County Schools Are Closed To Curb Influenza

• Surgeon General Blue to send eight more physicians to Nashville• Cities urged to close schools, public gathering places, and to cancel public meetings• Decision made by Supt. Of Schools and medical inspectors not to close the city schools• County schools close due to distances to be traveled by physicians between patients• Initial cases of flu epidemic in Nashville purported to be more severe than later spread• Dr. Hibbett reports flu situation to be improving• Flu order issued closing pool halls, carnivals, and other places of amusement• Businesses such as pool halls face high payments for rent and other essentials, and as a result may be forced out of business if closing order lasts too long• Dr. Hibbett believes that best prevention of the disease are small, common sense precautions• “Propagandists” were arrested in East Nashville in order to stop rumors that the epidemic was actually a plague of the black deathNewspaper article1, 1