Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-02
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ity up to thirteen. other deaths from
the disease are expected. Albert Row
ley, two years old, is dead. Three MEM
bers of the Rowley family were brought
to Norristown Yesterday from West Con-
shohocken. The other death was that
of Mrs. Charles II. Bricker, ~ Chain
street, mother of five children.
Spanish influenza continues TO increase
at Lancaster at an alarming rate. Lieu
tenant Thomas Reed Ferguson, of Kirk
wood. Is dead He was stricken two
weeks ago while on n visit from Camp
Devens, Mass. He was attached to the
medical reserve corps and was one of
the county's leading physic ans.
No abatement is reported in the cpi-
dcmic at Columbia or QuarryNille.
With the epidemic spreading in va
rious sections of the state, the MasSa-
chusetts health authorities renewed cf-
forts to obtain physicians and nurses to
meet the heavy demands for help from
many cities and towns. Conditions in
cities and towns along the Mrrrimac
River Valley were reported to he serious.
The situation in Boston was considered
improved, though the death rate con-
tinued high
Three thousand teachers and school
children were dismissed from attendance
in Washington today for observation
of preliminary symptoms of Spanish in
fluenZa. The malady is continuing to
spread throughout the capital
Hospitals of Philadelphia. already
overcrowded, were directed today by
Or Wilmer Krusen. Director Of Health
and Charities, TO provide additional beds
to take care of the most serious S,tua-
tion SO far developed in the Spanish in
rucnZa epidemic.
I'VE need them" said Dr. Eruaen.
"and the hospitals must provide them" ="
Only one hospital in the city, st
Joscphs. has beds available now, and
there are only twelve there. Hundreds
of serious cases have had to be turned
away from other institutions.
At the Pennsylvania Hospital. where
there are scvcnty-fivc cases. twenty
eight nurses are i'll and the Episcopal
Hospital has thrty-eight nurses sick
At the Jewish Hospital there are nine
teen cases and seven nurses i'll; Poly
clinic Hospital twcnty-fOur cases. twen-
ty-four nurses i'll; St. Agncs's has nine
ty-seven cases and seventeen nurses are
ill., There are eighteen cases at Jeffer-
son. twenty-four at Hahncmann, twenty
at Presbyterian and thirty at St. Jo-
seph's.
work at Hog Island Retarded
The disease has spread to shpworkcrs
at Hog Island, and with 2400 out Of the
"a 600 workers in, threatens to seriously
re:ard the shipping program. con-
ference will he held today by officials
of the Emergency Fleet Corporation to
take steps to check the epidemic.
The disease has spread to fashionable
circles.
Several hundred new cases have been
reported in Camden, and with the schools
closed, the situation remains serious.
The Lansdowne Board of Health has
closed all parochial, public and private
schools and has forbidden public gath
erings until next week to check the
spread of the disease. which has at
tackled twenty-three per cent of The
| school children.
To help combat the disease the board
of trustees Of the Philadelphia College
/ of Pharmacy has suspended its after
noon classes in order that the students
may help the druggists during the crisis.