Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-09
HOSPITALS FOR
GRIP SUFFERERS
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Harrisburg public school directors
at meeting this morning sanctioned
the plan to turn the building over
Tor hospital purposes.
A committee of members of the
harrisburg chapter of the Red Cross
Is cooperating with the City Health
Bureau and. DIR. Raunick said. will
arrange details along the line of pro-
curing nurses and cots and other
equipment. The health officer said
that more emergency hospitals prob
ABLY Will be opened before the end
OF the week. Four or five prominent
Harrisburg families have offered the
use OF their homes for emergency
hospitals and DIR. Raunick said his
bureau is endeavoring to lease sew
eral large halls and auditoriums for
emergency hospital uses.
West Shore Affected
west FalrView, Enola and other
cumberland county towns are in the
grip of influenza, and Dr. Harvey
6asehore' the medical inspector of
Cumberland county. last night an
pealed to the local health bureau for
doctors. DR.. S. 1. Cadwallader. the
West Fairview physician, is working
day and night because of the epi-
demic.
DR.. Ernest c. Weirick, the EnoIa
physician, is abed with influenza.
while several hundred Enola resi-
dents are afflicted with the disease
A large number of those are obtain
ing medicine through DIR. Weirick's
office. The physician is prescribing
from his bedroom and his wife is
dspensing drugs. Mrs. Weirick said
this morning that she is having a
hlSV time nrrCiner
attending to the wants of the pa
tients.
one Harrisburg physician went to
West Fairview yesterday at noon and
he spent four hours among the pa
uents. This morning he said he now
has symptoms of the disease.
\ druggist reported this morning
that he filled 123 prescriptions on
Sunday, III on Monday and 127 yes
terday. Only five city physicians
made report to the Health Bureau
this morning, and they certified an
aggregate of forty-six new cases. If
all the city physicians had a propor-
tnonate increase of cases, the Health
Bureau reckons that more than 1000
developed within the last twenty
four hours.
The Red Cross committee will en-
deavor to get registered nurses for
the emergency hospital and an ap-
peal also will be made for first-aid
workers as we'll as some women who
have no first-aid experience In look
ing around for halls that might be
used for emergency hospital pur-
poses, the health officer said he is
paying most. attention to those build
ings that have elevator service.
More Emergency Hospitals
He predicted that the city will
have four or five emergency hos
pitals within the next week. The
most serious of the influenza patients
will be sent to the hospital as we'll
as pneumonia sufferers. 1t is DR..
Raunick's idea not to have a corps
of physicians in charge OF the emer-
gency, HOSPITALS but. on the contrary,
have the family physicians visit their
patients at the hospital. just as they
would visit the homes
TIE Cumberland county medical in
.spector was told this morning that
Harrisburg is unable to furnish ply
sicians. because all the city physi-
clans are badly needed here and they
are being overworked with the many
local cases.
Three Deaths
Three deaths since yesterday
were reported at the HarrisburF,
Hospital. with e'even more admis-
sions. There are now forty-one in
fluenza patients at TIE hospital.
Those who have died since yesterday