Stores Will Close Early This Week

• Mayor Baker issued new orders Saturday night regulating business hours to relieve congestion in streetcars; wholesale and retail stores open at 9 am and close at 3:30 pm, while employees in all offices are to be released at 4 pm; the rules are not applicable to the sale of food, drugs, laundries, or businesses essential to war work; office employees do not include janitors, elevator operators, or those employed in providing medical care; the order, quoted in full by the Daily Journal, is to be effective Monday, Nov. 4• Baker, in providing the rationale behind the new order: “In other words, it will save lives, prevent suffering and lessen the economic hardship if all of us for a short time do our utmost to stamp out this epidemic than to use only halfway measures extending over a long period of time…It is not merely a local problem; it is a national question, and as in the past we must work shoulder to shoulder in our mutual interests.”• Further health orders promulgated by the conference, as quoted by the Daily Journal, include the avoidance of crowding at cafeterias by requiring 4 feet between individuals, the protection of exposed food for consumption, the allowance of only one masked family member to wait on a patient and the screening off of patients in homes by means of sheets; other regulations repeated• Six new patients at The Auditorium; 75 total deaths there to dateNewspaper article1, 1