Hamlin Put In Charge Of Flu Epidemic

• 20 women in city prison who were declared not to have flu now employed as nurses for city health department• City Health Officer Dr. Daniel Crosby will assign women where they are most needed• Libraries are closed to public for the rest of the flu scare, but staff will continue to work for the present• Schools were closed by mayoral order, but offices will remain open two hours a day• Health department clerks wearing regulation masks saturated in antiseptic solution• Flu depleting ranks of telephone operators and army student mechanics at Oakland Technical high school• Red Cross appeals for volunteers to make masks and pneumonia jackets• Woman’s army called to help Red Cross pass out flu prevention information cardsNewspaper article1,