INFLUENZA TAKES TOLL OF 162 IN OCTOBER Deputy Registrar of Vital Statistics Mrs. E. B. Raffensparger has completed the death statistical report for the month of October which shows that 162 deaths occurred in the city during the month of October from influenza and its accompanying complications. The epidemic claimed an average of five deaths a day during October. Influenza, without any complications resulted in thirteen deaths. Influenza followed by pneumonia resulted in 106 deaths, while la grippe followed by pneumonia caused seven deaths. Pneumonia, without any contributory cause, resulted in thirty-six deaths. The influenza and pneumonia deaths swelled the total from all causes in October to 236 deaths, the death record being the largest of any one month for many years. The October record is more than four times the death rate of September, when but fifty-nine deaths occurred in the city. Logan township reported a total of forty-six deaths in October, including twenty-three males and twenty-three females, with thirty-one dying from influenza and pneumonia. Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday Morning, November 6, 1918 --------------------- And I think these figures are just for Altoona and Logan township. I haven't seen a report for the rest of the county yet. I just want to let folks who are hoping for obituaries from Nov. 2 through Nov. 4, 1918, that the Altoona Times microfilm for Nov. 4 and Nov. 5, from which I'm transcribing, is missing a lot of pages, including the main obituary pages for those dates, and of course there was not a Sunday newspaper (Nov. 3). I found an Altoona Mirror death index for 1918 here - http://www.rootsweb.com/~pabcgs/deaths-1918-m-z.html - in case you need to order an obituary for that time period. Judy Banja Blair County PA USGenWeb Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/blair/