Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1918-10-11 | Page 2 | Red Cross will Fight Infuenza

RESOURCES OF GREAT MERCY ORGANIZATION TO BE USED TO COMBAT EPIDEMIC. Surgeon General Blue Suggests to State Health Officers That Schools and Places of Amusement be Closed fcr a Time. Washington. .Mobilization of the full forces of the American Ked Cross to combat the epidemic of Spanish influenza in-fluenza whicli rapidly is spreading over the country, was determined upon Monday and instructions sent to all chapters. In co-operation with the public health service and the state hoards of health, I he ; Ked Cross will enroll nurses and will freely use Its accumulated accu-mulated hospital supplies to light the epidemic. A call also will he made for volunteers to go into the homes where mothers and housekeepers are 111 and assume the management of the household. In a further effort to curb the spread of the disease. Surgeon General Blue of the puhlic health service has suggested to ull state health officers that' Schools and places of amusement be closed and public meetings discontinued discon-tinued in ull places where the malady becomes prevalent. Importance of reporting re-porting cases also was urged by Dr. Blue. Reports to the public health service showed both that the disease Is spreading spread-ing and that the number of cases reported re-ported where it had been prevalent heretofore is increasing.