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pitals 4 few calls for undertskers were
| received. .
Midshipman william :. 'rowell ''2o
{ Usage avenue died last night al lhe
! Naval Hospital at Annapolis The MID
/ shipman was "A son Of Samuel X crow
| ell. vice president OF the George h, New
/ ton Coal Company.
The Young naval officers death brings
| the total deaths among the brigade OF
! midshpmen at Annapolis mp to eight.
1 Midshipman Eldrd Sturterant. of CHI
I csgo. also died in the Naval Hospital
there last night. About one-half of the
olO0 midshipmen a Annapolis have been
affected By the disease
Visiting Soldiers stricken
Fifteen soldiers and an officer Of an
army motor transport corps. quartered
over night on the fourth floor Of city
Hall, while en- route from Camp Hol-
lngbrd. Md. to an Atlantic port, con-
tracted epidemic influenza last night
and were removed to the emergency hos
pital at the Phiopatrian Club. They
are members of Company f, Berwick.
Pa. unit and Company 3, Of Baltimore.
| Eighth Division. L. : army motor
TRANSPORTATION service.
Lieutenant A. W. Jones. in command
of the unit is one of the sufferers. none
of whom is seriously i'll. according to
information given out at the emergency
hospital this morning. A rumor that
seven of the soldiers had died during
the night was denied by the nurse In
charge.
Charles T. Hall. secretary OF Select
Council conferred today with Mayor
Smith. Finance Chairman Gaffney and
Director Krusen. A building probably
|, will be rented by the city to quarter
soldiers in in the future.
| II had been the idea to billet them in
the new Medico-chi Hospital but the
plan had to be abandoned when IL was
converted into an emergency hospital to
fight the influenza epidemic.
Downtown stores Not 10 close
South Philadelphia business men tods y
denied rumor that downtown stores
planned to close for several days to help
check the epidemic James F. Lennon,
executive secretary of the South Phila-
delphia Business Mems Association. said
he saw no reason for such action.
Seven deaths from influenza and fifty
new cases were reported in Gloucester
in the last twenty-four hours. Among
. the dead is Miss Lillian Franks. 24t
South Broadway, whose father. Edwin
Franks. died from influenza last sun
/ day.
Hugh j Ramsey. general superin-
utendent of the Pusey a. Jones ship
. yards. is reported critically III at his
, home. 500 Mercer street. Relatives,
including his brother. state Senator
, Ramsey. of Middlesex County, New Jer-
sey. were summoned 10 his bedside last
, night.
, The situation in shipyards along the
Delaware River Is improving At the
, Pusey Jones yard 500 men who hao
= been III were wei enough To return tC
. work and the number of new cases is
, said to be steadily decreasing.
; The University of Pennsylvania Hos
, ptal today loaned three nurses and TIVE
social workers to the Visiting Nurse So
! city. 1910 Lombard street. The societ,
now has a stan OF sixty-eight nurses
, Automobiles provided by the Emergency
. Aid are carrying many Cf the nurses
: about on their rounds.
, A survey Of the city and OF indus
> trial establishments, made through medi
cal reports tends to confirm the be
lief OF Health Director Krusen that th'
!, influenza epidemic is receding.
There has been no marked increase II
q the disease in the Fourth Naval Dis
. trct. according To Or. Fairfax Irwin
!, senior surgeon OF the United states
public health service,
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|, ~, NV .r,,a M -,
a sen announced. Theatres, moving pic
r ture houses churches, saloons ant
a Paoe 80 ,iossd nrnhshI,
" eanm are VI 10
8 ioi WV
i The Health Dlrector decided not t
d restrict private pnysiciahS 10 CERTAIN
! zones OF the city
q The zonlng plan was proposed L
70 check long-dislance cans py physician
y and to restrict them to sections in III
n that physicians should make as rev Ion