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N Y Is Serious New York Oct 18 The Tho Tho scarcity o ot of nurses Is 18 BO so great in this thin city that to todeal todeal deal with tho the Spanish Influenza epidemic epidemic epidemic epi epi- demic Health Commis Commissioner loner Copeland tonight appealed to business anti anil professional professional pro pro- men to volunteer to work In hi night shifts In tho hospitals to ro- ro 1100 nurses who have been on duty for tor many hours at a stretch At a meeting of or tho the women's emergency cmor- cmor gency committee an appeal for nurses Will waa read from rom Governors Governor's Island hospital hos hos- hospital pital where It was said hundreds of soldiers Buffering inu frum front Influenza were housed with only one trained d nurse lucare to tu care for Cor them The Thc health department announced cd to today today to- to day tIny that a scale of or wages for tor nurses and unbilled helpers had bp been n drawn Continued on Pi PIK a S C C. 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S MOWED BY INFLUENZA Continued From Page Pape 1 un up which provided that the former Cormer should r receive o not more moro than 1 Ii I a day dayn n nid id the latter 53 3 3 Th The Tt health department depart depart- meat ment also announced that It Is Investigating hiVes In alleged profiteering In funerals funer als h by undertakers s taking advantage of oC the tho epidemic pl In asserting that he ho had not changed chan his hili mind about keeping the tho schools open Dr Copeland said tH investigation Indicated that more than half halt of or th thI the tiC absentees ab wro not attending school chool because of or fear r of ot influenza held heid by 11 their parents and not because the children chil chil- dren were Ill III liven en If It more teachers ill he sai said he deemed it BO ao jUM ar to keep children In school and under supervision that It ml might ht be necessary ry to call In entertainers Former Health Commissioner Gol Goldwater Gold Gold- water tonight ht urged cl that the tic public schools bo ho closed at once Dr Copeland today toda wrote the tho heads of oC the transportation companies In this city asserting that he ho was W not satis- satis fled fId with the tho conditions of oC ventilation In the tho cars and that although possibly bl bly I may concede that crowding la S at It times unavoidable I can enn never nevor concede that free freo ventilation I Is at an any time timo Im mm- mm possible Rear Admiral Usher today toda Issued or orders orders or- or ders lers to all nil officers and anel enlisted men un under er his Jurisdiction to keep out of oC the subway and underground tubes tubs un until un- un til II the Spanish Influenza epidemic has abated Influenza Grows s GrosIn In Foreign Clinics Climes II Washington ton Oct IS Cable Information inform inform- thou tion from Spain Italy and Mexico re received received re- re by tho the United States public health service tod today reports continued growth roth of or the Influenza epidemic emic In In those countries The disease is still general g throughout through through- out Spain Latest reports state It Is Isnow Isnow isnow now accompanied by typhoid In 11 Italy a I tho the Spanish fever Cever CeverS asit ns S SIt It Is called there Is reported as lS becoming becom becom- ing In alarming An estimate to placed the number of oC cases prevailing In Palermo at Many deaths have occurred throughout Ital Italy The Tho malady has s made madG Its appearance In several of ot tho the principal 1 mining towns of oC Mexico I Chicago Kids KiIS Must lust I II I Play in iii Back Yards Chicago Oct IS Dack Dack yards ar s must mus bo be tho e of ot Chicago children at 1 pin play as the result of or a police order ordel Is Issued Isuel Is- Is I sued uel toda today as IS another steD step In checkIng checking check check- ing hug the spread of oC influenza Earlier In the tho day dllY Health Commissioner Hob Hob- j directed a general vaccination of c Chicagoans with antitoxin i IChic Chief Chic of oC Police Alcocks Alcock's s 's order directed direct direct- ed that policemen shoo all children off ott i the tho streets and disperse street corner j gatherings g s and anti crowds of ot all kinds Reports received today for twenty twenty- four hours showed an increase In deaths and a decrease in now new cases caes of or influenza and pneumonia The fl figures ures were New ew cases Influenza 1917 l pneumonia decrease 76 Deaths influenza pneumonia increase In Increase In- In crease 19 lt A blood serum scrum used as a curative In the tho cast east only In desperate cases of or influenza In- In a will be tried out In Chicago and Illinois the state influenza commission commission com corn mission a agreed rree tonight The Tho commission commis sion slon Is faced with a difficult problem to obtain tho the curative In sufficient I quantity as It was stated state that eight ounces of ot blood must he be taken from a patient who has SUI e survived the malad malady to o 0 produce three ounces of or serum The Tho commission received hand first 1 reports report of or experiments of or this serum t from om Dr Herman N. N Bundesen of ot the tho Chicago o health d department who re returned returned re- re turned today from front a an eastern trip The Tho commission laid emphasis on tho the that tho the serUm scrum should not be confused con con- fused with ith the vaccine now v In use The vaccine Is a preventive e and the tho serum scrum Is u used ed as a a. curative only in cr very bad badI cases I I San Francisco San Francisco Oct IS 11 All theatres and nd motion mollon picture houses In 11 tho the state were ordered closed today b b the state board of oC health as a result of or the Spanish Influenza epidemic Schools and churches will wll remain open except In cities where hero the they have already been closed b by local authorities the tho tho board an announced Six hundred and fourteen new cases of oC Spanish influenza were reported to health authorities today tod bringing this his city's total to cases Twenty deaths were tere reported making a lot total l of oC seventy to date dite El EI Paso El P Paso Pao so Oct 18 Efforts I Efforts of or tho the health department to 1 keep a record of the Spanish l cases were temporarily tem tern abandoned today because e the thc doctors were so overworked they did not have time to report cases Tho epidemic now nois' I H is centered in tho can quarter arler Nine Ine deaths occurred there thero today There were seven deaths at the lie Fort Bliss mis base hospital during during- the past pant our four hours and nine nino deaths were vere reported from Juarez Mexico op or- or here hero Denver Denver Oct IS Little 18 Little material chan change o In the Influenza situation wa was waR I noted either cither b by state slate or elt city health authorities tocla today In Denver twenty additional deaths dath were reported during the past twenty four hours hour N Nebraska Lincoln Neb eb Oct 18 Continued 18 Continued spread of or influenza In Nebraska ka was Indicated d in a statement bv liv the tile stat star board of or health Approximately tl I I non no cases were reported to 0 the lite board |