New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

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Totals ........ s.277 1856 1872 1913
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demic ........ 5113 317 $50 als
The severity of the epidemic is little
more than half that of the visitation of
1918, according to Commissioner Cope
land 1.-THE death rate in 1918 was
about 40 per cent higher than our fig
ures show at present." he said, "and
unless weather conditions interfere
with the favorable progress we have
made | feel safe in saying that we will
reach the peak Of the epidemic at the
end of this week. From then on, bar
ring, of course, bad weather conditions,
feel there will be steady decline
in every evidence of epidemic condi-
tions."
The satisfactory situation, DR.. Cope
land added. had made him decide to
continue the weeks course of nstruc-
tlon Tor attendants only for the re-
malnder Of this week and next week
tie SAID there was common misun-
derstanding, which he wished to cor
rect, that the Department Of Health's
emergency training made those who at
tended full fedged nurses and that the
Nurses Emergency Council had spon-
sored the idea. The Commissioner said
hot l., i
to do with it, but that the persons who
took the course would not be nurses in
any sense-merey Y attendants who re-
celvet instructions that would make
them helpful to physicians and nurses
during the emergency. He declared
that the Nurses Emergency Council is
composed of the most efficient women
in the nursing profession, and that wom-
en- who took the weeks course could
not rightfully assume the name of
"nurse."
Requests for nurses yesterday num-
bered ninetythree, and sxty-seven
were supplied A total of twenty-six
registered, five of whom were graduate
nurses.
Menace in Street Conditions
1t became known that the Health
Commissioner had written to Mayor
Hyland and to Arnold b. MacStay,
Street Cleaning Commissioner, on
tuesday concerning the condition of
the streets. which he regards as dan
gerous. He requested the Mayor to see
that the Street Cleaning Commissioner
the streets. The letter to Commits
sloner MacStay said in part:
Repeated complaints are coming to
thus Office regarding the unsanitary con-
ultlon or the streets. Garbage is piled
up' ashes are accumulating. the cross
lngs are wet and the health Of the peo-
pie is seriously impaired by the present
condition Of affairs. must appeal TO
you in the name of public health to
exercise not the usual methods of con-
trol but extraordinary methods that are
demanded by reason of the epidemic"
complaints that smoking was hermit
ted in the Winter Garden and in the
boxes at the Century Theater led Dr..
copeland to communicate with ]. J
Snubert, of the Winter Garden. and
with Morris Gest, manager Of the Cen
tury They agreed to put q stop TO
the practice, which was being carried
o'l, they said, without their KNOWLEDGE.
Dr. Frank j. Monaghan, sanitary su-
perintendent of the Board of Health.
announced that motion picture thea
t1i coHuucleO oy Cne Consolidated
amusement = Company, at 3O2 West
Forty y-second Street, had been closed
because of lack of cleanliness and poor
ventilation. The theater has been
rlacarded "Closed by the Board Of
Health"
The war against sptters and per
sons who smoke in the subways pro
ceeds, and the department is investi-.,
eating complaints made by tenants that
ma deauate heat is being furnished. /
Auch complaints Investigated yesterday
ters and smokers received summonses.
The bad Spring Make Union, af-
hliateo with the American rul::c-r Ion
OF Labor. announced that union labels
We're no longer being supplied for old
oed springs because Of the possible
danger. of spreading disease through
the sale Of such house furnishing ma
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