Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-14

Grove morguc today contained the
corpses Of % "du' victims
CONFER OVER FURfALs.
conference was held yesterday after
noon ut the Board Of Health rooms by
officials from the Board of Health. Mayor
! John w lawson and from Attorney
General David J. Rcinhardt- office Re
ported cases of bodies left in houses for
| four or FIVE days, Of delays in burial, and
| daily calls 90 both Board oi Health snd
| Police Departments that undertakerg re-
| fused to give service, lcd to the con-
| ference. There were no representatives. Of
! the city undertakers present There is no
! doubt that the undertakers have been
/ working night and day, and also that they
! have been hampcred by a shortage of
caskets. AZ the same time, the authorities
| do not consider that such state of affair
| should be allowed to continue. In order
| 10 mike o correct survey 0f the situation.
| n notice has been issued 10 the public from
| the office Of the encouragement, through
+, tho prcsa.
This notice asks all persons knowing of
any death where the services ~ an under
taker we're asked and no service has been
| obtained to report such facts Immediately
fo the Office of the attorney-genersl on
the second floor If the Public Building,
either BY telephone or in person. Phone
5000 and ask for the attorncY-gcncrap
office
The Delaware Association Of Funeral
Directors gent word 70 the Board ri Health
on Friday afternoon that they thought
they could now handle the situation But
since then ncw cases 0f dead left without
removal for two Or more days have soon
reported
SAY DRUGGISTS DIsCRfNTTATF
The attorney generals Office IS IN
tcrestcd N another matter. Certain ply
sicians who are also prOprietors Of drug
stores. It is alleged, have been IN the
habit of refusing to ill any prescriptions
AZ their store unlcag they were prescrip-
tions made ont by themselves II has
been sald that even in this timc of epi-
dernic these drug stores have refused to
give medicine unlesy thc prescription was
made ont by the proprietorph physician
This j. not Illegal, but tho aftorucr-
general Office thinks that such refusal
~ this timc 81 general distress is repre-
hcnsible ia tbr extreme and would like
to learn n uny such cases
plTTuL ckeE
sad oasc vas found bv ono of the
government doctors ~ Thirteenth and
French -frcote Yesterday In one house
hc found fhroc small children III in bed
Hlth lnf'ucnza tWO ~ he top and one
At thc foot ~ hn ted On the sewing
machine ea- resting M hodv of haby
dead from ne Iieea=r
Mrs Belle Chair was found lying on ne
- cps of thc Old Citv Hall ~ 3 30 o'clock
On Friday night -eriously II With IN
fuenza -ho was taken ID the Country
Club emergency hospital where hc died
later Ihc brief information tho officials
have about The woman /. her Statement
ahat her father is William smith ~
Denton Md
Guard Ill WITH F@FTHO>tt
Leo Costello q guard stationed ~ rne
ninth floor of the du Pont Puhdlng. naa
contracted double pneumonia IIe was
taken yesterday Noon to the homeopathic
Hospital One lung 5 badly rnngested
Mr Costello and John q Purcell another
du Pont Building guard, volunteered thcir
services Al the GountrY Club Hospital
week ago Friday. when tho epidemic was
II IT'S Acight and when there was nsuffi-
clent hclp Mr. Purcell worked at he
hospital until last Thursday Mr. 4 osteiia
was aken -ick with Influenza after two
davs of service A orderly, later develop
ng pneumonia
ARtEtt LUX ~HiP bstREEh-,
The Piisev 4 lone- Co has ncen nam
aiming 4 company nurse 10 the person oi
Miss Matte sullivan who has fccn visit
ng SICK employees Of he company to learn
what assistance vas needed and pos
slbIe giving Il herself Or seeing mat lt
was provided There have been 30 deaths
among In-ey & Jones IS employees
There noR are about IS eases ia uc CON-
panv hospital. Other ea-es afe yelHg
cared Tor by ne tpmpany nurse Miss
sullivan
BABIES Ho~PIIAL DOING GOOD HOFk
0ne oi he most valuable emergency
stations a ne rity mas been fhe en-
poraTy hospital for babies established al
he People settlement ia barge I'd
Mss " isr Is BE- Head nurse Yesterday
mere werr % >iee 1.bie, All ii hem t-rs
~l-a ogr al ait.H. liau tt7.n tdm te4
On SATURDAY Miss Wise Ha- lus $50
r..ued muses. ~ urlp her. one Ias Hur~-.
tui ono might nIrSe Three other muse,
HEo were taking care of he babies are
now suffering from iuhuenz3 themselves
he< are Miss Crime Miss Height AMI
Miss Rowe. Miss Isabelle HalkeJt 4
member Of the staff OF ne People Settle
ment. has been seriously ii WITH atueala.
bur = now reeuperating
Mos 81 ne sick babies 4l. a..1tai.a
ed>e> lh,s art sert p1len ~
nurses >aE ha, th, I-tiy Ht>. le
getting aeiI are perfect aars.nE> SIN
their fascinating baby vaSe ha 6aHe-
ask the public to please send them some
oranges, which thcN need ver2 much, 50
they can get well quickly
As fast a, he babies are couFaieseent
taey arc taken "a the house Fl Wash
ugton Stree. whose Use Was donated 70
he city and = most door Il = \lc1ael
Day Nursery Mos i these i'aole~. VINO
arc beng taken .ar. p q tle People
Settlement have mothers "nu sire deo-
peratcly sich II The Country Cluo 2r Other
emergency places
IMPOSSIBLE Tie MAZE NiN
4 rir>t the nurses It he People Settle
mcnt tried to visit homes IN hat nelghbor-
hood where here nere children sick with
the intlucns3 and advise their mothers Is
10 the tare oi them bu now hat the
three nur9cS obtaInable haye their hands
,verfu,l this has become impossible
Toward ae cnd Of last week the epidemic
4, far is the children ID that nti.hb9r-
were concerned seemed to be eesemng
but the nurses fear hat the number Of
eases of sick children Is again on the
increase
The Ioung Men Club at the Settle
ment has gwen a great deal Of help III the
emergency The Girl Scouts are gong
ahead faithfully with the selling of Liberty