New-York tribune., 1918-10-01
Health Department Rec,
ords Show New Terror
of Influenza
Commissioners Calls
Additional Nurses
694 New Cases and 80
Deaths Reported in
48 Hours

New York now faces an epidemic Of
pneumonia. Health Commissioner Cone.
land announced last night that reports Of
the last few weeks, when compared with
the records of past years, force him t,
the conclusion that Spanish influenza
is leading the city into fight against
lobar as we'll as bronchial pneumonia
This, he adds, will be startling news
to the medical fraternity. for ND to II.
present all authe-:ties nave agreed that
the influenza leads only to the bronchial
form. Hitherto the Health Department
in its daily announcement of new cases
of influenza and pneumonia in the city,
has been restricting the latter to
bronchial cases. Hereafter, the Com
missioner says, the reports will include
all cases of pneumonia.
Situation Well in Hand
Commissioner Copeland believes the
reports show the disease to be still we'll
in hand. "While we are holding our
own, we must keep up the fight" he
said last night Zone of our greatest
handicaps, and one which must be over
come, is the lack of nurses to care for
the cases as they develop. We have
been appealed to by the authorities OF
Boston for nursing aid, and we have
been unable to respond.
"Women who would like to lend aid
to the city at this time of need, either
as nurses or as assistants, will be glad
ly welcomed if they will get in touch
with the department. At the Kingston
Avenue and Willard Parker hospitals
L x1lo &c -,ol
taking care of influenza and pneumonia
patients, but we are short of nurses
At the Willard Parker nineteen of the
nursing staff are themselves i'll, two
desperately, with the disease. The
navy yard has promised to send US
! twenty orderlies to assist"
Nothing further of definite nature
has as yet been reported from the
city laboratories in relation to their
investigation of the archaeological
phases of the disease.
Recent Reports
During the forty ightho period
from Saturday morning 694 cases of in
Huenza were reported to the depart
ment in greater New York, with an ad-
ditional nincty-eight cases of pneumo-
MIA of all types. The influenza cases
included 125 men in uniform, eighty
one Of whom were found in Brooklyn
and thirty eight in Richmond.
The deaths in the same period from
influenza totalled thirty with fifty ad-
ditional deaths from lobar pneumonia
and ten from bronchial pneumonia.
Commissioner Copeland states that
sixteen graduate nurses from Flower
Hospital have offered their services to
the city for a period of three weeks
The Commissioner is hoping that this
action nay inspir, other nurses to vol
unteer for the work.
The Public Health Service at Wash
ington announces that the Spanish in
tiuenza has now made its appearance in
thirty six otates and holds a record of
a per cent mortality among its victims.
James Trainor, forty-two years old:
his wife, Rose, thirty years old, and
their three children-Joseph. six years
! old; Rita, two years old, and Marga-
ret, nine months old-were removed
last night from their home, at $50
Eleventh Avenue. to Bellevue Hospital
/ by DR.. Campbell. All were suffering
! from influenza.