Spanish Influenza Rapidly Increasing

• 52 cases of 76 from Oak Cliff• Dr. Carnes asks Mayor Lawther for emergency ordinance making influenza subject to quarantine; Lawther says he will convene Commissioners this morning, and quarantine ordinance adopted• Five nurses at St. Paul Sanitarium isolated due to influenza symptoms, two cases among nurses at Baptist infirmary• Baby Camp quarantined• Love Field still quarantined, command at Camp Dick sprayed daily at infirmary; Earthman thinks spray and detention barracks confinement the only precautions needed• It’s thought by chairman of medical committee of Board of Health yesterday that epidemic is due to atmospheric conditions, general climate change, thinks sporadic cases will erupt during winter, and that it’s no different than the epidemic 15 years ago of “breakbone fever”• Dr. G.A. Spivey of Emergency Hospital thinks city has been informally quarantined as it is, and urges people to stay away from crowded districts, first victim was Pierpont Balderson, 15, from pneumonia. • Carnes says announcement that Emergency Hospital has serum is a mistaken impression, “Serum used for treatment of influenza is well known and could be had at local druggists, but most people use other remedies.”Newspaper article1