The state has already closed all the vaudeville and picture houses, theaters, and saloons in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia businessmen are up in arms about the epidemic.
More cases mean more employee absences and fewer customers.
It is no longer business as usual, but business if possible. It is every person's duty to the community to cut out every call that is not absolutely necessary that the essential needs of the government, doctors and nurses may be cared for. Worried Philadelphians, wearing gauze influenza masks over their noses and mouths, quickly cross to the other side of the street if a passerby chances to cough or sneeze. Weeping women in West Manayunk block the car of Dr. Joseph Schlotterer, who is making a house call, and permit him to leave only after he treats 57 neighborhood children. Frantic shoppers strip pharmacy shelves bare.