Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-13
314 NEW FLU CASES
| REPORTED IN CITY
Seventeen Deaths Before Noon.
Officials Say Probably 16,-
600 Sufferers Here.
$500 IN TOWN OF PULASKI
Bristol Has Many Patients, but
Few Deaths-No Evidence
Yet of Abatement.
$500 IN TOWN OF PULASKI

There are no indications here OF the
abatement OF the ravages of the plague
hnown as Spanish influenza. The rcport
OF 3l4 new cases by noon yesterday
Drought the total to date to 4278 II.
as is contendcd by some officials. only
one-fourth or one-third the cases have
oeen reported, there must be between
i-'ooo and $1,000 cases Of the battling
i!lness IN this city. By noon yesterday,
OF twenty-five deaths reported, seven
teen OF the victims had gone west with
the influenza. The day before showed
the demise OF twenty-one patients suf-
'erinE from grippe. The total number
or deaths from this single malady Is
now 1S2
the herceaess Of the disease, while
nc nio'Eeaole n,G. erGrywhers., seems to vary
lasSi seems to have suffered the fate
OF Sodom in comparison with some
Etnet Gt towns, Bristol, for example: Pu-
pie. yet there are. according to reports.
a record OF nearly nifty deaths and ..
o 800 cases in that town. Bristol. on the
GdGjns5ssy' djes5ssy hh while & being rayished by the
Norfolk. West Point. the naval base
and Camp Lee have been ill-starred
and have lost many patients
CALL FOR VOLUNTEER
WORKERS BECOMES LOUD
With the persistency Of the epidemic
IN Richmond, the call for volunteer
workers becomes louder and louder.
There Is much unframed women can
and far between. They are needed
for the diet Kitchens and other such
places. The need Il reported as Very Very
responded to the call Among these are
SirsI Westmoreland Davis, Wife OF the
Governor, who is in tho pneumonia
stuart Mielau1 aps, q ROBERT baatS1s Fi,zser. Mrs.
aid. Mrs. Robert Hudson, Mrs. Georce
a. Gies9n. Mrs. William Fl. Campbell,
ory. Mrs. George Wayne Anderson. Mrs.
George Talcott, Mrs. Archer W. Rich
ardson.
u,rh The Patient Patients at the John Marshall
number about $50. Others are Coming
In hourly. according 10 Miss Agnes D.
Randolph. assistant director.
CITY BOARD OF HEALTH
10 CARE FOR E3IERGENC CIEs
DR.. Roy X. Flanagan, City Health
U,nceT, pm Gi, announces n that the offices OF
emergency cases One elevator @ VIII VIII
be kept running. Nurses and helnars
%irl yancv be ..ons on hand 70 attend the emer-
mems Auxiliary to the Red Cross so-
ciety be on duty all day to-day. The
society," is sendins an appeal to its
members mem, y, TO to be on hand for volunteer
day this organization turned out 500
pi%En, pads ,i.o from @ old linens contributed by
onsl} Mnsphss h9tsl sn,lor Other h9tels are re-
not send linen donations. the orsaniza-
ton VIII send for them. This society
also sent out 800 rolls from the bread
deDarl'nent yesterday.
Inc churches and welfare oreaniza-
tions over the entire. city continue a
thriving snrs ls bus business Hundreds OF per
broths and bread. Every denominat ton
is busy doing its best to feed those
who on account Of illness, are unable
The women of the Second Presby-
lerian Church are delivering the soup
pIephred nisIns ID by them in glass bottles.
return. For this reason they are ask.
ing the members of the congregation
and other friends to send to the church
all pint and quart bottles they can
not convenient. they will be called for
If notice is given Mrs. II. l.. Cabell
phone Madison AS.
SOUP KITCHENS TURNISH
NOURISHSIENT OF SUFFERERS
Mrs. J. Taylor Ellyson, associated
with other ladies OF the church will
open soup kitchen at the Second Bap-
tist Church early next week. The
voluntary gifts OF money. which' may
be sent or brought TO Mrs. Ellyson, 10
East Franklin Street. The souD will
be at the disposal of the I. V. n. a;
Pauis Episcopal Church. This soup
kitchen is in charge of Miss Adele
Williams. rhe women OF the Church
of the Holy Comforter make broths on
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
Contributions are accepted. Contribu-
tions OF meats may be sent to the
Kitchens are open in st. Patrick's
Church, ST. James Episcopal Church
the First Presbyterian Church and
many oihets One was opened Friday
Grove Avenue and Meadow Street. -un-
der the management OF the choir. Mrs
II. II. Shepherd is chairman and Mrs.
George Beverly Williams. secretary
I'VE are contendins with an acute
crisis. in the milk situation" City
Health Chief Flanagan announced this
heroic measures for the relief ofkthe
suffering public. Hence. it was decided
at conference held to-day that the
from the city jail. There are many
husky. healthy prisoners who can do
the labor the dairies require. IL opera.
ton Of the dairies by the labor Of jail
be necessary to take. over the dairies
and run them as public institutions"
II the prisoner scheme fails. the
placed p in charge Of i. ]. straueh, chief
dairy Inspector.
The doctors still are falling prey to
the influenza. TO the names Of Drs.
to be added that of S. w. selden. OF
the Virgin la Medical Chemical Hospi-
tai. He is confined in bed at his home,
S107 Grove Avenue.
Rumors Of bad management at the
emergency hospital at the John Mar
shall High School precipitated an In
yestiEation yesterday by Drs. n. w.
Garnett and Beverly r. Tucker. These