Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-15
GRIPPE CRISIS IS REACHED;
SHOULD EBB FROM NOW ON
John Marshall Emergency Hospital
Chart Shows Situation De-
cidedly Encouraging.
WORST CASES ARE RECOVERING
Lecky's Forces Prepare Baker School
for Colorcd Patients and y. NJ. III.
N. Building for Convalescents.
School Forces Render Much Aid.

The crisis In the influenza epidemic
so far as Richmond is concerned gem
orally and the emergency hospital In
particular, has already been reached
and safely passed, according to the off,
cial chart in Dr. Il. G.. l.. Miller's office
a; the hospital. which shows Thursday to
have been the day on which the fatal
liuc marked it's highest point. Since
then'it has dropped steadily downward,
and the entih hospital has been per-
meated with the cheerful information
hat the ''nu' forces were in full re-
treat.
The Baker School will be opened as
an emergency hospital this morning for
colored patients i'll with Influenza Il.
u. Lecky. chairman OF extensions, and
enormous work yesterday getting the
Baker School ready TO open this morn
ing. The heating and plumbing ar
rangementS of the building had 10 be
overhauled TO a certain extent and gas
mains looked after Mr.. Lecliy has also
perfected Arrangements for the opening
ohm Marshall, as Il convalcscent ward,
to which VIII be moved this morning.
MOST SERIOUSLY ILL PATIENTS
NOW ON ROAD 40 RECOVERY.
OF the dozen very i'll patients in tho
pneumonia ward, seven We're free from
fever yesterday. which the physicians
thought most encouraging. DIR. Miller
states that they have lost very small
she hospital. There are now +22 cases
OF jpfueu2a and pneumonia in the
hospital.
or this number twenty one had been
the smallest number for several days
There We're four deaths yesterday
Mrs. Bessie Bottoms. l4o7 Senimes Ave
que; Tom Wolfe. Wi,hS9w; Wis; Mrs
and Miss Grace Southall, 2302 Eenable
Street. According to DIR. Millers rec
ords, there have been only fourteen
brings the total w to but eighteen.
The breathing spell given the medical
stan by the lessening Of the. hold Of
for the first time since the organization
of the hospital to answer outside calls
for help. one. of these was from
troop-train held At the Main Street Sta
ton. and the other WAS an out-ot-town
call for an investigation of conditions
in Hopeweli. where the ',fu'. was re-.
ported TO be taking death toll of
so per cent OF the cases.
DIR. stuart Michaux, chief OF the med
ical staff OF the hospital and DR.: Robert
Bryan Immediately went to Hopewell
in car TO make a survey OF the In
Euenza situation. The troops were
found TO be suffering more from panic
than influenza on board
SISTER DEAD, BROTHER SICK,
BUT HE STAYS ON THE JOB
The spirit OF the volunteer workers
Is beautifully shown in the instance Of
one OF the employees OF the telephone
busy Installing. the thirty phones and
ten, trunk lines. II had wire yes
terday from. North Carolina saying my
told DR.. Miller. and that my brother
in-law was very sick couldn't do
ANYTHING il went down there. and
sick here in the city, so | have lust
The, school force from Acting, super
in the administration building has been
in the thick Of the fight against iniiu-
rnza since The, very day that the
the teachers on the South Side. every
teacher who has not been Ill has been
busy all the time.
the school people. following the order
closing the schools. and the teachers
Of eaeh school resolved into visiting
Families were visited. trst-aid given
and serious cases reported. The City
school Board car has not gone, block
Oh emergency calls In influenza cases,
and +. q. Spear. OF the John Marshall
High school faculty. has been acting
as chauffeur of the car.
TEACHERS VOLUNTEER no
STEM MALADY'S TIDE
The teachers in all the departments
nave volunteered i'm large numbers 10
aid in stemming the. endemic that IS
now upon u.s." said Mr.. Hill yesterday.
The entire medical CORPS including
the nurses. is busy day and night. The
manual training force has turned out
over 900 bedside tablets for the John
Marshall hosnitai, and Is still at work
for it The school clerks are working
overtime in the. offices at the John Mar
shall. The principals and teachers
have volunteered in large numbers for
the work at the hospital, In DR.. Elan