The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-10-16
FLU SITUATION

Vista and Clifton Forge emergency
| institutions is being loaned to the
| health authorities by the United
j.. States government and is being
shipped from Seven Pines.
Seek Medical Aid
Requests for medical assistance
continue to pour into the offices OF
/, the state health authorities from all
over the state. DR.. James a. Hurst,
of Pennington Gap. asks for four or
| five doctors. lat once; Dr. 7. H.
Ponce. Of st. Charles, Lee county.
! wires for "at least two more four
year medicos: Two River wants doe
tors. end SO on. Countless cases could
he enumerated.
c. r. McCorkle, the Wise county
chairman of the state council of de-
Tense, wired Colonel Charles r. kei-
ley, executive secretary of the council,
yesterday afternoon that Coeburn is
the worst stricken community in Wise
county. Chairman McCorkle has been
authorized to esta blish an emergency
| hospital at Coeburrf. Hospital faciii-
ties at that point were declared to be
wholly inadequate ard the need for
additional physicians and nurses is
said to be pressing.
Local Fuel Administrators Kilgore,
who hurried to Norton when the sit
udlloH al tiis.t pldts VII SdtVitN' ~ = "
beyond control, got busy imme diately
upon his arrival and established an
| emergency hospital at that point.
Norton Is in what is known as the
St. Charles coal field. According to
Administrator kilgore there are 5000
cases in the coal field alone. Acting
upon the advice of physicians in the
locality, he urged Colonel Kelley to
rush a supply of wiiskey to Norton
to be useti in the treatment of in
fuenza and pneumonia patients. Col
onel Kelley accordingly reauisiuoned
! Commissioner Peters TO ship 90 gal
Ions of whiskey~to Administrator Kill
gore.
The situation along the Eastern
Shore also is said TO he acute Ana
has been dispatched to that section,
Stop Auction Sales
The ctate board of health went
step further than did the state council
of defense in the matter of closing
! tobacco warehouses throughout the
state. The board. in concurring In
the action of the council, embodied in
! its order the inhibition not only OF
/ tobecco warehouses but all forms OF
| auction as we'll. whether they are
/ conducted indoors Or outdoors.
Mayor George Ainslee. acting in
/ accordance with letter received
/ from the state council of defense, yes
! terday issued the following susepnd-
ing all auction sales in the city OF
Richmond:
I II have this day teen handed an
order Of the state board of health and
/ the Virginia council of defense direct
! ing the immediate suspension of all
auction sales, whether indoors or out
! of doors. and you are hereby advised
to govern yourselves accordingly.
Goods now on hand may be disposed
! of. but no sales may he held after
] Friday, the IS, of October"
Up to o'clock yesterday after
/ noon. 472 patients suffering with
grippe or pneumonia had been
i admitted to the John Marshall
emergency hospital, OF this num-
her twenty were admitted yester-
day. Tnotficially it is said that the
4 number of deaths that have oc-
Cured among patients ut the hos
! pital since ii was opened Monday
/ night a week ago total fourteen.
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