• First flu death in Philadelphia was male, 89• Almost 300 cases reported in Philadelphia• Chief Surgeon Pickerel of Fourth Naval District’s Hospital, requested hospital accommodations from Dept. of Public Health and Charities Director Krusen, and Krusen made 150 beds available at the Municipal Hospital for Contagious Diseases with an offer of 100 more if necessary• Pickerel reported 250 cases at Naval Hospital and League Island Hospital, but would not estimate total number of cases in military camps• Only new cases will be sent to Municipal Hospital• Krusen does not believe civil population is in danger as long as military patients are “’perfectly isolated’”• “Physicians at the hospital say the germs have much the effect on the system as t...