Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-18
BRAVE NEW CASTLE
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35 to 80 cases n day, indeed the first report
Secretary Smith made to the State Board
showed 36S cases, and the disease had
hardly arrived in town and unpacked ITS
suitcasel Then DR. Jones fell i'll, which
virtually left the whole of the job to his
fellow physicians, Drs. Dodd and Booker.
UP AND DOING.
Something had To be done to curb the
spread of the plague and to attend to the
sick and dying because they began to die,
just as they did elsewhere
Did the women SIT down, have good,
moist enjoyable cry over the situation
and let il go nj that, or the men decide
the business was a dangerous one and that
George might attend To it? Certainly not,
because they were the solid steady, sub
stantiaI backbone of the community and
were proud of 1t They got busy.
Some time previously the Bethlehem
| Loading Company, whose plant is just
south of the city, had taken over what was
| known rs the shcritf's house, hg.
old fashioned building close Ia the CITY
| hall and old courthouse, as place To
| house workers 1t was an admirable place
for an emergency hospital and that =
what II became at once. under the direct
ION of the BcthIchc n concern and the local
| branch Of the Red Cross
And their patients have hccn co2alng
and gong Miss Lakewood a ~ -
scrt down from Wilmington by the
state C,uucll of Defence at the Hnstl-
CATION 81 The New Castle committc
Of that odv, Is IN charge IN the dnN
time Miss Thompson, from Tho loading
plant. takes II over at night Both are
framed nurses Of exceptional efficiency
md both have thrown themselves into
~ ...I-..t,I
rut that only part Miss Lock
wood formerly had class IN nu rsing
here which included most ot the matrons
and Younger women Of the cItys best
people Rcd Cross folks, Century Club
hcry. patrotir, wholc-souled creatures
who wore skirts Tut had the courage
and grit If their husbands. sons. brothers,
and sNcythcarts IN p0ntalnopf And
when thr Rcd Gro 5 and tho New Castlc
cud of the State Council q Defence called
they threw themselves into the work OF
mercy with rcal New Castle spnt-
which SANS IL aii
SOM oT TIE woRKhRs.
Here. for instance are some Of those
vho have hccn working NJ the cmer-
,cury hospital Mrs 4 y Leslie George,
Miss Pauline Rodgers, Miss Elizabeth
BLACK Miss Nan l,u gan, Mrs J !.
Fla~on. Miss Mary DUNCAN, Miss hut
thns Mis-. Florence Townsend, Mrs
sadie \lckcrson. Mrs John Iamhson,
Mrs loscnh Garlln, Mrs hate launhson,
Mrs l. f. Eliason and Miss Elizabeth
seward
>nd these women have been giving
themselves uustjntcdly Only Noster-
.lay MIS- Townsend walked chcerllv INTO
thc cmcre .nrV hospital and set 20 work.
put III lcw hours she became patient,
ANA aIl patients look alike to influenza
which cares not whether its victims aro
.,t work on missions 81 mercy or are Just
pIan ordinary beings
Nor have the men been behind hand.
1 such &c the sohd steady and substantial
4 4, + Doll 1anyler. John 4 I.amhSon
4 Richard Rodney, James White, lr
4 James Fla~on. lr. and Douglas Buck
! have gone on duty n the hospital n
night and and done thcr stint q worA
/ III the great common cause.
81. rFTrR's RIG HELr.
Not far away from the emergency
I hospital ia .'thc shcrif's house Is another
III - Peters parochial school Rev
Frederick y Campbell IS the pastor Q
81 Peters and a strong, welI-bcioVc'
man Also An energetic one. As n result
there Is i splendid haven for the sick II
tho school Ten sisters from st Francis
I. Convent. long ono of the institutions
81 the place, are doing the nursing, undo
ih,. supervision Of Sister Avllla, sen
down from st Mary's Hospital in PhlIa
drlphia Yesterday there we're y patient
II, the beds there There have only heel
four deaths out Of ALI tho company 0
sick the sisters havc attended
And still there is more 10 say. Ihrougf
the Council OF Defence and the Rec
Cross aid was gotten from the Fedora
Government to help Drs Booker, Dod'
and Jones DR. RaderTnan and Dr
NNcr, the former a woman, were sen
ui and have done splendid and efhclen
ditv Not only have all Of the medica
folks had 10 fight the disease in New
Castle itself, but they had to go int'
oUtlying Dobbinsvillc and ShaWtown
where there Is now considerable disease
onr house 10 which DR. Dodd was callet
some days ago started out with 4 slngl
ease But every person in II, thlrteeI
alI told have contracted the disease
and the dwelling has been hosplta
All by itself.
DR. Dodd, as head Of the Board 0
Health. thinks the plague-hghters hav
grpped the thing by the throat an
are s;rangling it, although new cases at
-tiIl being reported and the disheartenin
death stage has arrived where the nor
tality is high.
FORWARD THE LfBERTY LOAN.
And all the time this has been goln
ON, although their plans Of canvas
have come virtually TO naught and the,
have been han percd by illness IN thel
own ranks and BY going out to hcl
combat the epidemic, the Liberty Loa
workers have kept on the job. Paste
Wvhe, Of the Presbyterian Churcf
who stepped into the breach when Nj
Bryson died. says New Castle is goln
over the top Of It's quota
We've only about 100000 to raise,
he declared last night, and YOU don
suppose were going 70 let that stop IN
Not by long sight That isn't Ne
Castle countys way
There YOU have it in that last sentence
Whether it's influenza or Red Cro'
drive or a Liberty Loan canpaIga Ne
Castle doesn't stop until the Jobs don
and rightly done.