Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-22
FLU WAR NEAR END:
PLACES UNDER BAN
PREPARE TO OPEN
Situation in City and State Shows
Steady Approach TO Normal
Conditions
FOE is STUBBORN ONE

With little OF no change ia the influenza
situation from Yesterday. the o'hiooN
continues bright fer an early reopchih@
nf places which were ordered cIoSoh'
many OF them on octooer = to stamp 'u'
the epidemic, and theatres. moving PIC
ture houses, dance hslls ard other an'iSe-
JnentS, as well as churches ana ntncr
pui lie gathering places. viii resume nor
NAL conditions the last of this week.
This i tho dtcision of the Board at
Health. contingent Only on a continuation
of steady improvement IN health condi-
tions winch reports from every source
and side agree Is being registered IN the
fight against the maladv which has swept
the country. raising the normal dea'r
rate on sn average OF three tunes normal
while in manN cities the fatalities have
far exceeded this rate.
The deaths reported in the past twenty
fonr hours by the Bureau OF Health
numbered Is. ard this is even higher than
The daily average during the last week or
So when the high tide Of the epidemic was
reached New cases are dropping OF
to a marked extent, several hospitals
reporting NJ adpittanCeS tor the past
three or tour days.
CitBHAs 5 NEW CASES.
Five new. eases however, were taken
in at the Country Club in the past twenty
four hours and three deaths have occurred
there in that period with SIX persons dis
charged Despite these appaTani re-
lanses from Improvement, however, here
and there. the situation on the whole Is
vastly better, according 10 Dr, Il. r:
itleuood president ~ the boaru OF
Health
Amusement places have begun the
Fkaz nd Of
Health. confident that hv Saturday or
Monday at the latest, they Will get the
word to throw open their doors 10 the
puhEc. and All are preparing for rush
from throngs whose appctItes for amuse-
ment have been whetted 10 d keen edge
during the long enforced deprivation
The emergency hospital At the New
Century Club is being packed up
preparatory TO abandonment, and the
nIace will be closed to influenza and
pneumonia patients late today or to-
morrow The sick are beng removed
10 other hospitals where now there is
ample room 10 care for them.
1t has been roughly estimated that
the expense Of maintaining the two
emergency hospitals IN Wilmington Will
amount to about $4,000 weekly during
the epidemic
IA e can DeglD 10 bfttth IltotS iltsiS
new, sad DR. .Ellegood 7 ..Aerd from
every side is ptimistic- There seems,
too. TO be no reason to believe that ne
shall be visited by an early return Of the
disease. Another week should see every
thing long way toward normal con
ditionS
No new cases vas the report from
the public institutions IT noon today
the State and County hospitals and
the vorkhousc
Miss Grace T. LIttrell Of Wilmington
died of pneumonia al her father home
in Delaware City, last Saturday. she wa
81 wears old Private funeral services
we're held today at her father home
sTArL REPORTS BRIGHT
Reports from localities which nave
been hard hit by the influenza are now
dail1 becoming So bright that fears
for such places have been dismissed by
State Health Commissioned Wells
We propose 20 lift the closing ben
on . locality just As soon as conditions
/ there and immediately surrounding have
improved 10 an extent TO justify US IN
so doing" said Mr.. Wells There will
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