Smaller Trolley Load for Epidemic Planned

Schools will remain closed, churches will be restricted to one-fourth of their capacity and a “definite ban” will be forced on all large gatherings• For 30 minutes of the meeting the opening of the schools “hung in the balance.” Superintendent B.B. Jackson C.W. Jarvis, School Director of Hygiene, and C.E. Purdy, School Board Member appealed for reopening the schools • The school opening advocates maintained that the public school organization presented an effective means of keeping the school children under supervision• It was decided, though, that 31 school nurses were not enough to cope with an epidemic with presented such contagion• The Reverend Stanley B. Roberts, representing the Presbyterian churches, and Rev. E.M. Schmuck, representing the Episcopal congregations appealed to the health department for a definite statement on the status of the churches• City Health Commissioner H.M. Guilford said that churches can hold services under the same provision as last Sunday. He added that everything possible would be done to prevent large gatherings• [Military]• One death occurred yesterday at the City Hospital and one in the military hospital at the Air Service Mechanic’s School at Midway• Officers at the Mechanic’s School reported 12 cases for the week, with no new influenza cases and only three pneumonia cases reported there during the last three days• 3 new cases were taken to Fort Snelling yesterday• [Statewide]• Nearly 19,000 cases have been reported to the State Board of Health since the epidemic broke out a month ago• 450 new cases were reported to the State Board yesterdayNewspaper article1