Evening journal., 1918-10-02

terthwaite, chairman OF the instruc-
tion board, to be held at the High
School tonight, for Instructions as to
questlonnalres, has been called off be-
cause Of the outbreak OF the Flu.
Notice win be given through the
newspapers as TO when the postponed
meeting VIII be held.
A young Polish employe OF the p, B.
and w. railroad died last night at the
influenza emergency hospital at the
New Castle County Hospital. He was
only % years Of age. and was stran-
ger In Wilmington, coming TO this city
on September 30.
There are now "a influenza patients
taken care Of at the County Hospital.
and all are doing well. There are two
nurses In charge.
The two floors Of the New Homeo-
pathic Hospital building, which have
been placed at the disposal OF the Red
Cross 20 be used for influenza patients,
are being held In reserve. They will
not be used until the Wilmington
Country Club Is filled with patients.
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/ now been turned over TO the city for
Emergency hospital use. Mrs. Jos. Ban
croft, chairman Of the Bureau OF Nurs-
ing and Hygiene, Of the Red Cross, has
issued an urgent appeal for volunteer
nurses. u was thought better because
OF the shortage OF nurses TO keep the
patients centralized in one hospital as
far as possible.
A few cases OF influenza have devel-
oped among the Workhouse inmates,
but they are not serious and may be
only Ia grippe. There Is no pneumonia
at the Institution. The physicians there
/ are taking every precaution against an
outbreak OF the epidemic.
Yesterday a local physician said that
simple precaution against influenza
Is to spray the throat and nostrils
twice day with diluted llsterine or pc
roxlde, or even common table salt. He
further said that the prevailing cpl
demic ls simply a recurrence Of the
grippe" Of a few years ago, but now
bearing another name.
One physician yesterday said that he
had 1870 new patients IN twenty-fOur
hours. In one house on Jefferson street
above Twentieth there are six people
sick.
The drug stores Of the city were
crowded with customers last night, buy
ing all varieties of medicine as prevent
ives and cures for Spanish influenza,
grippe and colds.
The Wilmington and Philadelphia
TlactiOn Company has taken the pre-
caution OF keeping street car windows
and ventllators open to guard against
the Infection. People who cough and
sneeze and have watery eyes are re-
garded with apprehension by their
neighbors.
Forty-aye of the nurses and oflcers
of the Delaware Hospital were innocu-
lated last night with vaccine to protect
them against the epidemic OF Spanish
influenza which has already brought
down nineteen Of the nurses. Two OF
the nurses are said TO be an a serious
condition 10 is hoped by the hospital
authorities that the use of the vaccine
will prevent further spread Of the
disease among those who duty IL is TO !
care for other sufferers from the dis
ease.
The vaccine was administered by DR.. |
Emil Mayerburg, who himself has I
peen innoculated with the vaccine Sew
eral OF the medical staff of the Della
49, hpspital say that they have been
e s,,noe sle vaccine with considerable
suffer,7, :, upen a number OF their patients
last s,s, rom rom influenza within tho
s,,c.os.,'', uays, The most evidently
' ieSoi's' they say, have been