Medicine: Influenza

The influenza which swiftly spread over the South and West (TIME, Dec. 12) by last week had filtered North and East. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming estimated a quarter-million cases in the country, up from 65,000 three weeks ago. But the disease this year is mild, kills few victims.

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