EPIDEMIC OF BRONCHOPNEUMONIA AT CAMP GRANT, ILL.

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Abstract
Sept. 21, 1918, an epidemic disease characterized by a sore or dry throat, cough, fever, general prostration, and in a certain number of patients by a rapidly progressing pneumonia, broke out at Camp Grant. While the date September 21 is given as the day of onset during which fifty-six patients were admitted to the base hospital, there had been about fifteen or twenty patients admitted during the three or four days immediately preceding with symptoms identical, and had been considered to have "influenza." The rapidity with which the disease spread can be appreciated best by reviewing the number of hospital admissions on the days succeeding the onset of the epidemic, indicated in Chart 1. The first death occurred on the third day, and the postmortem examination confirmed the clinical diagnosis of bronchopneumonia. The number of deaths on the subsequent days of the epidemic are indicated in Chart 2. Practically all

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