Influenza Causes Third Death Here

• Third sailor in three days dies• 1,200 cases remain in Philadelphia• Board of Health to meet tomorrow to discuss whether influenza should be a reportable disease• Number of cases at Camp Dix, NJ, has dropped from 1,500 to 970• Plummer believes epidemic will be gone within 15 days• It is believed that there are about 150 civilian cases• Krusen states that if civilians take “ordinary care” there is no danger of the disease spreading to civilian populationNewspaper article1, 2