The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-10-17
Health Department Indicate
Closed Town viii Be
Continued Indefinitely
After This Week.
CONDITIONS STILL BETTER
Situation Is Pretty Fairly Good" Is
Report of Health Commissioner,
But Many Deaths Are Reported
In Twenty-four Hours.

If you are laying plans for the
meeting of your lodge, your club, or
any other kind of a public assemblage
for next week-forget it. At the Of
fee of the Health Department this
morning it was stated that there was
no reason to believe that the ban ON
public assemblages would be lifted at
the end of the present week-th date
set in the order for closing and Health
Commissioner Windesheim declared
that the closest guess he could make to
it would be that the ban would con-
tinue 'indefnitely"
Many requests for the holding OF
public OF semi-publie gatherings have
been made to the department. and ev-
cry one of these requests has been
denied. Tt is understood among mem
Ebers Of the Health Department that
the ban on public assemblages must be
maintained until the danger Of conta-
gion is over,
Tt is lust possible that IN der for
ire-opehing rAe sehegss VII be issued
little earlier than an order for re-
sumption of other public gatherings
but this has not been decided on by
the Health Board.
| Health Commissioner Windesheim de-
elared that there had been a slight
change for the better in Kenosha in
the past forty eight hours. "The sit
uation is pretty fairly good he de-
clared in summing it all up. "EThere
are still new cases coming in but only
small portion of them are being re-
ported on account of the fact that the
doctors are all decidedly busy. How
ever we can see an improvement
DIR. Windesheim declared that the
present epidemic was no different from
epidemics of the grippe which had
swept the country in 1890, 1891 and
1892 and he declared that he was fear
full that more or less contagion from
the disease would continue for soma
months and possibly for years.
The fact that no one is out of dan
ger of taking the disease was shown
by the fact that it had developed in
family which had been under strict
quarantine for diphtheria "No one
had gone into that house since the first
part of the month" declared the com
missioner, and yet these people have.
taken the influenza. 1t is possible for
the germ to be carried in letters and
papers and in any other way and for
this reason people must be cautious
We hope that people viii not get hys-
terical. We have had reports Of peo-
pie being very sick and when investi-
cations were made we found their
temperatures normal. There has been
number of these cases but we would
rather have the people too careful than
too careless"
The visible supply of nurses for the
city was reduced on Tuesday when
Miss Crown who came from Milwau-
kee to help out here was taken with
the disease and she is now very i'll
One of the other nurses who came FROM
Milwaukee With her mas Deen assigned
to care for her.
The death list for the last twenty
four hours was long one-nine deaths
being reported. Nearly all of these
people died from pneumonia and it is
declared that further deaths from
pneumonia may be expected as many
people who were taken with the in
fuenza have developed pneumonia.
The police were ordered to disperse
crowd of people which had gathered
for funeral this morning and the
Health Board has directed similar ac-
ton to be taken in every case where
attempts are made to hold public fun
erals.