Mayor's Effort to Remove Ban Without Avail

• Babcock’s request to lift ban is refused after two hour conference with Royer; Babcock reports that Royer fears the conditions in surrounding suburban towns and the influx of people the lifting of the ban would cause in Pittsburgh; Babcock says Royer is hopeful about setting a time to lift the ban in a few days, which will be largely dependent on Dr. Wilmer Batt’s report on conditions in Pittsburgh• Davis announces that new hospital regulations are working and patients applying for admission are being cared for [note: the particulars of the new regulations are left unclear]• Calls for home nurses are being met by new nurses service• New supply of serum will be available through the Red Cross at the end of the week; inoculation will become general• Superintendent of Mails, I.G. Hart reported that the mail service is seriously handicapped due to ill carriers, clerks, and drivers• An emergency hospital is being established in Swissvale that will have 48 rooms, six bathrooms and all hospital facilities• Rev. Dr. Daniel L. Marsh, superintendent o f the Methodist Episcopal Church Union of Pittsburgh, pastor of the Smithfield Street Church, and vice-president of the Pittsburgh Council of Churches, announced that he is opposed to the lifting of the ban closing saloons and places of public amusement; no leading minister is known to approve of rescinding the bans• Strict quarantine seems to be stamping out influenza among the S.A.T.C.Newspaper Article1,