Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-06
REPORT FIVE MORE DEATHS
FLU EPIDEMIC CONTINUES
UNDATED; 1872 NEW CASES
Henlth Officials Face Problem Of Open
Ing Hospital without Sufficient
stan OF Nurses.

Five deaths was The toll Of the in
h nss epidemie here yestsrda,E: with
City Bureau OF Health, TWO deaths
from pneumonia were also recorded
This brings the tota! deaths from in
duenza during the p.demic 10 twenty
three and the total number OF reported
cases TO +,il2
Probability that the ci;y will have
care Of iiu victims was increased yes
vacsu; beds ~ the Virginia Hospital
last night ana the number Of Colorcd
patients a. the emergency hospital At
Fourth ana Clay Street had grown 10
~. { Levy, Director. OF Public
esse &c ;ieaal Gospiis, SPACE 6 St ie
imperative ;he c!iy Home would be
openrd - tu patients, There are Two
~Srds available there Tor naIentS.
Face Shortage OF Nurses.
Conditions Wi. be practically the
same whether another hospita, is
opened o. ao-. unless more nurses
nigga; he s..l the shortage ~
nurses constitutes " serious problem
he S2id ,hNi lAr5e hospital -
possible 10 get nurses enough 10 At
tenn - the patients.
E>trems.y htd weather VIII prob
a0iN swell lie number O.: influenza
cases ~ M hishts. RECORD set. .e-
corded II Ma, predicted LAST night.
5as fy5s. SD 81 s rs 29
within the seeG The high pninJ OF
;he epidemic was thought PASSED On
reported WAS 4o5 health officials
pointed out yesterday. AFTER this
late Ia. he reP9ortS hss;aan 10 get smaller
set in again.
Death RAT. Is Lowest
Death rate ,reports Eeeeiyed b. the
Department; OF fub.ic Welfare yester-
a srnv "a. - t-. -
a the "ou nS SHOW o. IN Nat TESi Sss
death rate during the week ending
January 81 whicn WAS the worst Of
ported from any city. If the death rate
tor tho week WAS the average weekly
rate for the yesr. the report would
show the annual death rate here As
"a per Loco population. II was
stated.
the same period a. 1914 per 1000, or
nearly twice that or Richmond. The
rate in New York was IS ner LOCO. N
Dayton Si.3 per 900. in Kansas City
2S.h. Milwaukee cSl and st. Louis 81 Is.
Although these rates do not apply
out by health oiiic;als that they show
that deaths throughout the country
have been hiEh and this is attributed
10 the epidemic OF influenza.
Many Cns-~ in state.
Reports o: cases which have been
received by the. state health Com
state The number OF CASES ses renort" ed
yesterday from the various larger
cities show Roanoke. @O5 new cases:
Norfolk. 355 new eases and four deaths
Danville. forty-etsht new cases; Ports
mouth. ninety nine: Alexandria. seven:
Charlottesville. forty-s,N: Newport
News. 344 new cases and three deaths
The total number OF deaths reported
to the State Health Department from
various parts of the State on Wed
nesday was twenty five. Incomplete
reports made il Impossible to make
up the record for yesterday until re-
turns come in today The United
states Public Health Service rcDorts
6SS new cases for Virginia up to Wed
nesday OF this week
AT the DumfrieS convict camp In
Prince william County, thirty out az
the thtrty-nine convicts arc down with
the influenza, according 10 a report
received by DR.. Williams Yesterday.