The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 10

ID' TH, xViiLCLiPlilA INQUIRER, TUESDAY MORNING, OGTOiR 8, 1918 HOLDS If! FLUENZA ports that side entrances are being allowed open for favored customers of saloons and that wholesalers have been selling liquors without physicians' orders. ary, the others having recovered. Most of these are light cases and only five new cases have been reported to Lieutenant Aronvvitz, since Friday. There has been but one death among the students, that being Bee Roach, of Georgetown, who died Secretary of State Everett C. Johnson is ill with the influenza at his home near Newark.

J- AT ITS GUEST Krusen Makes Statement. 115 Deaths and 5561 New Cases Reported in 48 Hours SHENANDOAH ATTEMPTS TO PREVENT EPIDEMIC Special to The Inauirer. I SHENANDOAH, Oct. 7. This city so far has escaped the "flu" epidemic.

A total of thirty cases were reported today, which is considered re i a WILMINGTON FATALITIES FEWER THAfc ESTIMATED Special to The Jwj AVILMINGTOM, Oct. 7. According to the hetalth authorities here the influenza situation is considerably better. It is not- believed there will be many more new cases. Doctors and nurses from the' arnty have been ordered here.

The records of the health office for; the as.t nine days, since the epidemic started, show 174 deaths, of which number probably 300 were from pneumonia brought on by influenza. TIwb number is much smaller than had bonen insisted upon by niany persons, but is about three times the number of deaths for the same period last year. Numerous patients have been discharged from the hospitals. The fear is entertained that some of them who may not have recovered entirely will contract pneumonia. The Homeopathic Hospital's new section was today taken over by the P.oard of Health so that victims of the disease may be treated there.

Emergency Hospitals Multiply Fourth -Year Medical Students Fight Epidemic Health, said that in his judgment the malady had not reached its height. He was overjoyed at the drop in temperature which came in the afternoon, stating that dry snappy weather would do much toward eliminating the, epidemic. Dr. Davis" estimates that there ate f)00 cases of the disease in Camden. Most of the physicians are too busy to file reports, but those already in hand show over 1000 cases.

Forty of the worst cases were under treatment last night in the emergency hospital established in the armory of Battery B. for the most part being sufferers who had been unable to secure medical attention. What few trained nurses were available are being assisted by prominent women, both in nursing and the preparation of meals. The Mayor's committee in charge of the hospital issued an appeal for donations of cribs fur- the children and- also ap-. pealed for mbre Women to volunteer their services! Dr.

Thomas Bee is directing the work at. the emergency Abandoning "its outimtient department the managers of Cooper Hospital turned, the first floor of the new building into a pneumonia ward and last night- fifty sufferers were under treatment: there with Dr. A. II. Bippincott in charge.

Eighteen members of the nurses' staff Cooper are down with influenza and the yiti re first floor of the nurses' home is being vised as a hospital for them. School teachers are filling in the gap and are also acting in like capacity at the Homeopathic which is utilizing every available bit of room for the care of sufferers. The Homeopathic Hospital-last night made- an' appeal for donations of fruit, jellies and preserves for the pneumonia victiiis. TELEPHONE "KliIonii( influenza in Philadelphia has rcaelird its crest, I believe," was tlio declaration made yesterday by 1)L-rer-tor Wilmer Krusen. of the Department of.

Health and Charities, who is onductins' local activities for wiping Diree- made by the re- following deaths been 115 lit lie disease. The statement was -r Krusen yesterday p.rt that there had nuii r.lGl new eases ported within the hours. lie explained. of influenza re-last forty-eight, however, that as CONDITIONS IMPROVE AT DELAWARE COLLEGE markable in view of the congested conditions existing here. Many physicians from here, have gone to Miners-ville, Frackville and Girardville, where the spread of the epidemic is alarming.

Dr. C. rubier, president of the Board of Health, today notified business men that all stores must be closed prior to A. M. and after o'clock in the evening.

He also notified Superintendent Cooper, of the public schools, to discontinue all school sessions indefinitely. This drastic action was made necessary in the hope of preventing the same intolerable conditions existing in nearby towns. Funfls to Meet Railroad Bonds WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. As a means of keeping interest rates from soaring, the Ran1 road Administration hereafter will lend railroads funds at 'sir per cent, to meet maturing bonds when they find it impracticable to get money elsewhere "at a rate of interest which the Director General may feel warranted in approving." ample security will be required.

This policy, announced today, heretofore has been followed in a few cases where banks required more than six per cent, to renew railroad obligations. made on Sunday the Th returns were of Vital Statistics has not coin-j Ji'ted its totals. new cases are distributed throughout the eity as follows: South J'huadelphin. fiOl North Philadelphia (from Market street). riOSli; West Philadelphia, lll-J.

aml and Oak Lane sections, "Ml. GLOUCESTER REPORTS SITUATION IMPROVED NEWARK, Oct. 7. Although there have been Y. cases among the 425 members of the Delaware College Students' Army Training Corps and the Industrial Training Camp made up of conscripts from Pennsylvania, conditions are gradually improviug, according to Lieutenant Aronwitz, the army surgeon in This is due to the college closing, allowing all students not ill to return home last week and the strict quarantine maintained over the members of the training camp.

Of the 1H. rases only 52 remain in Harter Hall and the infirm- spaial ta.The GEO UC ESTEIi, N. Board of. Health was tion todav to handle Oct. 7.

The in a better posi-the outbreak of The gravity of the situation has compelled this letter from the Director of the Department of Public Health and Charities. influenza than at any time since the nTl 1 11 Mi 1 I 1 1 1 "if TV orn in its form Read it carefully! epidemic started. Eight, physicians were' kept busy a'l day. The three trained arrived from Columbus, Ohio, were placed in charge ot the emergency rospital in the fire house and the other nurses were given an opportunity to work about the city. Dr.

E. W. Scott, of the United States Public Health Service. Washington, arrived last night and with Dr. Eouis Schwartz, of the Bureau of Immigration, was instructed by Surgeon (Ieneral Blue to assist the health authorities in every possible way on account of the serious condition of the shipyard workers.

After visiting HO homes and finding the existing condition. Dr. Scott telephoned to Dr. Treadway. of Trenton, who was sent from Washington to take care of the situation in New Jersey, saying that conditions bad in Gloucester and that doctors and nurses are needed.

Dr. Treadway informed him that a requisition had been sent in for 25 extra nurses and doctors and that some will be sent to Gloucester. The immigration station will be used as a hospitul and oO civilian patients will be sent there. There are now 22 United States solJiers in the detention house down with "the disease. They Were doing duty at the Gloucester shipyards.

choicest i I INFLUENZA TAKES NEW GRIP ON WOODBURY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND CHARITIES L. H. Kinnard, Vice President and General Manager. The Bell Telephone Co. of Pa.

fr7 Crisp, tender WOODBURY, N. Oct. 7. According to the local physicians who thought yesterday that influenza was abating here, scores of new cases were "unofficially" reported today. None of the doctors have had time, they say, to make out official reports of the new-cases as required by the rules of the Board of Health.

From what could be learned today the situation is far worse than yesterday or the day before. One of the doctors reported cases in the past two days. Councilman W. R. G.

Rowland, of the First ward, died carotins morning. Mrs. Rowland is critically ill. actis'rv' with, -their de- liciouis drlacvor W1 EASTON SEEKS AID Take Every Precaution All possible' precautions against further spread of the epidemie have been taken by the city health officials. and i.ienarations made for the care of patients through the establishmeut of Muergeuoy hospitals.

Philip II. Johnson, rriliitect for the Department of Health, announced yesterday that the electric current had been turned on in the old Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, a new boiler installed, and that the old Itospital abandoned to make way for the-Parkway, would probably be open-pu todav as'Emergency Hospital No. 2. Pro Her "was made of the house of the Twenty-sixth Ward Republican Club at hroad'aml Tasker streets, for an Pmer-gcnr-v hospital: as was also the build-in of the Divinity School, at Fiftieth street and Woodland avenue. More than M(M) fourth-year students from the University of Pennsylvania, Jefferson ColVge and Hahnemann College medical sXhools have been recruited to aid the overworked physicians of the city in their battle against the spread of the disease.

Fourth-year students from the University of Pennsylvania have been assigned to the new Emergency Hospital No. while those of the Hahnemann College, under the direction of Dean William A. will be assigned to Hahnemann Hospital, which is also to be used as an emergency hospital. Will Flush Streets Chief Hicks, of the Street Cleaning Bureau, and Chief Carleton K. Davis, of the Water Bureau, have arranged for Hushing the streets with water as an additional sanitary precaution.

The flushing of the streets, which will be at night, is to begin immediately. The first ward in which the flushing will take place is the Thirty-ninth, located in South Philadelphia, and will spread into the adjoining First. Second. Third. Fourth wards and the western end of the Thirtieth ward, in the vicinity of the Naval Hospital.

Special appeal has been made to all hospitals in the city to discontinue the practice of selective cases and take only influenza patients. Medical specialists have also been requested for the present to become general practitioners until the present emergency demand for physicains has been caught up with. Director Krusen, to aid in relieving the strain on the telephone systems of the city yesterday sent the following letter to L. II. Kinnard.

vice president anil general manager of the Bell Telephone Company: "I am advised that by reason of the increasing shortage of operators due to epidemic influenza, you will be. forced within a very short lime to close- certain of your telephone central offices. "I am further advised that such action can be avoided only if the public will refrain from making all calls not required by war work, sickness, or other absolute necessity. "Therefore, in the interest of pub-lie welfare and of individual health you are hereby directed to take such steps as will deny service from all telephones observed to be used for the making of unessential calls. "(Inly by the vigorous pursuit of such a course may the continuance of service be guaranteed to those now and hereafter suffering from the Saloon Order to Stand "There is no intention of recalling the anti-congregating and saloon closing order.

We are enforcing it everywhere and as times goes on it may become stricter if it is necessary' said Dr. B. F. lioyer, acting commissioner of health, yesterday, when asked about reports that the order might be rescinded. "I cannot say when the ban will be lifted.

The reports that it was to be changed probably grew out of the arrangements we are making for sale of stimulants on prescriptions of medical Details of the organization of the. seventeen nursing districts into which the state has been divided were worked out by Commissioner lioyer and bureau chiefs at a conferenc yesterday. They will be in charge of nurses who have just returned from Massachusetts and the work of organization in communities will be handled by nurses from the Health and other experienced nurses from various sections of the state. Offer Clubhouse The Clubhouse of the Philopatrian I literary Society, at 1411 Arch street, was yesterday proffered to the Health i'uthorities for use as an emergency hospital. It will accommodate seventy-jive beds': Archbishop lKugherty has nsrigned sister nurses to this new emergency hospital, as well as teachers from parochial schools, all of which are closed to assist the nurses.

Fifty-eight new cases and seven deaths from influenza were recorded yesterday in the Fourth Naval District, together with twenty-one new-cases of pneumonia. The total deaths in the Fourth Naval District since the outbreak of the epidemic now number 3 71; the total new cases, S097, and the total number of pneumonia cases grow TO COMBAT INFLUENZA! rr fed jo; NELLENBURG CO. Sprrinl io Thr, Inquirer. EASTON, Oct. 7 With thirty-one additional deaths from influenza reported today, doctors admitted that the epidemic had grown to such alarming proportions that they are no longer able- to cope with the situation.

Dr. J. J. Condran. health officer, wired to Dr.

Royer. acting Health Commissioner, for help and the latter promised to send physicians to Easton if he was able to obtain them. it was necessary for the prison inspectors to call for volunteers among the prisoners in the county jail yesterday and today to dig graves in the cemeteries. The local Red Cross issued a call for 20O women to volunteer to nurse the sick. Court business was halted and the term of Civil Court scheduled for next Monday has been continued for at least two weeks.

Dear Sir: I am. advised that by reason of the increasing, shortage of operators due to epidemic influenza, you will be forced within a very short time to close certain of your telephone central offices. I am further advised that such action can be avoided only if the public will refrain from making all calls not required bv war work, sickness or other absolute necessity. 7 ml Therefore, in the interest of public welfare and of individual health you are hereby directed to take such steps as will deny service from all telephones observed to be used for the making of unessential calls. Only by the vigorous pursuit of such a course may the continuance of service be guaranteed to those now and hereafter suffering from the epidemic.

Yours very truly, WILMER. KRUSEN, Oct. 7. 1918. Director.

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