The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-10-09

1OiOgfSt OF the University OF rCnn. |
syIvania's laboratory OF hygiene
suggests the following treatment
for persons attacked by Spanish
Usc q tcaspoonful OF salt, dis
solved In water. night and morn
Il fng ~ n douche In the upper reg +
ptrntory passages and as . garxic. |
Get plenty fresh air.
| Keep windows open all the time,
rain or shine.
Keep bowels moving freely.
When symptoms first appear. /
take q hot foot bath, u hot lemon
adc, little quinine, 60 IN bed and
stay there for an entire day.
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cilities at that point were made Guate;
school at o'clock last evening and
Mcssrs Henry Cohn and Building In
spector Butler. with 125 OF the SOL
diers at the state fair grounds. mem
bers of the street cleaning force and
the City Hall tanitors. worked until
30 o'clock this morning moving the
school furniture and otherwise pre-
pairing the building for use. We were
met by an obstacle in that fact that
for two weeks past the soldiers at the
fair grounds have been fed in the high
school building under contract with
the city school board. 1t became neces-
sary TO make arrangements for them
elsewhere. The Grays' armory was Sc
cured and beginning with dinner to-
day the soldiers will be fed there
Cots were secured from the Army
and Navy club. Murphy's hotel, the
Y. NJ c. A. and other places. The ad-
ministrative board had purchased In
advance a large supply of linen for
sheeting and pillow cases to be used
at the Virginia hospital and the City
home and this was put at our disposal
by the ministrative board. We CRATE
fully acknowledge assistance given us
by Messrs Hirschberg and Hobson. OF
the administrative board: Chairman
w alker Cottrell of the school board:
Messrs J. l.. Hil and T. G. WaIford.
s. o. Lindeman. II. s. Bloomberg. Rob
ert Lecky, Jr, and r b. Airport.
THE nursing corps available was
comp posed OF ten graduate nurses for
part Of their time. We began with
four graduate nurses and have many.
volunteers. including former nurses
now married.
Medical Organization.
The medical side is completely or
ganized under the direction of DIR. N
Thomas Emmett, medical director of the
| city school system and DR. f.. &, Ia
Miller We have at our disposal only
| about four physicians for a part of
| their time and the rest OF the work is
| being done by a few senior and junior
studepts OF the Medical College of
| Virginia state Health Commissioners
| Williams has been forced to send med
| ca1 students to isolated places In the
| state, where there are no physicians,
! in order to cope with the epidemic, thus
| depicting the available medical forces
| in the city. In some instances third
1 .Ar
| OF graduate physicians. All physicians
! are urgently requested to report by
| telephone to DR.. Emmett or DR.. Miller.
! at Randolph 336. volunteering their
services. even If only for an hour or
| two "A day, so the schedule may be
| worked out.
The building Is admirably adapted
| 10 handle the situation because of the
| large area rooms. the kitchen in the
| basement where the doctors, nurses
| and administrative force are fed, and
I the dtetetic Kitchen on the third moor
where the patients food Ia prepared
under the direction Of Mrs. George
| Wayne Anderson.
| Or. Price was called on by DR.. will
| liam Russell Jones Of the United States
| Public Health and Marine hospital
| service, TO assist them in handling the
| situation at Seven Pines, where thirty
! cases were reported and where the
| hospital with that capacity was al
ready filled and only one doctor for
/ the entire plant. All of these cases
were received at the emergency hos
pita1.
TT Is urgently requested that all
persons not i'll and using the services
| OF nurse will release her at once,
SO that she may report here for duty.
| II the situation is not relieved from a
| nursing standpoint, it will be neces-
sary to commander the services OF
| nurses doing less important work.
Ready for Seven Hundred.
t. '@rhe building 'is equipped for TOO
patients We, have a large number OF
children and several severe cases OF
pneumonia. hut as yet no fatalities.
1.-THE Soldiers. Sailors and Marines
club. sos East Grace street. has beer
rendered completely equipped. BY
Colonel Henry Lee Valentine, OF the
brotherhood OF st Andrews. and will
be occupied by noon tomorrow. The
Baker street school. at Baker and st
John streets, Is being prepared to take
care of the colored patients. The open
ing OF these two new places will seri'
ousiy embarrass the medical side OF
the situation. The public is asked t
observe the rules set forth in the bull
letins being distributed by the Rotary
club and il in believed that, with pub
lie cooperation. the situation will b
in hand in the course of few days
"Boy Scouts will be detailed FOL
work tomorrow and will report at
O'Clock, under the direction of Scout
master Weaver.
"The finance committee has beer
formed, with Jacquelin P. Taylor Al
chairman. CO. operating with Rotarians
to raise additional money. since thu
approprte ton OF $4,000 by the cttJ
and $4,000 by the Red Cross will b.
inadequate
Three hundred and sixty-flve
new cases OF influenza reported
to the city health department
Yesterday carried the total num-
\ her close to the $500 mark. This
number includes only those cases
that have been officially reported
TO the department. Health Chief
ROY X. Flanagan said late
Yesterday afternoon that the
total number OF cases in
the city. both reported and
unrt'ported. would largely e1-
exceed the official report Up
to N late hour yesterday more
than sixty deaths from pneu-
monia and influenza had been re.
ported DR.. Flanagan stated that
sometimes from one to two days