New-York tribune., 1920-01-27
Flu Fighters
Expect 5000
Cases To-day
Continued from paEs 1

Eighty-s seventh Street, died yesterda,
OF pneumonia which followed an at
TACK OF Influenza Norris had beer
employed in the department since 1906
and DR.. Copeland said his loss wouIt
be felt keenly.
Six Department Heads Ill
Six heads of city departments wer'
reported i'll yesterday. They arr
Charles l.. Craig, City Comptroller
Francis D. Gallatin, Park Commits
sioner for Manhattan and Richmond
Grover A. Whalen, Commissioner OF
Plant and Structures; Jacob A. Can.
tor, president of the Department
Of Taxes and Assessments, and Frank
Mann, Tenement House Commissioner
Mr.. Berolzheimer is at St. Luke's
Hospital preparing to submit to an
operation. All the others are said to
be suffering from influenza.
Warden John J. Hanley said at the
Iombs last night that seventy one
cases Of influenza had developed among
prisoners. Fiftyone of these cases
are in isolation wards at Bellevue
Twenty milder cases are being treate d
in the institution by DR.. Frank Mcclure,
attached to the prison. If these lat
ter cases fail to respond to treatment
within tWcnty-four hours they will be
removed to Bellevue
Six keepers attached to the prison
also are down with influenza. Warden
uanley himself is recovering from a
slight attack Of the malady.
The total population Of the Tombs
ls 400 men and thirty-six women. All
tne IN lnhucnza patients arc men. DR..
NJ Gu're. has all the prisoners under
observation.
Three parts of the Court of General
Sessions in the Criminal Courts Build
lng felt the epidemic yesterday. Part
II did not function because JUDGE
otto A. Rosalsky is i'll. In Part In
the trial Of Adriano A. Herra. charged
with burglary, scheduled for yesterday
afternoon. was postponed because
Ramon Rodriguez, chief witness for
the prosecution, is in Bellevue Hos
pltal seriously ill.,
The trial of George Lewis, charged
With the murder of Thomas ("Tanner")
smith, was called Off in Part V.
General Sessions, when Robert Moore.
counsel for the defendant, Informed
'udge Wadhama that his client was i'll.
Swann's Force Also Suffers
The District Attorneys office also is
mt by the epidemic. District ATTORNEY
,wann said last night these assistant
'istrlct attorneys had Influenza: Thco
'ore l.: Waugh, John T. Dooling, James
Wallace, Edwin p Kilroc and James
'orrester
here was large gathering of So
IA workers at the Health Department.
+ the afternoon and beginning TO-DAY
All of the activities Of these
enters Will be directed from The
iealth Department Building. sos Pearl
trcet
Offices have been established thnro
or the following: Miss Lillian Wald
! the Henry Street settlement who
5 chairman Of the Nurses Emerccncv
ouncil; Miss Anne Goodrich, Teach
RS College; Miss Elizabeth Grcer
cath Department superintendent ~
lrses; Miss Jane Hitchcock. bureau
information Of the Atlantic
iVsion American Rcd Cross: MISS
"nr flncus. Community Council; Mics
1dc Albaugh. American Red Gross:
Iiss Mary Arnold, Child Welfare As,
)ciatjon.
Their function will be TO conso,;-
at" and coordinate the activities of
10 various volunteer nursing orrani-
't'ons, social settlements and all
her relief agencies" Or. Copcland
planned. There is go much work to be
nc that 1t would be nothing short Of
.imlnal to permit any duplication Of
loTt or lost motion. | can say +,