Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-20
44PAT|ENTS DISCHARGED
FROM SCHOOL HOSPITAL
oniy ono Death During Day, Bring.
ing Total at Institution Up
to F1fty.Seven.
PERIOD OF EXCITEMENT OVER
from Now On, Influenza Fighters
Have Only Steady Grind of Work.
Help Given Other Stricken COM
munities by Authorities.

The keynote to tho situation at the
Sohn Marshall emergency hospital was
Wits Of the Sy e fy K Kes + che
, ~no sits at a desk. in the receiving
ware ward and checks up IN a big ledger on
her desk facts concerning a total Of
.eS patients who have been admitted
&c the hospital
III my opinion. said Mrs. Flanna-
wheel In every worth while movement
started in Richmond for years, 1.-THE real
u, ,est IN this influenza situation. 30 far
upon US. Tne excitement Is over. Work
rom now on Is bound to be more or
s iess OF grind. and it remains to be
seen now many of uB will stick to our
posts and see. It through"
,,o me forty-four patients discharged
YESTERDAY brought the total up to 1874.
Joshua Robinson. a coiored man. who
died at the Baker emergency hospital,
W W,nieh brings the total Of deaths UP to
ndt,yi;tseyen: Eleven new patients were
no, 70 see some cases brought to the
eesi Is to be very grateful to have
last patient SrouFh, 81 IN arom The am he
pulance yesterday afternoon was a
SSounE woman. who. struggling for
iriam e Sfahg sev monotononsiy In the de-
stretcher in the receiving ward
NJ. are they often as. bad as thatr'
lava rrahn ma an was ns,a asked while Or. A
tho patient. They are often verv
gan sadly.
CHILDREN ORPHANED WHILE
THEY THEMSELVES SUFFER-
A peculiarly touching feature Of the
hospital has been the fact that many
c chMden who have been patients In the
influenza to ind that their homes had
ceen devastated by the disease and
5nas they. In several instances. have
S Seen orphaned whilo they lay in the
Recognizing this situation, the min
, ns committee under tho chairman-
Is n OF hsy. J, j. scherer. "; D. D.:
chioren who arc ready to be discharE.
ca. and Father Hannigan has secured a
h h tor the colored children who are
M ION, or. for any reason. cannot re-
Turn TO their own homes just yet, where
propaoiy other members OF the family.
S s ,j ~ u seHetai cases. the entire family
Miss Blanche Webb. who has been
on: on DUTY In the hospital. was sent to
B nG SsuthT ns y,es,terday TO help DR..
sent to another part OF the State where
inc situation has gotten out OF hand,
ana Dr. Mclean Is up at Clifton Forge,
news that there were 500 cases and
only one doctor. who was himself III
Dr. Mclean Immediately took two
nurses and went to clifton Forge. He
wired for twenty-five beds with which
10 start an emergency hospital The
telegram was received within one hour
OF train time.
Now that the tension 10 relaxing,
Dr.. Miller can relate with amusement
how in that one hour Bob" Lecky not
only got the needed beds for DR.. Nc
Lean, but Communicated trucks, got
them to the station, and, finding no
available car space for the beds, un-
loaded part OF an express car-but tho
Forge.
Then DR.. McLean's two nurses both
got sick, and again he wired for help,
and Dr.. Miller sent him two medical
students yesterday.
Teacher of the city schoola," said