Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-18
GRIPPE FIGHTERS
MORE OPTIMISTIC
Think Climax Of Situation Has
Been Passed and Danger
Will Lessen.
TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS IN DAY
Sudd's Serum Proves Efficacious
as Cure for Pneumonia
in Several Cases.
TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS in DAY

-Hi'Housn the plague continues IN
ciain as high as twenty-five victim .
oaS In this city. the confidence -,
thc medical profession that the enj.
oeinlc mas reached its climax ana tho
iact that doctors have ample time IN
make their reports have lessened tho
panic feIt here for several days. Once
more the public breathes almost freely
ana institutions OF religion ard educa :
.'oh arc ciamorins TO reopen their
uoors' From this time on the policy
OF the City Health Department will he
10 Keep regular hospitals and warSs
hled with patients rather than hav;,
emergency wards continue 10 hold RI y
80. 49,, THIS is the only method by when
's 'ohh Marshall High School could
:, nc rcconNertcd from q hospital.
~ = not possible. however that schoolS
2nd churches Will open. accordin- 10
Cb,ots' t'gI ~; fiannasan. Richmond city
i, and maybe not so soon
Inere were 6o3 additional cases re-
B99rr'ed Yesterday. but Of this number
Z2' were reported by a single doctor.
poubiless most of these cases are now
vel There are several hundred other
eases hnow,n TO be ready to be reported
oy other physicians now ina nosition
to III out blank records.
OFFICIAL. REPORTS SHOW
S."5:s CASES IN CITY
Thc total reported to date lis Sa5s
OF thirty-tire deaths in Richmond yes
terday twenty-fvc resulted from pncu-
monia Latest statistics Show that the
greatest number of deaths on any one
day occurred on October ID. Statist les
!cstcrday indicated that this happened
on October Is, Later statistics may.
change the impression again
TIE cxac; cause Of this epidemic re-
mains in The minds OF many. If no;
has been difference of opinion respect,
ing tho germ that caused either the
inRuon.a or the frequently subsequent
Up Il. the tine of the announcements
Of the findings from the use OF anti
sireptococcus serum in tho 1enumonia
pr. Samue! Budd, OF the Richmond in
luenza emergency hospital. the state
fnM,r BOARD O. Health had not felt that it
a definite method of fragment for these
cases, The Indications. however, now
are definite that many Of Increases OF
To he nala slnenFa
OF TO the usual germ OF pneumonia. IN
varionS tia Parts Of the State reports SHOW
pneumonia have been fatal.
DIR. nEDD'S SERUM BELIEVED
TO HAVE CURED MANY
Or Budd had anti-streptococcus Sc
rnm administered TO twenty patients,
ing condition when this treatment wsS
TNcn. OF this group only these two
nave died. The results In the other
cases arc declared ny prominent and
conservative physicians 10 be nttlc
short OF miraculous.
This serum is not used as a proven
i've. but is A cure for the so-calIed
stFeptococcus pneumonia. SO frequently
co'n2licasirS or following influenza 1t
IS nct new serum. but one which has
oeen IN use foT streptococcus infections
body for several years
pr budd has also prepared for dis
,,r.bTtton, thrSIeh 'he State BOARD of
Health and Otherwise, a vaccine 10 he
used in the Fly stages of influenzs
20 prevent the development oc pneumn-
ria 1t is also believed that this Will
orovc or definite value and will be
:"u"i e'icacious in preventing many
r-sea OF 'reu N Gn':i. thrs saving man:
lives This vaccine Will be sent out
q rapidly AS possible to various parts
OF the state wher: needed
The C4tholic Women's Auxiliary OF
the ted Cross Society continues to con-
tribute Us par; in lighting the cpl
otmic Yesterday. under the direction
OF Mrs. Clinton Eoudar IL supplied tho
John Marshall High School emergency
hospital with twenty-five bed SPREADS.
eiShty-five pads. twelve towels, eighty
six face towels. three double sheets
twelve waSh-rags, two gowns, twelve
face rags, thRee night shirts. twenty
one baby napkins. forty eight handler
chiefs, eight new blankets and seven
new gowns. 1t donated to the Instruc-
tive Visiting Nurses Association twelve
dozen face towels and donated 2450
rolls.