The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-22
MORE CASES.
Three Deaths From Influenza
in Last SO Hours.
The Emergency Hospital VIII
BE Closed Monday.

Twenty new cases of influenza were
shown on the records on file in the
office of public health department this
morning. In the opinion of DR.. H. L.
Clark. city health officer, the fact that
numbers OF new cases have arisen
daily is due to the cold, damp weather
which has prevailed off and on for
some time. 1t tends to keep people
indoors. says Doctor Clark, in poorly
ventilated houses and other buildings,
where If any one person has the germ
of the disease, other persons are prac-
tically sure to be infected.
One death was reported this morn
ing. A Mrs. White. a colored woman,
living ut 703 Center street, died at
4:3U O'Clock this morning from in
fluenza. Thursday the deaths of Mrs.
A. B. Griggs of 1929 Western avenue,
ana Earl T. Douglas of 1412 Jackson
street, were reported. Deaths are nos
occurring as rapidly as they did at
the apex of the epidemic. but there
has been an average of about one
death reported each day for several
weeks. 4
Close Hospital Monday.
The emergency hospital, located in
the Reid Hotel, at Fourth and Kansas
avenue. will be discontinued on Mon
day, November 25. But in a meeting
held this morning, Commissioner w.
l.. Porter. County Physician w. b.
ing the Red Cross, met with the coun-
ty commissioners to arrange to use II e
building occupied by the Provident
association as temporary hospital
The plans are not yet definitely out
lnSd but when the hospital is closed
on Monday, If there are any patients
left who are not in a condition to be
sent home, they will be taken to the
Provident association. Other cases
arising, both in the county and in the
<,sf = III
to be cared for at their homes, viii be
cared for at the Provident association.
where hospital will be maintained as
long as the necessity is apparent. Some
of the hospitals about town may aid
by taking an occasional influenza pa
tent altho they are not particularly
desired in most of the hospitals.
The city authorities are also plan
ming to keep two or three extra nurses
to go out into homes to take care OF
of the nurses are practically worn out
by long service at the emergency
hospital and some of them have con-
tracted influenza themselves. They
are not getting nearly enough rest
and many are close to the breaking
nurses are still coming in altho the
purses cannot be supplied.
81 Patients In Hospital.
There were 81 patients at the hos
pital today. Two were sent to their
homes this morning. There were 16
there Thursday night but 6 were
brought in this morning altho the
hospital ceased to receive new patients
several days ago. But there was a
colored family of six in which every
member of the family was down with
the disease and there was no other
way to care for them except to take
them to the emergency hospital If
they are not recovered by. Monday
they will be taken to the Provident
Association when the hospital is
closed. All the patients are now be-
ing cared for on the fourth floor and
the third floor Is being fumigated AND
scrubbed with antiseptics to make it
a safe place when the Reid Hotel is
allowed to resume business.
Six weeks ago today the emergency
hospital opened its doors. By that
evening there were forty-one patients
under the care of the nurses. For
three weeks it was a terrifically busy
place. Altogether in six weeks, PAT
patients have been cared for by the
staff at the hospital. or on an average
of forty new patients a week. During
the last three weeks the work has not
been nearly so heavy as in the first
three operating weeks