The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-10-14
SP ANISH INFLUENZA
SPREADS IN STATE


Richmond, Va, Oct. 13.-So far
as the state at large il concerned. the !
situation growing out of the spread |
of Spanish Influenza is far from en- |
couraging and in some sections condi- |
tons are truly distressing Up To sun
day "a total of 100000 cases had been
reported to the state board of health, !
while 1t was estimated that the total
in the entire commonwealth could
hardly be less than 100000,
No section is being spared and the
disease within the last day or so has
made it's appearance in counties which
seemingly had escaped it. 1t is rag
ing in the southeastern section of Viz
ginia and perhaps is giving more trou-
BILE in southwest Virginia. The north
.ern and eastern sections also are be
ginning 10 suffer from the malady and
1t has likewise reached the Eastern
Shore.
Forty different places have asked
the state board OF health for doctors
and in thirty-five instances these calls
have been favorably answered This
has been accomplished by using the
third and fourth year classes of the
medical colleges of Richmond and the
university. The students are reported
To be doing excellent work and with
out their aid the crisis could hardly
be met. Second year medical stu
dents have also been used to good add
Vantage as attendants. Help has
! likewise been given by Surgeon Gen
eral Blue, who has supplied seven
| physicians from the United States
public health service,
! Calls for nurses have come from
| fifty different places Some commu-
nifiGc IA aSkaH as tar
while others say they will be satisfied
to have only one. In several rural
sections the country people have be-
come. SO alarmed that they decline ts
nuEse those aatYa- @re-siessA- he iit4-
riuenza
! Substantial aid came to the stale
board OF health sunday when Miss
Ella Agnew, chief of the home eco
inomics division of the extension work
of the Virginia Polytechnic institute,
! rendered the use of her county agents,
many of whom have had experience
! in nursing. Some have already been
assigned to fields where their services
will be particularly valuable.
In Wise county mining operations
have been suspended at several points
on account OF the influenza. which is
claiming hundreds of victims despite
the pains taken by the mining corpo-
rations to prevent the spread of the
disease, A total OF 800 cases is re-
ported at Stonega in Wise county and
a like number at Fries in Grayson.
while Norton. Toms Creek and Coe-
burn, as well as Big Stone Gap are in
a serious plight. In Clarke county 40
per cent of the people are Ill at pres
ent or are just recovering from the
grippe.
Southampton county also appears to
have been hard hit. as SEQ cases are
reported at Roykins and 500 at Sedley.
Pulaski has 2.50o cases. Buena Vista
] 900, Roanoke 1,000, Martinsvilie
leo. Clifton Forge 5000, and Dan
willie over 700. OF tthe students at the
University Of Virginia 2s4 are report
ed as having the disease
Every possible effort Is being put
forth by the state board of health to
aid this stricken districts, and it has
found most useful ally in the state
council of defense. A long stride in
the way of che king the malady will
have been taken before the end of this
week when reiicf trains witt bc set
moving in several sections of Virginia
in order that the sick may be carried
to the improvised hospitals established
in school houses at centrally located
points.
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State Taxes Now Due
Treasurer Pace urges all citizens
who are subject to state taxation to
pay now. so that the rush at the end
OF the time may he avoided, Treas
urer Pace and his assistants are ready
to give any assistance necessary in
Strengthening out the tax question,
and he invites all citizens who are
in the dark about their taxes to at
once call at his office, where he will
take pleasure in giving any assistance
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Volunteers for Training
Registrars who wish to volunteer
for training in the military mechani-
cal school at the University of Vr-
ginia may report al cnce to their To-
cal boards. These men are scheduled
for examination for entrance to the
school next week. The local boards
have been called on to furnish men
for this school and they are giving
draft subjects the opportunity Of en-
listing in this branch before being
called Any deficiency will be supplied
through the customary draft machin-
cry. This course affords the men OPP
portunity for study in mechanical
work and specializing in automobile
mechanics
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548 Hun Planes DOwned
London, October 13.--During the
month of September 54s German air.
planes were destroyed on the west
front, It was officially announced to-