Grippe Deaths Set New Record of 171

• Total influenza deaths from 9/14 to 9/30; 1137• Total pneumonia deaths from 9/14 to 9/30; 333• Influenza deaths 9/30; 142• Pneumonia deaths 9/30; 29• Boston Health Department reports 171 grippe deaths from 10 p.m. Sun to 10 p.m Mon, an increase of 21 over the previous 24 hours• Boston’s death roll in the past 24 hours was the largest thus far recorded. The total of 171 was comprised of 142 influenza and 29 pneumonia• The State Emergency Public Health Committee asks churches of all denominations in the State to close next Sunday• The Governor’s Council appropriates $400,000 more, for a total of $500,000 to fight epidemic• Governor Samuel W. McCall returns from Quebec to take charge of the epidemic situation• State Health Commissioner Eugene R. Kelley estimates more than 5500 new cases in Massachusetts in 24 hours• Appeals for more doctors and nurses continue to come from all parts of the State• Henry B. Endicott, State Emergency Health Committee issued an appeal for the closing of churches as well as an appeal for teachers to volunteer in relief efforts• More than 150 cases of influenza among 500 prisoners at Charlestown State Prison• The Malden Board of Health has decided to erect tents on the grounds of the contagious hospital• The regulation forbidding public funerals in Malden allows that 15 persons may attend the funeral of a grippe victim and 25 may attend the funeral of any other type of death• One of every five persons in Amesbury has grippe• First Naval District shows 73 new cases compared to 38 Sunday and 31 Saturday, 30 of the new patients were new arrivals from Norfolk, VA• Other Navy cases include: Hingham camp, 1; Wakefield Rifle Range, 1; Deer Island, 2; Boston section, Fore River and Cambridge Aviation detachment, 4 each; Navy Yard, 5; Little Building headquarters, 7; Radio School, 9; Receiving Ship, 36; • Six deaths at Gallups Island and one at Chelsea Hospital, bringing total in Naval District to 199• More than 100 teachers have enrolled at the Boston District Nursing headquarters (561 Mass. Ave)Newspaper article1,