Churches Of City Asked To Curtail Rites

• “Inroads of Spanish Influenza Also Cause Health Officials to Fix Rules for Cabarets and Halls”• “Hours of Big Stores Modified, Theatrical Managers Prepare to Eject Expectorators at Shows”• Churches asked to keep services as brief as possible; cabarets and dance halls are to comply with health board requests• Department store hours are changed to 9:45AM-6:15PM; all department stores show their support and cooperation with new hours• Theater managers are also cooperating and working to make sure patrons know the new rules and also are to ask any patrons to leave who exhibit signs of sickness• 2.070 new cases reported: Manhattan 996, Bronx 294, Brooklyn 579, Queens 59, Richmond 142 • 61 deaths: Manhattan 15, Bronx 13, Brooklyn 27, Queens 4, Richmond 2• A serious epidemic in New York with its population would need to have more than 1,000,000 cases; so far only 8,000 cases are reported• Schools will remain open; churches to be as short as possible and to announce to use a handkerchief when coughing; also any child in Sunday School showing signs of illness is to be sent home• Home quarantine is in effect by physicians• The new vaccine has been distributed to private physicians in the city; they hope to supply it outside New York in a few days• Serious shortage of nurses still a problemNewspaper articleL-