Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-10-05
TO CHECK DISEASE

DR.. WOOD ORDERS Car WINDOWS TO ne
Kept Open-Temporary Hospital
Opens in Christ Church Parish Hall
for Treatment of Patients
Church Halls May be Used.
Energetic steps to prevent further
spread of Spanish influenza were
taken today by DR.. w. L. Wood, spe-
cial state health officer and also of the
United States Public Health Service,
when he issued an order that
from now on all windows on the cars
Of the Washiigton-Virginia aRilway
Company, must be kept open. Persons
who refuse to let the windows remain.
open will be subject to arrest and the
imposition of a fine.
DR.. Wood conferred with officials
Of the railway company and they
agreed to post notices in the cars to
this effect.
A temporary hospital has been
opened for the reception of persons
i'll with the malady in the parish
hall of Christ Episcopal Church.
Thirty cots have been installed. =
This will primarily be for persons
who are unable to get treatment at
home, and particularly for employees
of the Virginia Shipbuilding Corpo-
ration.
Dr.. Wood says Red Cross nurses
will look after the patients who are
takento this place and also others who
will volunteer to nurse.
1t is the purpose of Dr.. Wood to ar
range for other church halls and con-
vert them into temporary hospitals in
order that the many strangers in the
city who have only ooms and who are
down with the disease will be able to
secure treatment. The Alexandria
hospital IS crowded.
At the present time it is stated that
there are number of new citizens in
rooming houses i'll with the disease
who have been unable to secure the
treatment they should have.
With such steps taken as precau-
tionary measure against a, further
spread Of the disease i. is believed
that the malady may soon he stamped
out.
Physicians And Nurses Busy.
The physicians of the city just now
arc taxed TO their utmost and some
are working day and night and even
then not able to respond 20 all Of the
Gals. livery nurse in the ':ty Isl tlsx
and more nurses, are ;lieetled. ! Or.
Wood announced in Yesterdays Ga
zette that all persons who can do so
should volunteer their services in this
work.
+. .IHquiic .iD'ul v hiShy.
Whisky has been. recommended t5
be used in small quantities in hot
water in the treatment of the disease
By some Of the physicians ~
Many. persons wereyot he opinion
chat swing to the existence 'of The epi-
denlic they could secure s,g:he If the
ro"hscatcd, whisky now storcflrat po-
lie headquarters.
Tie result was consto stream
Of persona! inquiries and also many
se!c5none messages about Z during
the day.
The police, however. explained usch
WIS not the case. The whists that
ii,ay be needed can le 90 .ainc.! from
-!r,.$eists VINO have tn; required Ii
cenSc and only on physitian's preserip-
Ton. as always has peer tho case, it
is stated. M t
With the closing Of The churhes,,
schools, moving picture ESTABLISHMENTS
nsE-Ef- = p
I'D pool rooms and othar places
y ere persons gather in large nuns
iers it is believed that thc disense
soon will be stamped out in this city.
No Church Services:
For the first time siace he civil
:" there vii! be no pa2i;: religious
services here tomorrow. Every
church Yill 81; closed il compliance
with the order and in thar efforts to
cooperate in stamping out the plague.
I-quiry was made Of Dr. Wood this
corning if it would be permission to
sold services in chur..1 yard. DR..
Wood, howayer, suggested That no
such services be held as it right have
a tendency ot cause turtner spread
1. the disease. Therefore. there will
tc no open air service at any af tha
= urches tomorrow. 4
Uumphreys Ouarantined.