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Epidemic Over at Camp Grant

EPIDEMIC OVER AT CAMP GRANT With Passing of Scourge Army Work Being Resumed With Former Push. BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. CAMP GRANT, Rockford, . 111. Oct. 26.-Camp, Grant's epidemic of Influenza and pnoumonia, which has takon a death toll. of 1,040 mom, sturdy soldier boys every one of them, 1s practically 1 thing of the past, much to the rellef of Indiann fathers and mothers of 50• lects at this cantonment, as well 08 to' tho. Indiana men at the camp themselves. Tho medical nuthoritios at the comp have officially, declared the epidemic ft an end. There are still n number of Influenza cases developing cach dny and pneumonin 1s still. claiming Its daily toll of doath, but the situation is well In hand, having passed tho opidemic stage. Tho deaths from pneumonin havo dropped as low as two por day and the. now casca of Influenza aro only n frag• tion of what they were when tho dig• ease raged the flercest. The total num• ber of pneumonia cases la lega than 1,000, and of this number 80 per cont aro sald to bo out of dunger. Might Have Been Worse. Although tho death liat nt Camp Grant was high In comparison with that In some camps, whon the virulance of tho disease which raged. is taken Into I consideration tho. altuation could havo been worse. The pneumonia infection was of the worst type and it required an unusuni ninount vitality to throw It off once It got Into active operation. The Indiann inedical men, of whom there are many nt, the baso hospital,' aro entitled to much credit for the manly Aght they waged, their offorts being untiring. To provide for the gront expanaion of the cantonment an' soon 118 tho present building program 1s under way the Y. M. .C. A. has arranged to ndd soveral buildings to its presont equipment.' Prement plans call for four now nssocintion structures, three of them in the new sections of the replacement camp. Robert N. Sand of Winona Luke, Ind., has been appointed rellgious work secrotary at association building No. 4. Indiana men at the cantonment did their full duty by tho fourth Liberty Loan. Camp Grant came strong during tho last few days of tho campaign, and wound up with just n little less than $1,000,000 to Its crédit. The Grant loan boosters have overy hopd that the camp will load tho cantonments of the central states when tho final Agurey are an• nounced. - Army Work Resumed. With. the return to normal conditions at the cantonment the Indiana mon aro. again being put through their paces In the old army style. During the opidemic certain fentures of the military routino. were necessarily omitted but the boya will work from now on to make up for lost time. Orders from Washington are to pay no attention to peace talk, and an Intensified program 18 to ho carried out in the futuro. Work in every department of the big soldier city will gO along at full binst and in & very short time this big replacement camp will have Inrgo drafta ready to furnish othor divisions as they 'may ho needed. By November some of tie new building units will be ready for occupancy and the population of the army city will ho ma• terially Increased In consequence, J..A. Nipper, of Fort Wayne, Aocial accrotary of tho Y. M. C. A. No. 1, led a chorus of 6,000 colored men on the parnde grounds of the Eight Iundred and Twelfth Infantry Inst Sunday night and it' wns one of the best events of the kind ever carried out at the cantonment. Mr. Nipper is one of the Y. men in camp, and is doing most omclent work. Last Sunday ho conducted roligioue services In three different barracks.
Article from 27 Oct 1918The Indianapolis Star(Indianapolis, IN)
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