Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-08
FLU BES|EGES CITY:
10000 CASES HERE
Council Appropriates $4,000 to
Cope With Situation Alarm
ing Officials.
HIGH SCHOOL MADE HOSPITAL
Flanagan and Williams Expect
Between $4,000 and $4,000
Cases This Year.
HIGH SCHOOL MADE HOSPITAL


spanish influenza in this cl,y--only 3.
coo Of which the doctors have had ,;me
TO report-and dread in the minds
oflthc health officials for the city and
state that the next six weeks Will see
from 1000 to 1900 deaths here. tho
city Council last night appropriated
$4,000 towards fitting John Marshall
High School into an emergency hos.
pital.
Three days time. however. arc re.
quired by the constitution for the
consum nation of the Council act Bu;
the work. will be speeded without -e,
The Red Cross Society has promised
the Health Department $4,000. and :,
son c.SSmmittee; with John Kerr Branch AS
70 raise .s25.coo. This viii make a
iosal OF $4,000 with which tho Health
epaartment hopes TO retard tho spread
g a1,no9gh II is scarcely hoped that It's
spread can be more than Slightly pre-
han sn'6a; 6eo, eyen n, though the state i'air
State Health Department the board Of
iair directors readily agreed. The
and MmInlmg ,nn,,h 10 @ PEOPLE TO shield the nose
ine ;s I.; when coughing and sneez-
Importance. nc
rRICE MEDICAL DIRECTOR
AT EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
,,ad,cl; Iii, l;aWrence ,,; r. Price was appointed
Marshall High School. He assumed his
duties Yesterday afternoon and was
eiven ei,y sia,n nniimted rd authority under the
at the Virginia Medical College for
member nnb.een n, years yea vas three years a
tired from the Richmond Grays three
years ago with the rank of major af,er
nine years Of service.
re appointed AS assistant chief med
ical director in tho emergency hosnital
work Miss Agnes Randolph. executive
secretary of tho antitubcrculosts So.
n,e,y men ~ y nnn,ber Of committee chair
Dr. Price 10 'fnn,Gd;a,eiy fsmiiItais appon'ed by
s'al!inE the hospital They follow:
t1.rar:, Nnrrains. Miss Minor: transportation.
siarn.d van LLOYD: communications. r.
ment and hauling. HenrS rsnt; tobn. benplo%. nor
chasing; Richard Ciwathmer: hosnits1s ia1r,
fn,,n, Or =. A. Wits and Fred MorioE..SGe.. MiEss..
Peak: A si.isasv iIa5s1s Ghnodo1i food Miss saria
1nltE Administrative BoarG. C,itv Schnni
hanntom hoard and NJ i?r Crosby. OF the West.
Iolnmittee. Dr. Fu,lmer Bright and Or
CRISIS WORST TO VISIT
CITY SINCE WAR BEGAN
ne,I,r orS, Ennion G. Williams. state
ssa cisS Somn;dtl0"sai Haalth ficsl Roy X Fanns
Wills. OF the Johnston-W-illis Sana.
IL iortum, 81 IN; apDeared before the Council
beforo t mifht en- and asserted that the crisis
mas mas visited Il since the war. Dr' Vii.
liams stated that yesterday mornine
.ne nIst two kilograms he received
thusly: One asked for 500 mortuary
Transportation permits and the other
10, .or Zoe He stated that the under
experiencing difficulty in securing
collins 1t was stated in general
conversation on the floor by seme or.
cnf5ni nrfnent !, that ma there there are not enough
In the States that have been swept
ID! tGe disease since II raised its head
III III Massaehusetts the last of August.
,ion have been victims Of the maiady.
.,mi1, ~ni,e "a rom pm, 70 per cent OF those
70 I per cent of the population is
falling in the path of the maIady. The
doctors stated that the reports from
Other States Indicated that this city
siH or eisht weeks from 500 10 800
or more of its population from sixteen
TO rorty years Of age II it's ravaGes
demic Of 1889. resulting from a far less
virulent strain, attacked the young and
old. rather than the middle "a sed
HOPES TO PREVENT SPREAD
THROUGH DRASTIC ACTION
the disease that all places of gather
ing have b=en closed-even soda foun.
tains--and the people are being warned
to cough and sneeze in no mans face
and TO shield the mouth with a hand
kerchief. II is as bad to cough in the
hand and then open a door or shake
hands. II was explained that ,his docs
rectly. This habit has struck the
towns OF Pulaski. where there are -
600 cases: West Point; where half the
,t,,fs IL
where per cent of the student body
have died. square in the face.
-, Not hopinE TO do more than delay
sicians. whose hard work is making
them pcculiary susceptible. can at.
tend more patients. the emergency
John Marshall High school. il j. eS-
and NAVY Club. tho Soldiers sailors
e. and Marines Club prGha9,ly the II NJ NJ
appropriated hy tho Council and Fed
Cross and collected publicly will he
mont and audited as in other officia
matters. II is hoped that the hospital
Will care for 1000 patients: Dr. Fian-
City Home. The local hospitals are
hlled They n've been requested TO
refuse all surgical cases except the
emergency cnes.
TO FACILITATE HANDLING CASES
The city will be districtcd at once
for the sake of covering the cases Or.
Williams has wired Surge on Genera
Blue Tor permission TO use the students
ut the Medical College Of Virginia as
or,assistants. TO try TO care for
the calls. or the fvc members of the
City Health Department. four Of them
are in bed. and tho other one, like
every doctor in town. is working day
and night. Whole families arc af-
nictcd and arc unable to get a doctor
for love or money. In fact. many
towns arc wiring for medical help.
Or. Williams stated that one third ot
the cases developing pneumonia died.
and that suCn cqses were those that
wouldn't go to bed with tho first
symptom AZ Camp Eustis the doc
tors inspect tho men daily for aymp-
toms of"-uid and compel every such
case 10 30 TO bed atNonce.
SIX hundred cases were reported In
this city yesterday. or sIxty-n!ne
have died. II was said that in addi-
tion to the 10000 cases in town there
were probably thousands OF others
walking the streets with a fever and
scatter.nE. tile germs, Or. Wills pre-.
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