Add to ORKG• 424 new cases in 24 hours, bringing total number of cases in city to 2,591• Starkloff says conditions are slightly improved but precautions against relaxing• Mayor Kiel says that at the current rate of improvement, there was a chance that the closing orders might be lifted or modified by the end of the present week• 223 cases at the city hospital• Dr. Rolla Henry, Supt. of the Hospital, has contracted influenza• Dr. E. E. Hein, chief surgeon now in charge of the staff, said today that the number of patients admitted today indicates that the epidemic is on the increase• Only 20 new cases reported at Jefferson Barracks, compared to the recent daily average of more than 100Newspaper article