The influenza has, we hope, passed its worst and begun
its decline. It is spreading in range, diminishing in intensity. It seems to have got a good hold in England now, but to visit chiefly places where there is a good deal of congregated life. It spreads at the East End, gets a strong hold of hospitals,— St. Bartholomew's, for instance, is very much overweighted with it,—and attacks all the larger places of trade. In Paris the death-rate is declining at last ; and even in Vienna influenza was reported yesterday to be less virulent, though it is even asserted that more than 40 per cent. of the whole population have suffered or are suffering from it. At Marseilles, too, it is raging with great severity, and in Canada and the States it appears to be still graver in type. In New York the deaths had suddenly sprung up from 146 on Monday, to 235 on Tuesday, and 250 on Wednesday, but on Thursday there was some decrease. It would seem that nowhere has the ,epidemic assumed so serious a character as on the great Western Continent.
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