Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-16
GRIPPE SITUATION
THOUGHT BETTER
Although $50 Cases Reported
Here Yesterday. Health Off
cials Are Encouraged.
PROBABLY 10000 IN STATE
Boy Scouts Survey Discloses
Other Unreported Gases.
Twenty-Eight Deaths.
PROBABLY 100000 IN STATE

Spanish influenza here Yesterday In
city and State the Fnalsdy continues II,
wanton way. SO far there have been
2l3 victims OF the invading foe in
Richmond. Additional cases repor,ed
yesterday voluntarily by the physicians
OF the city numbered $50. Eut that
fact alone caused Drs Flanagan and
Chichester. Of the City Health Depart
meHt. to remark that the situation was
Improving. The doctors now have time
10 report their c2ses-a condition thar
mas not existed before In fact. IL js
thought by many that the disease is
on the decline and that there are bit
haf the number OF cases ia town as
"crc weeh or SO ago,
However, the cases voluntarily re.
ported Yesterday brought :he total uD
10 1875. II is estimated that tho .ur
Tey continued by :he Scouts. Camp Fire
added about f,5o0 q her cases TO the
records OF the city Office. maE;nr the
oDs,,G; o1ts Q; seported patients. s.sc6, IL
ne-haI lhe real number OF cases has
eeen reported. then there have been
ABOUT $4,000 persons In Richmond fallen
~ IN the pathway OF this inscruta
NOW IN VIRGINIA
While there is no accurate way of
estimating exactly the number ot in
huenza cases in Virginia those asso-
G,aten ,. Win the state Board OF Health
~ llS prooiGlons work OF fghtin. the
SisEase arc OF the opinion that at Least
s?v'ooo peop.e now are victims OF the
sst, sxn persaslye nersl maiady \ total OF 6l.-
DAY afternoon The ''iu" has spared no
section. whether rural O. urban. and
mas mas, sen, hundreds to their graves.
dicated that the disease appsreniI,.
mas not making more rapid hea6wsv
man , on 'he preceding sunday and Mon
uaS. IN some counties, too the author
.ties' o! rapid organization. have been
aoie TO get the upper hand or the si,ua
,i9n' and now have in,provi<ed hospi-
cnwi,',, cr,I mh!en IN "a measure are meeting the
EVER possible medium has nee,
ntiii%ed ky the state Board of Health
ana tiaprertntion of inhuenza's spread.
sa,iSe nnto,l Tho thousands OF posters and bull
and 70 "t s.s tht heen sent to postmasters
ioca! councils OF defense also have
proved valuable agencies for the dis
er,Guiion enG ,he 20, OF literature These councils
being asked 70 call to their assistanc.
committees OF citizens who will aid in
passing down the line" the warning
ana 'he suggestions which can do so
much to halt the pestilential visitor
~ other words. communities all over
me STATE are being urged to have re-
printed ard widely circulated the bull
ietirS, Leaflets. placards and other puo-
lications which have been sent them
In necessarily limited quantities from
NEe the present. can do a world of
sood II the advice il conveys is even
half followed.
STATE HOARD OF HEALTH
HELP STRICKEN DISTRICTS
II should not be inferred however,
mat the State Board of Health is con-
tentins itself witt, mere printed words
It's members and their assistants have
physicians and nurses for those i'll
fated sections which have found them
selves unable 10 give adequate care TO
in this direction. though thrice the
number OF doctors and nurses now in
the field would not suffice to meet
that the instructions for the nome
care. Of the sick will go far towards
helping the PUBLIC out Of It's difficult
ties. And the sick themselves can
greatly. facilitate matters by going
promptly 10 bed as soon as they sense
the least sign of illness.
An order just issued by the State
board forbids the holding OF any public
auctions in Virginia. for these arairs
IN counties and cities alike. attract
large satherinss. and Groves. above all
Speaking OF the milk situation. DR.
/ Flanagan requested the public TO be
as patient with the dairies AS possible.
He stated that the force OF many of
the dairies was shoTt-handed on ac-
count OF The grippe. and that the
Health Department wished the sick and
distribution Of milk. T. j. Strauch.
chief inspector said that the dairy
farms Were also about Knocked out. so
FAR AS help was concerned.
RED CROSS AUXILIARY
DISTRIBUTES FOOD TO SIGN
The Catholic Moments Auxiliary to
tho Fed Gross Society yesterday distri-
tuted 1.s00 rolls TO the sick: donated
so finished pads 20 the emergency hos
rital, and completed The furnishing OF
The babies arc with gowns and other
essential garments. The women o. this
auxiiiary purchased Grty- nine yards OF
Contributions will be received to aid
il: the payment OF this cloth. Mrs
Clinton Boudar stated that helpers
erss mers SIN In demand nain for the sort o.
There died sunday At Virginia Hos
pital Miss Grace l.. Morris. 4 senior
nurse. twenty SIX years old. Mss Nor
iis feI III of influenza. which later de-
vsloped into pneumonia. her entire IL
tess covering Only eight days. The
young Woman. who WIS 10 have grad
ia cd next May. WAS i native OF StraS-
iurg. She WAS 5ar.sd yesse.ndy in the
family piot At Alexandria. she IS sur
vived BY JohE Norris. brother. OF
ale&andr.a.
open until ID o.ciocH ~ the IIo:nina Il
q recon nendation o. the Stale council
TO the City school Eoard IS approved.
The reason tor ;his rscommendation
is the fact tina. the cars are badly con-
Rested from soout $50 in the morning
until the time .ro, the oben!ng OF tn
achools. there being many thousands
%. children VINO arc on their way TO
school just at the time that thousands
OF, women and girls are on their way
10 work. 43.st
Thousands of men get to their work
about s:3o to a:3e. and by dividing the
peak" loads--the hours for tho heavy
traffc--tne cars will be abla to make
better time. and cars will not be SO
badly crowded; This latter IS one @.
danger from lnfuen2a, The sti eet car
company. favors the propositio II IS
said. and the matter Will be accom- :
Iip,!shed by agreement. 9 q.
Thomns I E:dison In Ill. ~ yS
,fs WEST ORANGE, N. ia October 15.---
Thomas A. Edison, The notsd Inventor.
by am ,llRess !, s'tsSnofsd py his physl-; 'Elg;