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Show MASSACHUSETTS IN TO OF A!0 Direct Appeal Made to Wilson, New England Governors and Toronto Mayor. INFLUENZA SPREADING j Boston Calls for More Nurses and Doctors to Check Epidemic. BOSTON, Sept. 2G. Massachusetts, which has always responded llherally and quickly to requests for help from stricken communities in all parts of the world, is tonight itself in need of outside nld io check tho spread of influenza in-fluenza and pneumonia. Direct appeal for assistance to President Pres-ident Wilson, Governor Graham of Vermont; Governor Millikcn of Maine; Governor Beckman of Rhode Island, and the mayor of Toronto, Canada, was made tonight hy Lieutenant Governor Gov-ernor Coolidge, who acted for Governor Gover-nor McCall. To these offlcials ho sent this telegram: tele-gram: "Massachusetts. Is urgently in need of additional doctors and nurses to check growing epidemic of influenza. Our doctors and nurses are being thoroughly thor-oughly mobilized and worked to the limit Many cases can receive no attention at-tention whatever. Hospitals are full but arrangements can bo madeior outside out-side facilities. Earnestly solicit your Influence In obtaining for us this needed need-ed assistance in any way you can." New Hampshire and Connecticut were not asked to send help because of the prevalence of influenza in those stalos. To the mayor of Toronto. Lieutenant Governor Collidge said the state would greatly appreciate any assistance he could render in tho way of sendiDg nurses here. Tho one-day death record of the epidemic in Boston Avas exceeded today to-day tho mortality reports showing 123 deaths from influenza and thirty-three from pneumonia. The largest previous total for one day was 109 on September Septem-ber 24. Since September 14 there have been 853 deaths in this city. State Health Commissioner -Eugene R. Kelley has urged the war department depart-ment to postpone the induction of college col-lege students into barracks under tho student army training corps plan until the emergency has passed. Emergency hospitals are being put Into service in many places. The state health department tonight to-night Issued a statement regarding control of tho disease. The nrincinal warning was to avoid crowds and seek medical advice as soon as sickness developed. de-veloped. nn |