Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-10-08
NEW FLU CASES NOT
ALARMING, HEALTH
OFFICIALS ASSERT
Are IN Homes Already Afflicted
and Not in Other
Locations.
NEW CASTLE BADLY OFF

-. ,ban NJ any time since the cpidem-
i ,naf,onza struck this city and country,
sa,J DR. II T.. Fllegood. president Of
the BOARD OF Health today lie SAID
that the health officials had gottcn
matters pretty well organized, and that
II the public would execisc discretion
and caution. that conditions would mn
prove rapidly from this time on.
There were quite number OF ne"
eases reported today, hut tins Is not
As alarming as It sounds The new cases
were in the homes of those that already
had members III from the grip, the disease
having been spread from the afflicted TO
the well o IS.
No new localities and few new homes
rcportcd additional cases. Although sorclY
needing nurses, physicians AMI heV"iS'
the, situation at most Oi the emergency
hospital units was encouraging. Ih'if
were few deaths reported. III comparison
with the hundreds that are III with the
influenza and pneumonia
The chief danger now appears 20 h'
persons who have been H. exposing
themselves too quickly aud prematurciy
rhov run grave danger of having pneu-
monia. and as there Is greater care needed
IN nursing this disease. those who nave
been III are cautioned not &c expose
themselves unnecessarily
pR. LAYTON NuIJNTFLR~
The Board Of Health has accepted
the services " Or Caleb V Layton
~ Georgetown IN the treatment ot
influenza cases DR. Layton has tom
norarilv lift Indian Head. Md. where
he IS emDlovosI hv the du pont Co. and,
thinking Georgetown would spare ono
of its numerous physicians during the
prevalence oi flu, CAME TO Wilmington
last night and volunteered his srrv-
ices. which wprs, Immediately accepted
DR. LAYTON Is the Republican nominee
Cor Representative m Congress
RICHARD s. TRUIrT Ill
Richard ;. Trntt Of Milford. who went
b. Camp lee Va. a month ago to ta-Ne.
sn officers training course, Is suffering
from pneumonia, but Improvement ~
bis condition was reported Yesterday
Mir Tr1ntt Is nephew of IL, Rodney
ksarp Of the du Point Go
County Comptroller Edwin 9. Clark
~rnt 10 his office today, after being
confined to his home Tor n week by IN
fuenza.
Miss Reitta Emerson, executive sec
petarv Of the Wosnan's Christian Tenn
rerance Union, IS seriously III at tho
county headquarters, l0l4 Washingto7
street Miss Emerson's illness IS due
% the influenza and while her comb
lion has caused some alarm among
her many friends. she was reported
resting easv at a late hour last night,
NV cAsrLr II BAD w,v.
{ TT. Wells, state health expert today
received a call for help from New Castle
The cit> has bat three doctors, IT was
stated. and ono Of these Is I'll, and that
leaves the two physicians 10 attend 70
j75. patients.
The call Tor help. Was IN response 10 the
letter Mr. Wells sent ont TO all Boards Of
Health IN the State. asking the condition
Of their town and If they needed anything
that the State Council Of Defense could
supply.
Mr.. Wells communicated with DR..
Elleoood. and the latter is going 10 Try
and arrange to send one physician 20
New Castle. 10 help ont there Yesterday
one of the emergency, hospitals ran short
III aspirin tablets. and Mr.. Wells ~
nediatelv rounded up several hundred
tablets. and is arranging to Obtain supply
50 that there will be sufficient for the need
Of the city.
Cemeteries reported today, that they
had sufficient labor to dig graves and
ito other work needed ST this time.
The Lynch Construction Company,
again came to the aid Of the city today,
supplying two nurses
Other charges made by Senator Jones
against the hquor interests included
Employment of men TO dominate labor
organizations, attempts indirectly 10
suhsidize newspapers, magazines and other
periodicals: payment OF Texas voters
poII taxes. and institution Of boycotts
against merchants manufacturers rai-
roads and business men opposed to the
liquor traffic
" II Story Of New York died in
a Wilmington hotel last night. while
on n business trip 70 this city Death
resulted from pneumonla Mr Story
was Il representative Of the Foundation
Co Of New York.
The wife and son Of Levy Court Com
missioner Thomas : touracrc OF Mid
dletovn are suffering from influenza
\ meeting Of the New Century Club
was 10 have been helI this week ha,
been poStponei because Of the infiucuza
Thomas Mccormick 81 CO. Last
sixth street, who died yesterday ~as
buried from his residence nj 80 q clock
today
The grip caused the postponement Of
the meeting which was to have been held
If the knights OF Columbus Hall to-
night, for the purpose Of organizing the
Catholic parishes and societies for CO
operation with the united war
work campaign In November The date
of the meeting will be announced later
on,
NURSE DIES or ''eL'''
Miss GwenlIan Carnes, only daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. William Carncs,
formerly OF the Belvcdcre Apartments
Wilmington, died in Philadelphia on
Sunday from pneumonia. Miss Carnes
was in the second year Of her course Of
training as a nurse at the Presbyterian
Hospital. and had been nursing influ-
enza patients She contracted thc dis
ease. which developed into pncumonia,
and died after few days illness.
Mis-, Carnes was born in England,
but had spent the greater part Of her
life in Wilmington. She received her
education at Friends School. Her sud
den death, in the prime Of her young
womanhood comes as & shock to her
many friends in this city.
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