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Aug 14: 4 dead, 10 new cases on Ship
Aug 18: 21 new cases
Aug 20: Reports of Mild Cases
Sep 5: 2 Dead, 16 new cases
Sep 13: CITY IS NOT IN DANGER FROM SPANISH GRIP
Sep 14: Surgeon General Blue Says It Can Be Controlled Only by Intelligent Action of Public
Sep 17: 13 new cases on a Ship
Sep 19: 3 new cases
Sep 21: 31 new cases In New York
Sep 28: Cases in the city double; Number of Deaths in 24 Hours Equals Previous Total from July 1.
Oct 6: 61 Deaths
Oct 9: 2,503 new cases
Oct 11: 31,217 in the state
Oct 16: It is everywhere
Oct 21: 4,570 new cases, a drop of 305 cases over the preceding 24 hours.
Nov 14: It starts to wind down

SPANISH INFLUENZA HERE, SHIP MEN SAY; Officers of Norwegian Liner Attribute Four Deaths During Voyage to the Disease.10 OTHER PASSENGERS ILL Brooklyn Doctor Who Is Treating Them Says They Are Suffering with Pneumonia. 200 Passengers Ill at One Time. SPANISH INFLUENZA HERE, SHIP MEN SAY Health Officer Passed Ship.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Aug 14, 1918. pg. 1, 2 pgs

LINER HAD 5 DEATHS DUE TO INFLUENZA; Big Passenger Steamship Reports 21 Cases on Voyage to New York. VICTIMS WERE EAST INDIANS Chief Surgeon of New York Port of Embarkation Upholds Measures in Force Here.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Aug 18, 1918. pg. 9, 1 pgs

SPANISH INFLUENZA FOUND IN 'MILD FORM'; But Most of Stricken Voyagers Had Pneumonia or Bronchial Trouble, Says Dr. Copeland. TELLS REPORT OF EXPERTS Health Commissioner Lays Disease to Temperature Changes in Dodging U-Boats.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Aug 20, 1918. pg. 20, 1 pgs

INFLUENZA KILLS TWO ON LINER FROM EUROPE; Ship Detained Seven Hours and 16 Patients to be Sent to Hospitals for Observation.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Sep 5, 1918. pg. 22, 1 pgs

CITY IS NOT IN DANGER FROM SPANISH GRIP; Health Commissioner Says Persons Here Have Not Been Infected.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Sep 13, 1918. pg. 7, 1 pgs

TAKES STEPS TO STOP INFLUENZA SPREAD; Surgeon General Blue Says It Can Be Controlled Only by Intelligent Action of Public. GIVES ADVICE TO DOCTORS Makes Known Course of Treatment--More Cases at Boston--Disease Appears at Newport.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Sep 14, 1918. pg. 13, 1 pgs

MORE INFLUENZA FOUND.; Thirteen Cases on Vessel in Brooklyn Removed to Hospital.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Sep 17, 1918. pg. 24, 1 pgs

NEW YORK PREPARED FOR INFLUENZA SIEGE; Three Cases, Originating in the City, Reported--Health Department Takes Action.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Sep 19, 1918. pg. 11, 1 pgs
Three cases of Spanish influenza were reported to the Board of Health yesterday. They were not army or navy or incoming ship cases, but persons living on Manhattan Island, all in or near the middle section of Central Park West or in cross streets leading to it.

31 NEW INFLUENZA CASES IN NEW YORK; Health Department Begins a Campaign of Education to Combat the Disease. SEEK GERM OF THE MALADY Surgeon General Blue Asks State Health Authorities to Send Cultures for Study.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Sep 21, 1918. pg. 7, 1 pgs
Eighteen new cases of Spanish influenza were reported yesterday, five in Manhattan, eleven in Brooklyn, one in the Bronx, and one in Queens. Six of the Brooklyn cases were British sailors from an Australian ship lying alongside a Brooklyn pier

NEW INFLUENZA CASES IN THE CITY DOUBLED; Number of Deaths in Twenty-four Hours Equals Previous Total from July 1. HELP RUSHED TO BOSTON. Doctors and Nurses from Many Quarters to Combat Epidemic.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Sep 28, 1918. pg. 10, 1 pgs

DISEASE INCREASING HERE Sixty-one Deaths and More New Cases Yesterday--Permit Heat in Patients' Homes. First Real Test Tomorrow. REVISE TIME TABLE IN INFLUENZA FIGHT Will Not Affect Wall Street. Copeland Wants Nurses.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Oct 6, 1918. pg. 1, 2 pgs

INFLUENZA SHOWS SLIGHT GAINS HERE; Many Cases Reported Yesterday, Dr. Copeland Says, Cover 48-Hour Period. DIVIDING SUBWAY CROWDS Hospital Situation Canvassed by Health Officers—Vigilance Asked of All Citizens.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Oct 9, 1918. pg. 24, 1 pgs

Although there was an increase in the number of influenza and pneumonia cases reported yesterday, Dr. Royal S. Copeland, the Health Commissioner, was of opinion that the epidemic was at least stationary or making but slight progress. The number of new cases reported for the twenty-four hours that ended at 10 o'clock yesterday morning was 2,503.

31,217 CASES IN THE STATE.; State Health Officials to Plan Fight on Epidemic Here Today. No Gibbons Jubilee Celebration.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Oct 11, 1918. pg. 11, 1 pgs

GRIP NOW EPIDEMIC THROUGHOUT COUNTRY; While Camp Cases Decrease, Disease Spreads Rapidly Elsewhere and Death Toll Is High.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Oct 16, 1918. pg. 24, 1 pgs

INFLUENZA CASES DROP 305 IN CITY; Only 4,570 Reported by Doctors in the Last 24Hours.PHYSICIAN ASSAILS MAYOR Dr. Davin Calls Upon Hylan to Give Out the Names of Physicians He Accused of Profiteering. Must Furnish Heat.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Oct 21, 1918. pg. 12, 1 pgs
Spanish influenza statistics for the twenty-four hours that ended at 10 o'clock yesterday morning showed 4,570 new cases, a falling off of 305 cases over the preceding twenty-four hours. Weekend figures, however, have not been a true index of conditions, because some doctors wait until Monday before reporting their cases.

EPIDEMIC A THING OF PAST.; But Health Department Expects Scattering Cases for a Month.
New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Nov 14, 1918. pg. 12, 1 pgs