Evening star., 1920-01-29
INFLUENZA WAVE
SEEN SUBS|D|NG
Reports Received Today
Leave Local Officials
! Optimistic.

I Belief of the health department
that the wave of influenza is subsid-
ing in the District was strengthened
/ by reports received today. From
noon yesterday to noon today only
ten deaths were reported, as COM
pared with twelve during the preced-
ing twenty-four hours. The morn
ing's mail brought to the health
Office reports of 2lo new cases. the
same number reported yesterday.
The deaths from influenza during
the twenty-four- hour period ending at
noon were: Willis Watson. eighty-s six.
United States Soldiers Home Hos
pital; Bessie B. d. Clark. twenty-five.
1884 Park place: Lewis De .Chanies
seventy. 21S c street northwest. Fred
erick W. Burch, one year. 223O Cali
sfornia street: Jennie NJ Jones. forty
five. Sc L street; Luigi Pizza- five
months. 1112 sth street southeast;
: Harry Garrett, forty-seven. Provi-
dence Hospital; Ruth E. Roberts. sew
enty-seven. 1405 Girard street; Walter
+. Gore, thirty seven. Garfield Hos
pital, and infant OF John r. and Mar
garet Renee, two days. Providence
Hospital
officials Optimistic.
With a decrease of two in the num-
Der of deaths. no increase in new cases
and fair weather, officials of the health
department were optimistic today.
Unofficial inquiry shows that there
are hundreds of persons confined to
their homes with heavy colds There
is scarcely a large establishment in
the city which has not an unusual
number of employees on the sick roll.
A majority of these cases, however,
are not influenza.
The reports received at the health
department today make total of
1851 cases of influenza and sixty-three
deaths from the disease since Janu-
airy l.
Plnas for COmb ting.
Definite plans for combating the
influenza, should it take the form of
an epidemic. were solved at national
: headquarters, American Red Cross.
To-day. when the committee on cpl
Sdemic and emergency nursing. of the
District Chapter met in Miss Mabel
T. Boardman's Office. The following
official announcement was made as
the result of the conference:
All calls for relief for influenza
involving the attendance of a ply
sician or hospital treatment should
be made to the District health officer,
Main 5000, branch 81.
All calls for nurses should be made
to the Instructive Visiting Nurses
Society, Franklin 6442 or Franklin
63S7.
All graduate or practical nurses.
nurses aids. graduates of home hy-
giene or dietetic classes who are not
caring for the sick now should COM
municate at once with Miss Anna J.
Greenlees, head Of the. nursing de-
partment of the District Chapter,
American Red Cross, 1s Jackson
place. phone Main 1910. for duty. They
will be paid for their services.
Those Attending Meeting.
DR.. A. ]. Mclaughlin. assistant sur
geon general of the public health
service, representing the federal
authorities presided Others present
were Miss Mabel 7. Boardman, ex-
officio member of the committee; Miss
Anna J. Greenlees. representing the
nursing department of the Red Cross
Chapter: Mrs Walter uford. Red
Cross home service section; Miss
Emma S. Jacobs, head teacher of die
tetics in the public schools; Miss A.
j. Bagley, superintendent of the In
structive Visiting Nurses Society;
Clarence A. Aspinwall, representing
the Board of Trade; DIR. Paul B. john
son, director of public health service
department, Potomac division. A. r.
c.. and DIR. W. c. Fowler, District health
officer.