The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-10
Red Cross May Use Reid as
Emergency Hospital.
More Than 90 Cases Need
Treatment at Once.
$50 HOUSES CARDED TODAY
Another Death Here-Cases
Number More Than 1870.
All Pool Halls of City Ordered
To Close Tonight.

The city health departm repre-
sented by Dr. H L. Clark and the To-
cal Red Cross chapter represented by
Horace Hall, agreed late this after
noon that the best location for an
emergency hospital was the Reid no.
tel, corner of Fourth and Kansas ave-
nue. An agreement with the owners
practically had been reached at late
hour today The hotel is fitted with
all conveniences and could be trans
formed into a hospital with little de-
lay.
Already there are twenty cases in
Topeka awaiting hospital treatment.
The Reid hotel is owned and man
aged by T. L. Reid. The building is
four stories in height and has seventy
two rooms available for hospital pur-
poses.
Houses Car1cd.
More than $50 houses were carded
for Spanish influenza by an extra
force of inspectors sent out today by
the city health department. Wednes-
day ninety-five cases were Investigate
ed and found to be influenza. More
than twenty-five reports were in at
the office of the public health depart
ment this morning. Fourteen OF these
were reported by doctors as real in
f1uenza. The other cases have not
yet been investigated.
were placarded with the @influenza
warning this morning there is more
than one case. In some instances the
whole family is afflicted. With the dis
ease spreading as rapidly as has been
experienced in the last forty-eight
hours an accurate record of the num-
ber of people stricken with the malady
is hard to obtain but it is estimated
that the number is well above 100.
Another Death Here.
Another death has occurred, making
a total of three deaths directly as
cribed to Spanish influenza in Topeka.
Miss Elva Kennedy, an employe of the
Capper publications, died Wednesday
at O'Clock in the evening at the
home of her sister. who lives at 1916
North Harrison street A vivid exam
pie of the deadly swiftness with which
influenza Is capable of striking Il
found in the fact that Miss Kennedy
was taken sick on Tuesday and died
the evening of the following day. AS
is usual in most cases, influenza
turned into pneumonia and she died
from complications of the two dis
eases.
More cases were reported this
morning than on any previous day.
The totals published Wednesday were
higher but were due to the fact that
many of these were the accumula ted
reports of days. One doctor turned in
a list of about twenty but they were
not all cases that had arisen in one
day.
An instance of criminal and willfu1
stubbornness arose this morning when
woman called up the office of the
city health department to ask for a
nurse. When she was informed that
she would have to give her name and
address she declined on the ground
that she did not care to be published"
1t is conduct of this sort which not
only may result in the death Of all her
j family-for the woman says all her
children are stricken a1so-but aids
to spread the disease in her neigh
borhood. Who the woman is the au-
| thorities are still uniformed.
Pool Halls Must Close.
Tonight at o'clock all pool halls
in the city will come under the clos
ing ban, according to an order drawn
, up at noon today by DR.. H. L. Clark
! city health officer. placing the same
restrictions on pool halls that have
been placed upon churches. schools
| theaters and general large meetings
| of people either in or out of doors
Pool halls will be allowed to leave
| their doors open and may sell toba cco
and cigars and operate soda fountains
! in their place of business provided
they do not permit customers accus-
! toned to loafing in their establish
| ments to remain there in large groups
Customers may come in to make pur-
/ chases, but except in the case OF
/ drinks they may not remain to con-
sumo. 1t has been reported says
! Doctor Clark, that many pool halls
! often have as many as seventy-fiv
people in their establishments al
! once.
&, This morning following a ride down
| town on a street car containing more
i than seventy people, and on which
] every window in the car was closed
! w L. Porter, in charge of the city
health department. conferred with
+ Albert Patten of the Topeka Stree