Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-17
FLU WAR BEING WON
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eport the epidemic well in hand, said
MIR Wells Requests for outside ply
| sicians have virtually ceased, new cases
are dropping off materially and fatalities
have fallen almost 30 normal. Local
doctors now seem to be able TO handle
the situation, though the state IS ready
10 rush aid promptly wherever needed
I'VE have had only one request Tor
an undertaken IN the past twenty-iotr
hours This came from near Centre
| vile To Deputy Attorney-General Green
who was able TO send the aid at once.
There will be no lessering in precautions,
however, until the danger Is well over.
Better sanitary conditions are sure
TO result from the epidemic. Citizens
who have seen the i'll effects Of bad saul-
tation and hygiene will be more ready
to heed Health Bureau advice on eleanll-
ness IN future
The State Hospital had today a6 in
fiuenza patients, but report no deaths
| The 1G cases still remaining IN he County
! Hospital are all convaescing
SAD cAsE ON FOURTH STREET.
\ ptifui Incident Of the epidemic vlsl-
tation became known today when repre-
sentative Of the States attorney Office
visited household in East Fourth street,
where the body Of a child of IL months
| had LAIN awaiting burial since Sunday
The mother was sick in bed and the
father was of no. assistance, having been
| drinking The mother was removed to
| hospital and the child gwen burial ~
Bombardv cemetery, through the care OF
| Ferris Giles, who has been assisting IN the
emergency work Of Attornev-General
! Rcinhafdt 8 office
now TO CIT PHYSICIAN.
Calls on the Board Of Health for omer-
| gencv' doctors. 10 receive attention. must
| hereafter come from the family physician
| Of those requiring attention These
| should first trv 10 gct the services Of
| their family doctor or some regular prac
| tioner and If he Is unable - take the
/ ease. get him 10 call up The Board Of
| Health. who will arrange to send an
emergency physician
CLOSING WV CENTURY cIUB
No more ncw patients will be ad-
| mitted 10 the New Century Club As
| fast as those now in the Century Club
Hospital shall be discharged they will
| be either sent homo or TO tho convalescent
| wards IN the emergency wing of the
Homeopathic Hospital II IS hoped
| TINT week will clear up thc cases now
| IN tho New Century Club and hc build
ing ran 10 returned 10 It's original con
| tlition
The emergency wing of the Homco-
| pathlc Hospital IS also receiving con
valescents from The Wilmington Coun-
try Club and nog has about thirty
eight cases. four of~Fhnn were admitted
Yesterday Il frequently happens bat
/
| tho c,tv, or for some other reason would
/ not Tct enough care If nc went back to
| his own dwelling place before getting
| his full strength back Such patients
| will be gwen strength-hmlding food and
MI comforts IN the emergency wing
NURSES RECOVERING
| Mrs MADELINE Burton Lee Is dead
| AT her home in Vest Fourteenth street
near Iatnal from influenza, after
| brief illness Mrs Lees husband was
with the tnited states army IN France
| in the air service. and several weeks
ago she was notified by thr War Depart
! ment that he had been sfvcrlv wound
ed Since that time Mrs lee had tried
pcrsistcntly II gain further information
| regarding her husband fate but she
was unable 20 gam the slightest clue
nosToS DEATH RATE HIGHER.
The local health authorities DO not
| think the death rate here has been as
| high as in many places which have
| been visited b. The epldemIc Boston
has had 4 great deal higher rate n pro-
! portion 70 lis population
/ Or Franklin b Rover Rho : tie
acting State Health Commissioner ii
Pennsylvania has sent Mayor John
" Lawson congratuIatory acknowi-
| edgment of the MAYOR reply 70 hi,
flrSt telegram L wIi be remembered
that DR. Rover complained ma Ne
groes supposedly from Wilmington had
taken quantities OF hquor into oates
vile. which was bone drH BY Pennsyl-
vania state Board of Health orders
| NfaVor Lawson replied that the closing
| orders we're also n effect here, a> adopted
! By the city Board OF Health, and he did
not think the Negroes had got their
liquor n tins city
Or Rover second telegram reads.
Thank YOU FOR your telegram. De-
| lighted to know YOU have discontinued
! the sale oi liquor and il IS showing such
splendid results.
The heroic nurses Who have been
| stricken down while mnlStcrIng 10 others
| suffering from influenza, are now getting
| we'll anu the number pi SICh ilIIstS -
rapidly les enlng No more have been
added to the pathetic list OF nurses Who
have died gloriously as any soldier on the
battlefield In place OF thirty six. the
| Delaware Hospital has fifteen nurses on
| the influenza list. and none of these Is
IN a critical condition.
The Physicians and Surgeons Hos
| pltal has two nurses who are influenza
| patients One OF them has gone home.
convalescent and the other IS able 70
be up and about
Al the Homeopathic Hospital none
OF the nurses were sick There have
been no deaths from influenza among the
| Homeopathic Hospital nurses
The Holiday House Of the ouug
Womens Christian Association which
has been gwen as 4 eonyalescent home
for nurses. now has only three patients
left I'll Of them are progressing rapidly
toward health
FRIGHT SEEMS OVER
There IS a marvellous change n the
spirits Of people out on the streets,
! Last week everyone vas talking Of sick
relatives and there was a general spirit
of depression This week It IS more apt
to be the recovered influenza patients
themselves who arc out exchanging