83 Deaths In Day From Influenza

• “Increased Number of Fatal Terminations, While New Cases Fall Off.”• “No Curb Yet in Scourge”• 819 new cases• 14,730 cases of influenza total; Dr. Fowler confident not all cases have been reported. He estimates as many as 25,000 cases have been in DC• Commissioner Brownlow: “The epidemic situation is most serious. Every citizen should do everything in his power to co-operate with the health authorities to prevent further spread of the disease. No one should become panicky, but, on the other hand, no one should fail to realize the actual danger.”• Brownlow advises wearing masks; believes it would help check the spread of the disease• The wearing of masks may become general as Mustard also has made it know the Red Cross will supply masks to the population; lines for masks outside of Red Cross headquarters are long• Dentists, barbers and elevator operators are wearing masks; women war workers can be seen wearing them on street cars and at their desks• Many departments have ceased to bring new workers into the city for the duration of the epidemic• The United States Fuel Administration has also cancelled all appointments with people from out of town at the request of the public health service; they will ventilate their building two times a day• The new emergency hospital at 18th and Virginia is open will have a capacity of 500 patients; 50 soldiers from Camp Meade are detailed to put the hospital into shape• The city’s emergency zone units still need nurses and women volunteers to help answer calls for aid• The Red Cross emergency station has moved to 14th and F; asking for nurses, women volunteers, and clerks• The Red Cross emergency station received calls for 32 women to help last night and could not supply them; 444 women have come to volunteer there up to noon todayNewspaper article1