Add to ORKG• “Police Officers Are Ordered by Chief to Arrest All Without Gauze Protectors Properly Worn”• “Hassler Says Epidemic Will Decline With Compulsory Protection; Mortality Rate Decreases”• 490 cases/16 deaths• Police have orders to arrest anyone without a mask starting today• Hassler: “With the compulsory wearing of the masks tomorrow I think we can safely predict that the duration of the epidemic will be short lived.”• Wet and rainy weather is not helping in the fight against influenza; Board of Health hoping the wearing of masks will offset the disadvantageNewspaper article