Influenza Brought To Camp By Selectives In Quota Sent From Eastern Massachusetts

• At the camp, “charts…show that the disease is on the decline.”• There were 208 cases that had developed a week ago, compared with 124 yesterday.• There are 1,100 cases being treated “in connection with the camp.”• Most are in Syracuse hospitals, but there are a significant amount in the Fair grounds emergency hospital and the General Military Base Hospital at Ft. Ontario.• The article reports that men from draft boards in eastern Massachusetts brought influenza to Syracuse. • The original cases were from a battalion in Boston, and most of the fatalities have occurred in this area.• The first three cases at the Syracuse Recruiting Camp were found the morning of Sept. 9th. • Medical staff were prepared for the epidemic, has it had already spread through the east. • The next two days, the number of cases drastically rose. • Thursday of last week, 205 cases were reported. • Friday, cases began to decline.• This lasted until last (this does not really make sense in the timeline, but it is printed in the article in this way) Tuesday, when 162 cases were reported. • The next morning at sick call, there were 189 cases. • Yesterday, there were only 124 cases, indicating a second decline. • From Sept. 9th up to yesterday, there were 1,500 cases and 37 deaths reported – less than 2% fatalities.• Every cold is brought to the hospital, though most of these do not develop into influenza.Newspaper article