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Show ID CROSS ILL RBHTJPHIC Resources of Mercy , Organization Or-ganization to Combat the Influenza. Disease Spreading in All Directions; Health Boards Are Active. WASHINGTON. Oct. T.-.Mn-.iMl.on of the f,i,l ioice of the Ameihitn I'M ('ri.-s ;o combat the epldemi.- of Spdn:M) inM'i-tj.A inM'i-tj.A whi. h rapidly is (vpie.-id.ng o er the rnun'rv. determined upon toi.iy and m-itrurtlons send to all chapter. In ro.ope:a:iitn with the puhlic hen-h ser 1. e j it j the v.ute boards of health, 'he P.ed Gross, will emoj nurses and w;ll freely ue its c u :nu! a ted ho pi ; tt 1 sup-plie sup-plie to fight the epidemic. A call also will L'e made for volunteers to ko Into t..e Loine where mother and housekeeper housekeep-er .i a r e t;i and assume the management of i nn household. In a farther ef fort to purn the sp: ead of the diseane. S ;rgeon- gene ral Plje of tn public h.;!;h service today usgi?td t-) ad aate heai t h officers thai r-.mols and p' ace s of a mi: semen; be closed and P'.b lc meetings discontinued in ail places nhrr? : he nmlidy be-'omrs prcalrnt. Im-po: Im-po: ? nee o report;r jc i aacs e.'.s w as u:rc 1 I t. Disease Spreading. Kepor;s today lo the pun!.- health ser-vi;e ser-vi;e showed botli that the disease Is spreading anl that the number of case rrixirted where It had been prevalent heretofore is increasing. This, however, was not the situation in army camps, the number of new rases reported during he forty-eight hours ending at noon to-j day showing a slight decrease. . Pneu- , mnnia In th camps continued to Increase, with 4 532 new cases and 13SS deaths report re-port ed since Saturday. Influenza cases reported from all camps since the disease became epidemic September Sep-tember l" now total 157,000; pneumonia cases. lt.lOC and deaths -1M0. Camp Podge, Iowa , reported t h largest number of new influenza caes during the forty-eight forty-eight -h our period to noon today, with 3(f'2 rases; Gamp Funston, Kan,, the next largest. 2070. While influenza ehows abatement at Gamp Meade. Md.. and Gamp Lee. Va.. pneumonia cases at the former numbered S 144 with ll.i deaths, and at the latter S-"i7, with 71 deaths. Gamps Grant. III., and Sherman, Ohio, also reported increased in-creased number of pneumonia cases. Cities Ask Aid. Many calls for aid from cities were received re-ceived today by the public health sendee, and doctors and nurses are being dispatched dis-patched as rapidly as Js possible. Thus far a total of lf2 physicians have been sent out." 130 going to Massachusetts alone. Reports today indicated that the Massachusetts situation w as slightly improved. im-proved. I Nurses, aids or anyone w Ith experience : in nursing were asked today by Dr. Blue to put themselves at the disposal of tho government. Dr. Blue also asked practicing physicians physi-cians in general and specialists in particular par-ticular to release from attendance on chronic cases and all other cases which are not critically i'll every nurse working under their direction who can possibly be spared temporarily for duty. The only state added to thelist today in which the diseaso lias become;epidemic was "Washington, many cases being reported re-ported from Seattle. The malady is now in epidemic form in eight southern states and also in parts ofthe middle west as well as in "New England, parts of New York and New Jersey. Effect of the influenza epidemic on the industry was emphasized today by an announcement an-nouncement of the ordance department of the army that appeals had been sent to the workers in the 33O0 munitions plants over the country asking them to speed up so that there may be no decrease in the output of munitions needed by the army, in France. Malady on Shipboard. A CUBAN PORT, Oct. 7. The malady which caused the death of twenty-two passengers on the Spanish liner Alfonso XII was an extremely violent type of. Spanish Influenza, with pulmonary complications, com-plications, Pr. Juan Guiteras of the Cuban Cu-ban commission on infectious diseases announced today, after an investigation. The steamer is being held in quarantine. Tho Spanish liner arrived here Sunday. Nineteen persons died on the voyage and f ive have died since the ship readied port. Two persons, crazed by suffering, committed suicide during the voyage. F. A TON ROUG E, l.fl. , Oc L 7. The stale board of health tod a y issued an (Continued on Paae Eight.) RED CROSS WILL FIGHT EPIDEMIC (Cop-tinned from Pago One.) order closing ail s hoola. churches and tneaiem In luton Rouge and forbidding any publij a.wmMtce because of the prevalence here of Spanish influenza-Sever.'v influenza-Sever.'v caes were reported today among student at Louisiana State university. ATLANTA. Ga . Oct. 7. On recommendation recommen-dation of the sate board of health, iocttl authorities today ordered ail schoo.s. theaters, churches an1 other rlaces of pubiie gathering c'oa-d immediately, to preent a spread of Influenia. KANSAS CITY. Ot. 7. Gl'y authorities authori-ties todav ordered a'd schools, theater and churches closed. In an efTort to check the rap'd apread of Influenxa here. Public Pub-lic gatherings al which more than twen-ty-fU'e persons are in allenuar.ee are barred. Deaths at Camp Grant. CAMP GRANT, III., Oct. 7. The number num-ber of dca'hs from rneumor.la at Camp Grant from midnight Fiturdav to mid-nit mid-nit i Sur.day n&i lie. T-.irty-etght deaths were reported from midnicht to 11 o'clock this forenoon. It was announced that ther are now ICS'1 pneumonia caees In the base hospital. There is a derreae dallv in the number of new tnnuenx-a cases. Spreads in Philadelphia. I'll l LA DFLPHT A. Oct. 7. Tn r a mnMnuH to spread rapidly throughout Phllaueiphia and 13 environs today. 1'Hjr-Irr 1'Hjr-Irr the forty-etthl hojrs endei at noon, h'.' new cases w e re re por t e1 to Ihe hoard of hea th. In the same period there were more than 4va deaths from inrtuenxa and pneumonia. It is estimated bv city authorities that there have Iwn l7i,0.-6 cases; since ihe epldomlo began. NORKOl.K. Va.. O'-t. 7 Farber shops, pool rooms aii'l soft drink establishments were closed to-lay an hen'.tii authorities authori-ties recei d reports sbo iug 400 new cases of Spanish Inrtuenra and twenty-six twenty-six deaths. Schools and theaters wcr closrd last week. The situation here is retarded as serious because of tho large number er sa llor and e--Mier on fur-louKh fur-louKh from near-by navaj bases and camps. V.L TASO, Texas. Oct. 7 Seven deaths occurred t Fort It Hps since yesteiMay. of I r, fluent., mskinc a total of sixteen deaths In the I'l Paso military district. There are now fS0 cases in the hospital, of which llf developed since yeeienlay. There were IM returned to duty tivtay A toial of twenty deaths has occurred heir and at the fort since the epidemic reached here. Schools, dance hails and theaters remained cioed Unlay. Seven Deaths in Omaha. CM A 71 A. Neb., Oct. 7. Seven deaths nnd "Oi new canes ot Spanish Influenja. making a total of over IhuV, ia the rejwrt of 11 call h Commissioner Manning thla mot ul nn. The epidemic rout inues to spread nnd according to the health official's of-ficial's report there Is o-er I rs cases of pneumonia which have developed from the infhienrn. The quanuitme baji has not been lifted. WASHINGTON. Oct. 7 because of the Spanish Influenia epidemic in WAsh-i WAsh-i nn ton. all galleries of congress except the press gftllerlos were closed today and visitors ei Cpt lawyers were barred" from the supremo court. Kvn the president's Kiillerks in the house and senate were closed. PKWV'n. Colo., tvt. 7 Se en additional addi-tional deaths fi-om Spanish Inriuen. were report ed up to noon tod a y in 1 Vnw r. The disease contiinied to spread thiouub-out thiouub-out lha slrtte, tiovernor liunter announced he v on hi ask all clt les to close public 1 places as soon hs the disrasa ppeatr-d ' Colorado Springs and Vucbio closed all I public, places today. I State Hoard Acts. ' HOWLING GHKKN. Ky . Oct. 7 - - In I view of the situation ere. i led by the ' widespread eptleinle of iufluenr the1 Kentucky stiUe board of health has Issued I a proclamation closing all place of ;,nnie-nient, ;,nnie-nient, schools, churches and other places of assemhly. ' t ntnvibrrK, p. I., ,vt. 7. r.uinig! the forty-eicht hours ending nt noon to-ilny to-ilny M'ti r:iM"i of Influenra were reported In this city. Fifty-eiiiht death h-ive been report' d in (he state since cMerduv Schools nn.l IhoatetN were closed ,m..v' TrlaU nnd henrln;s h, tin superior coui I have been poMpmirtl for one week. ACHfSTA. Maine. vt. 7 -The sl;l,e I comniUloi.er ot b.iiltb todnv that I tho epidemic of Influenta. In bis opinion. i was gradually Increasing In Maine, but not to an alarming extent. At Swane island, a town of 600 people, near Bar Hiu-bor, nearly every inhabitant is said to be ill as well as the only doctor on the island. MFLWACTCEE, Oct. 7. With 214 new cases of fcjnanish influenza reported today, there is a total of 3 cases and six deaths since October L The death, toll to date la twenty-six. Health Commissioner R.uhland has agked the common council ,for an appropriation of $10,000 for th establishment of isolation isola-tion nospiUuls. |
