New Britain herald., 1918-09-28
EPIDEMIC SPREADS;
e MORE PATIENTS
234 Cases Reported and Health
Board Holds Special Meeting
NURSES GO TO CAMP DEVENS
Two Nurses Left Last Night, Refusing
to Give Their Namcs-Three More
OF Soldiers.

OF Soldiers.
Seventeen new cases OF Spanish in
tlpenza reported to the health depart
lnent as soon as the Office was opened
this morning, aud ! additional cases
reported this noon brings the total
number IN this city up to 234. SO
serious has the epidemic III the city
become that & special meeting OF the
health board has been CAiicG at the
request of Superintendent Il. +.
Moore for this afternoon at o'clock.
AZ this time the health board vii!
thoroughly discuss The situation, viii
receive recommendations from the
superintendent relative 10 the proper
action to pursue and govern their
future actions accordingly. Whether
tie board will recommend the closing
of the theaters, or will take any
other drastic measures, is not known,
but at present there is no reason to
believe that such a plan is under ad
visement.
Among the more recent cases of
Spanish influenza to be reported is
that of Mrs. Henry T.. Moore, wife of
the superintendent of health. Elmer
Thomas of Black Rock avenue is Sc
riously i'll with the disease and Her.
seriously i'll with it. Mrs. Kent and
their young son are also i'll with the
disease. Mrs. Rouillard of Beatty
street, whose son, James, was the
first New Britain man to die in France
with the American FXpeditionary
Forces, has received a telegram from
Camp Devens announcing that her
third son to enter the service is Sc
riously i'll with the influenza.
Fortunately the epidemic has not
as vet reached the school children
and only two cases from among the
ranks of the school children have been
reported. Both of these cases are
from the Grammar school,
Nurses Leave for Camp.
- Early last evening, within a few
hours of hearing the call for nurses
at Camp DeVens, two trained nurses
from this city quietly packed their
necessary equipment and took the
first train for the camp. So quickly
did they go, and so modest were they
of their commenda.!Sle action, that
neither would give their names for
publication. One of these nurses who
left last night took the place of Miss
Theresa Delaney, a nurse at Miss
Nagle's sanitarium, who at the last
moment found it absolutely impossible
to go.
! This afternoon at $50 o'clock
three other nurses will leave by auto
mobile for the camp. They are Mrs.
James Kitson, of the health depart
ment staff, Miss Garce Claffey and
Mrs. Hathaway of South Burrtt
street. Mrs. Hathaway who was, be-
fore her marriage, Miss Gertrude
In
sRr service with the Red Cross and
Has been waiting for three months for
her call. The nurses who will leave
this afternoon will take an extra sup
ply of blankets and equipm ent.
Among the equipment they will take
vail be hypodermic needles and sy-
ringes, hot water bags, ice bags,
clinical thermometers, etc. In the
meantime, as other nurses are re-
leased from their present positions,
or as others volunteer for this work,
they will be sent to camp. Mayor
Quigley expects that another unit
will be ready to leave tomorrow and
1also on Monday. Hartford, Bristol,
New Haven and Willimantic are also
helping in this move.
The remains of Corp. Fred Dalton
will be laid at rest tomorrow afternoon
4 at St Mary's new cemetery following
q services atsSt. Mary's church. Services
wil be conducted at his late home at
2:30 O'Clock in the afternoon and
from there the body VIII be brought
10 the church with military escort. At
bhe church services will be held palb-
u iicy at O'Clock. Representatives
3 trom the Ciy and Home Guard VIII
D serve as escort and the pail and
4 Fower bearers will be chosen from
among their ranks. A funeral mass
u will be sung Monday morning at 1880.
Nj Soldiers Funerals.
@ Services are being conducted this
n afternoon at the Clinton street church,
q Brooklyn, y. Y. for Capt William
8 sbapmon, after which the body of the
& o1al captain Will be sent to this city
3 'or burial and further services. The