Spanish Influenza

• New York – 184 cases, Health Commissioner Copeland, but “no cause for alarm.”• 13 cases on incoming vessel, taken to hospital• Commissioner says that the problem is cases brought by railroad from other ports.• Boston – 257 new cases reported by medical officials of the First Naval District• 10 deaths reported at Naval Hospital• “Mild form” of disease in school children of city/outlying districts• Dr. Thomas F. Leen, chief physician of Carney Hospital died of pneumonia after treating the naval men.Newspaper article