The Topeka state journal., 1918-11-27
FLU LID GOES ON /.
AGAIN IN Topeka,
STORES Affected.
NOn-EsSential Public Meetings
Forbidden After Midnight.
Theaters May Garry Out Their
Contracts Already Made.
SHORT HOURS FOR MERCHANTS
Must Not Open Until 8 A. M.
and Close at 1880 p. M.
Thanksgiving Services Called
OFF; Churches To Close.
Theaters May Garry Out Their
Contracts Already Made.
HOURS FOR MERCHANTS
Must Not Open Until 8 A. NJ.
and Close at 1880 p. M.

A partial re-esta blishment of the
recent closing order on account of the
increasing number of new cases of in
1iuenza goes into effect at midnight
The order as issued this morning by
Dr. H. L. Clark city health officer il
as follows:
| Because of the increased number
OF cases OF influenza in Topeka at the
present time, all non-essential meet
lngs and gatherings are hereby forbid
h Hen until iurther notice, this order to
become effective at midnight, Novem-
Der "a, 1918. Exception will be made
, in cases of theaters and banuuete
wnere contracts have been made and
! supplies bought, and where the cam
ceiling OF such affairs without notice
would involve financial loss or the
waste Of food. providing all possible
precautions are observed. To relieve
traff1c congestion at the usual opening
ana closing hours, all dry goods, de-
partment, general and clothing stores
are hereby ordered to open not earlier
than a o'clock in the morning and to
close not later than 4:3O o'clock in
the AFTERNOON, until further notice.
Tomorrow's Affairs Are Off.
! This means that the big union meet
ing of the churches to be held Thanks
| Elylng morning in the auditorium is
postponed until sometime when condi-
tlons are more favorable than at
present. Neither will the churches be
| permitted to hold meetings on Sunday.
according to Commissioner w. L.
Forter, an effort will be made to pro-
nlplt any unnecessary meetings For
| the present theaters may continue to
operate II proper precautions are
by the first of the week to close the
theaters again. According to Porter.
1t Will probably be known by Friday
or Saturday whether or not such q
move is desirable.
Today up to 1880 o'clock the reports
in the office of the public health de-
paftment indicate fifty-three new
cases for the morning There were
ninety-nine cases on Tuesday. Only
a few releases were reported to the
authorities The most optimistic fea-
ture connected with the outbreak of
the disease is that it is of a much
| milder character and even with all the
large number of new cases that have
been reported in the past week there
deaths.
In connectionfwith preventive meas
ures that are to be advocated and
adopted, Doctor Clark wrote the fol-
lowing letter to Albert Patten, man
ager OF the street railway system:
We have been receiving complaints that
windows and ventilators in the street cars
are being Kept tightly closed. Please in
| struct your conductors to see that all Of
the ventilatOrs are kept open excepting
, during a storm. Unless you see that this
is done it will be necessary to limit the
| NUMBER OF passengers to be carried on the
earx earws .ro .on.,,.u,.
stores and offices in an effort to dis
tribute the traffic over n longer period of
| time, and thus relieve the congestion.
III l.. CLARK,
| "Cfty Health Officer"
|! May Play Football.
But there is always something left
for people to he thankful. The foot
ball game scheduled for tomorrow af-
lternoon will be permitted as per ar
rangements. a 1t is held by the auth
critics that even altho there may be
Ia large crowd in attendance it will be
out-of-doors which greatly lessons the
danger concurrent with the gathering
thing to be avoided in checking the
spread of influenza. especially IL the
crowds are in buildings.
A new feature under consideration
by the public health authorities is q
change in the ordering of the early
closing of the stores down town, and
iperhaps a change in the hour of clos-
ling at the Santa Fe offices, in order
that the people may have a chance to
get home without the usual resultant
jam which takes place every evening
. at the regular closing hour. To the
lalready congested uptown districts II
then added the mass of men from the
Santa Fe shops. 1t will be planned.
If the order is finally put into effect,
Ito arrange that these various indus-
tries close their days work at different
hours thus cutting down the usual
lcrowds at certain times of the day.
These measures are being adopted
at once before the threatened cpl
| demic becomes worse and it becomes
necessary to close everything as was
done before. Doctor Clark urges that
all people not feeling well stay home
until they are sure their ailment ID
not influenza 1t is thought that peo-
pie who are not feeling well are not
apt to want to go to the football game
and spend the entire afternoon out In
the cold, but these same people might
decide to go toAa theater feeling that
it would not result in making their
conditions worse.
No School Orders.
No orders are to be issued at pres
ent in regard to the schools as they
; will be closed for the next four days
anyway. possibly longer. The results
T of the next few days will show wheth-
/ er the schools VIII remain closed
longer.
/ No taboo is placed on family
, Thanksgiving dinners or small affafra
/ of similar nature but it is urged that.
. for their own protection. people re-
frain from mixing in unnecessarily
: large gatherings of any kind.
: Altho pany of the meetings slated
! for tomorrow are entirely laudab1o
, says Doctor Clark they are non-essen-
r tial and no loss to any one will result
/. from their postponemenc. However