Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-10-09

Six additional deaths from influ-
en2a occurred in Tulsa yesterday.
Several deaths have occurred at
neighbor:ng towns and cities At
one hotel in Sand Springs six per
sons have been removed to the hos
pitals and all have died. The death
toll is incomplete.
Those in charge OF the health de-
partment have estimated that there
were between $500 and 1000 cases
In Tulsa Tuesday evening.
Every nurse in the city is working
overtime, while Mrs. Colemans s
corps OF sixty nurses aids are work
ink like yeomen in the homes of this
city, Sand Springs and West Tulsa
These nurses aids are in practically
every case. business girls, whose en-
ployers are. excusing them from Of
lice work for the duration Of the
epidemic.
Mayor Z. II. Hubbard has asked
all physicians to send all cases OF
= - ~ g the emo sshcy hospital,
corner First and Elgin. who are un-
able 10 have proper care at home,
Is great danger of contagion
He also asks that all cases Of In
nuenza be quarantined, or where
thls Is not feasible, the house pla-
cdrded.
Urgent precautions have been re-
ceived by the home service depart
ment of the Red Cross from head
quarters at Washington in regard to
preventing the spread of this dread
malady
The local home service ask all
lheir families who have cases of in
iIuenzd, typhoid or pneumonia, and
nave not proper care, TO report to
the home service office. and these
eases Will be taken to the emergency
hospital for treatment.
y Call for Supplies.
. 10 properly combat the spread of
Spanish influenza in Tulsa. the
emergency hospital at First and Ell
gun has been fitted up and is now
taxing care of more than a score OF
patients. a complete transformation
mas been taking place at this emer-
Hency station, formerly the deten-
uon camp.
The entire building has recently
oen subjected to IS hours formalde-
hyde fumigation under the supervi-
SION OF the city board OF health.
TRUSTEES from the county jail have
carried out all the former furniture.
burned all badly used or infected
drucics. and have thoroughly
sruobed the walls. floors. windows
ana woodwork, rinslng them off
WIN powerful disinfectant The
walls ceilings and woodwork have
neen given "a coat OF whitewash, a
a'S!ntectant in itself, and sixty san
nary cots with we'll sterilized bed
IinI Installed by the boys OF the
nome guards and the Second Okla
nomdns under the supervision of
Mrs. II. Il. Carey, who is working
"oo'y IN the preparation OF the ur-
gently needed hospital.
several of the large, well ventis
lated rooms have been prepared and
tAe quarters viii, be extended as fast
as they can be made ready.
A Place OF Refuge.
ceiling fans and electric lights
nave been installed, and the emer-
s,hcy hospital, fittingly renamed by
rA Coleman, The Ark" because
A 70 a place Of refuge in the midst
VI oesolation, and a,so, she added,
WIN an amused, quiZzical smile, be
,ause 1t has "A l.ttle OF everything in
~ is now very convenient and very
sanitary and clean.
iietetiC kitchen, where the
nurses will prepare the special foods
'"r 'helr patients, has been fitted up,
as well as surgeons room for the
use OF the city's physicians. and a
nurses quarters with restroom.
Mrs, II. Il. Carey and Mrs. r. G.
hospital.
Mrs. Coleman. chairman OF the
nurses aid committee OF the Red
oross' Is in charge OF the nurses
corps and will spend most Of her
uhe at the hospital. She now has
a corps OF thirty volunteer nurses.
VINO VIII remain at the hospital dur
ing the epidemic, working in shifts
o' Ten each, under the supervision OF
trained Red Cross nurse.
mrs, William u. Godfrey will act
dS supervisor until two more trained
u,"rSes Will volunteer to aid her.
hoIc nurses, practical as well as
r4Ihed' are urgently needed both at
ms hospital and for the cases in this
and surrounding localities.
captain l.. j. +. Rooney and his
00'nbbSHx bbSHx OF home guards viii pre-
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