Add to ORKG• Surgeon General Blue gave Surgeon Corput, in charge of New Orleans district, the authority to open “additional hospital accommodations for service beneficiaries in New Orleans.”• Drs. Corput and Dowling spoke together on Saturday after receiving the telegram. They will now look into securing sites for the hospital(s). • Influenza will be made a reportable disease at the city board of health’s next monthly meeting, this Wednesday. Every case of the disease treated by a doctor must be reported to the superintendant, Dr. Robin. This should allow the disease to be tracked. • First soldier died from influenza in New Orleans on Sunday.Newspaper article1