Evening journal., 1918-10-04


OF the Riverview Cemetery and Of The
Cathedral Cemetery, appeared to the
Board Of Health for grave diggers. They
cannot get the graves ready in time foI
the funerals. there are so many. The
board eot in toiNch with the officials
Of the Emergency Fleet Corporation
today. and they sent five men 10 the
Riverview Cemetery and three men 10
the Cathedral Cemetery, TO dig graves
Other volunteers are wanted. over
worked doctors have not been able TO
report all the deaths as yet, but the
total is approximately two hundred.
There are about i25 pa tents in the
Country Club Emergency Hospital
There were five deaths there last night
and others were not expected 10 live
The Country Club has fllled up so rap
idly. that patients are now being plac-
ed in the new Homeopathic building
emergency hospital, which has about
nifty patients. and cots are being set up
In the old Hammond laundry building
The Board Of Health at noon found
no abatement Of the epidemic, but an
increase. though nothing like the in
crease OF yesterday.
Mrs. Henry b. Thompson, this morn
ing, offered the building at No. 2ii
WASHINGTON street. as an emergency
hospital 70 the Board of Health The
Brownson Library Association has Of
fered its building as an emergency hos
pital Tho trustees Of West presby-
terrain Church have offered the use
Of their chapel as a hospital. The gym
nasium Of Friends School has also been
rendered 20 the health department.
These offers viii be accepted If the
buildings shall be needed.
Senator Willard salisbury came back
10 the city from Washington last night,
after he had been apprised Of the SER
tous conditions here, by Mayor Law
son.
The Fame Fire Company have offer
ed TO supply men as automobile drivers
II they are wanted by the Red Cross.
The Emergency Hospital for ship
workers az the New Century Club re-
ported nnety-one patients az noon.
There were no deaths besides the one
reported last night. The hospital is
fairly well or for nurses
There are thirty sick nurses at the
Delaware Hospital. which has sent
awav al its influenza patients except
Ously I'D. one Is reported q be in
critical condition. but there have been
no deaths except that Of Miss Dyberg,
last nieht
There are twenty influenza patients
at The Physicians and Surgeons Hospi-
tai. two Of them being nurses.
There are now thirty men sick with
the disease at the New Castle County
Workhouse. but no deaths there are
recorded.
The fourteen patients at the New Cas-
&c County Emergency Hospital are all
doing well.
!, The state Hospital at Farnhurst this
noon reported seven cases, but no
deaths
Word was received this morning from
Mrs William y. Grinith who is with
her son. Cornwen J Griffth. at the
Great Lakes Naval Station. near Chi
cago. that his condition is much i'm
proved. He has been seriously ill with
influenza ana Mrs. Griflth left here last
Saturday TO be near her son during his
Illness. Young Griffith left Wilmington
for the Naval Station about four weeks
ago with several othes young men from
this vicinity Ralph FArner, son of Mr..
and Mrs. George w. Turner, OF No. tii6
Adams street and Newton J. Derrickson,
Jr. son Of Mrs. Evelyn Derrickson, Of
Elsmere. two Of the young men who
went TO Chicago with Grifflth have
since died, BON victims Of the infu-
snza
The funeral Of young Turner was
held on Wednesday and the Derrickson
funeral viii be held at 2.30 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon from the residence
of his mother at Elsmtre.
Herbert White. Of No al East Eighth
street. who has been IN with the influ-
enzs, has recovered and was able 10 be
out Today Three sons are also III with
tho disease, but they were all reported
e be improving today.
One Of the new units established for
the care Of children during the epi-
acmic. has been started at the Peoples
under the auspices OF the
Welfare division, Womens Committee
Of the State Defense Council. Here the
children afflicted. that the hospitals
cannot accommodate are cared for un-
DER the direction Of Miss Margaret Wise, |
supervisor OF nursing for the Welfare !
division.
saperintendent Lyons Of Delaware
n,ospl'al, has been compelled TO refuse
sna.9 % patients at the Delaware Hos
e.aai, , Dut these have been sent to the
oos.ehent, where the children are rn-
eeNlhs tne best Of attention
Government Nurses Here
rive doctors and ten nurses win y.
sent 10 Wilmington from Wasbir....-
IN response TO an appeal for hein 80 80
TINS city. Major John W Ill a.oll |
called UP Senator Willard s,,,,ss'. nIsson
yesterday afternoon, over the ,e,s
phone, telling him Of the serious CO..
dition the city Is in, and the inahiiis,,
of doctors and nurses to handle an the
cases.
Senator Salisbury took the matter
<up Immediately with Federal authori-
ties. and sent the following telegram
TO Mayor Lawson. which was received
sduring the afternoon session Of the
Board Of Health.
= Surgeon general advises that five
doctors and ten nurses are being dis
: sspatched TO Wilmington by the Public
Health Service"
The added help viii aid materially in
fel1eviug the strain on the already
,oyor-wcrked physicians and nurses hero
who have served patriotically and
without stint. Arrangements were
made to take the. nurses to The Della
ware Hospital Nurses Home. Tenth
and Jefferson streets The physicians
have been sent to The Country Club,