New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-20
Influenza Crest
Reached in CITY,
Says Copeland
Continued from Rage /

Slocum. lent by Colonel L. NJ. Talbot
to thc Health Department for emerg-
ency hospital service, were RECALLED
yesterday. After fruitIess appeals to
military officials the Commissioner tel
ePhoncd Secretary Tumulty and asked
the President to Interfere.
These men arc attending 200 cases
IN tic Municipal Lodging House, he
SAID. III they arc taken away now
many OF our patients will die. The cpl
dcmlc viii be ended by Thursday, and
VIC can releas Tim TIM"
Earlier III the day. Is t; result of a
recently issued order, the government
took over the PolycTiuic HOSPITAL for
military u9s. Armed sentrie5 refused
to admit civilian casey, and several
loaded ambulances were kept waiting
III the street. 4 counterm anding order
was scared later through Colonel ].
NJ. Kennedy, Physician OF the Port of
Entry, and the city was granted the
the period Oh emergency.
AS result OF u conference with the
Emergency Advisory Committee Dr..
Copeland announced tho schools and
theatres CT Manhattan will not be
closed
81 consider it really essential that
The schools be kept open," said the
Commissioner. "Thc majority Of chill
dren como from the oVcrcrowded dis
trcts OF the city, and we have decided
that they are much better off in the
cclassrooms than in stutTy. poorly ven
tilated rooms at home. Thus far the
death rate among school children has
been very small, and this is due prob
ably TO The Watchful care under which
The children work
Even # 80 per cent. OF tho pupils
az cahseut we shall keep the schools
running for the remainder | am Of
the opinion that fear and not disease
is Responsible for the large number Of
absentees reported by the schools and
service vorporations.'
Physicians Approve Vaccine
cports from physicians using tho in
fuenza vaccine led the Health Depart.
ment to reccomend an extensive use
OF the rew serum. The following state
ment was issued:
"Whlc tho department al present
cannot commit itself to the .etioogy
that is. the causes of the disease,
and although the vaccine has been in
use for only about two weeks. the re-
suits thus far obtained are suggestive
Our optimism as to its value, however,
IS based upon reports received Care
full analysis of all the factors con-
ccrned cannot be made until the cpl
demic is concluded, and our present de-
gree foptimism may or may not be
found to be well grounded. At all
events. the reports Justify its more cx-
tensive use.
ut is our opinion that when large
groups of people are brought closely
together. or where an Individual is
under the necessity of coming into
Intimate contact with crowds of
people or persons infected with the
disease, the vaccine offers hope of i'm
munity against the disease. Whether
or not it shall be employed must be
determined by the individual, but there
have ben no instances of untoward or
Ill effects. and it is our opinion it de-
serves as extensive a trial as the rate
OF production of the vaccine will per
nit
New York City physicians Will be
supplied with this vaccine, in reason
able quantities. on application to the
Department of Health Laboratories
sixteenth Street and East River.''
At meeting Of 200 leading ministera
Of Brooklyn an appeal was issued to
chrrch members to volunteer their ser.