesterday, five nurses and four physicians were sent to aid the orphanage; the situation is said to be well in handNewspaper article1