Add to ORKG• During the seven days ending October 19, there were 1,691 deaths in Baltimore; deaths during the same period in 1917 equaled 193• Masks should be worn when attending flu patients, preferably made of butter cloth or fine muslin gauze, or ordinary masks “reinforced with a layer of cotton” • Health Department secured 50 more men to dig graves, and satisfactory supply of coffins now being received daily• Only the serum which minimizes pneumonia attacks is recognized as effective by local doctors, and is being administered to all doctors and nurses and government officials• Dr. C. Hampson Jones was made “acting assistant surgeon of the United States Public Health Service for Baltimore city”Newspaper article1