Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-27
1903 NEW GRIPPE CASES )
REPORTED IN RICHMOND
Although Death Toll Continues Al.
palling, Evidence Is That
Malady Is Subsiding.
s75 FATALITIES no DATE
Hospitals Make Fine Records I'm Car.
ing for Sufferers--Catholics Rcn-
der Great Service in Emergency.
Churches May Open Soon.

Deaths in This city from Spanish in.
huenza refuse to DO reduced in number.
II appears from daily reports looming
into the City Health Department.. There
were twcntv-two deaths from this nal
adS' yesterday. The total nunlbcr of
aeatns from al ciusos reported :eE-
terday vas thirty. These figures arc
IN tho nciFhbo.hood of those OBTAIN
inE for more than week. during
which time the Epidemic has been re-
sardcd a9 subs:ding.
numbered only los. the fewcst report
ed for any ono day since the pia guc
struck It's stride here. There have
since October !. The total NUMBER OF
deaths from tho epidemic now is over
inc 500 mark by three. This makes
per cent. The death rate OF the pop
Diation Is about one-tilird Of l per cent.
which Is comparatively low in the light
Of the tragedy Of rrmy camps and other
cities and towns.
lbs DEATHS REsrhIED
FROM FLU TO OCTOBER Is
Bet-een tho beginning OF the scourEc
and October - there were 12S ihhuen-
"a deaths In the city. since that time
there have been S7i deaths from the
inalady. They occurred az follows: oc-
tobcr 18th. thirty-cight; 18th. thirty
eight: 18th. th!rty-nve: 18Th. twenty
eight; 2c.h. thirty; 2Isf. eighteen; nd
Twenty-Five: 25th, twenty-five. ard
18th t*e,nty.'wo. These rcportn ind
fected. They also indicate that this
mortality rate Is obstinate about com
ing doTn. even in the face Of a great
Or. Roy Is. Flanagan. Chief Health
Cfiicer. has stated that he would not
sanction housc-to- house war cav
school children. 1t waa later learned
that the canvass was 10 be made b.
adults. DR.. Fiannagan stated that the
schools were closed 10 prevent tho very
thing that would result from soliciting
children entering infected houses. II
Is not expected that adults VIII enter
homes in the canvass.
FLANAGAN HOPES TO
OPEN CHURCHES SOON
While DR.. Flanagan is reported 20
have said that his hopes extended to
open churches next SUNDAY, yet tho
death ratio remains so formidable that
quarantine against Richmond this week.
end; The commanding officer Of tho
cantonment was glad TO cooperate
appointment TO many soldiers ahd their
Richmond friends.
The local horpitais have mado an
many patients during the epidemic
Yet the John Marshall emergency hos
pital has accorded equally good treat.
nent to the patients interned there,
nov II discharges a dozen or 80
every dag. The improved conditions
are ouch that no moro patients VIII
be admitted there from this time on
unless there should be secondary
epidemic. as HAS been the case In
Philadelphia such a.TeRstitien is not
expected here,"as II is Fthc policy 20 I
the Health Department to continue IN
it's preventive methods II has. how
ever. been the principle OF the city
Health Department for some time to
steer patients to regular wards for the
purpose Of clearing John Marshall
iiiGh School for educational purposes
as soon as conditions warrant.
The health officials are not short