• An estimated 100 doctors are caring for 2,000 cases of influenza• Assigning physicians to certain zones of the city is being considered to prevent “duplication of effort”• Reports received of entire families ill with influenza• Nurse shortage continues• Unnamed physician: “Any clear-headed person is competent to attend to influenza sufferers, so the shortage of nurses will not be felt as keenly as that of the doctors.”• Doctors each caring for 10-25 flu patients in addition to customary patientsNewspaper article1, 1
• Surgeon General Rupert Blue states that spitting thoughtlessly spreads the flu• Streets of Philade...
• Physicians report most deaths among those long ill and the poor who do not have proper medical car...
• Article tells people that they have nothing to worry about, that while hospitals are filled with s...
• City Health Department reports 849 total Richmond cases• Dr. Flannagan says the number of cases is...
• 1 nurse, Miss Magdalena Newmann, has died from influenza and 100 others are sick from caring for p...
• 148 patients are in the influenza hospital• 2 deaths reported at influenza hospital• A shortage of...
• The federal government and other states have issued requests for all available physicians to take ...
• A total of 36 deaths have been attributed to flu between October 1 and October 5, most of which we...
• Dr. Sumner: “The greatest difficulty that we are encountering in our fight against the influenza i...
• Reports from several members of the influenza advisory committee led to a conclusion that there wi...
• Doctors predict that the epidemic will crest by Sunday.• Physicians and nurses are overworked.•...
• Slight increase in influenza, pneumonia cases noted over past few days• King admits that epidemic ...
• Yesterday physicians reported 340 cases of influenza in Richmond; today cases number 425 total• Ca...
• Due the large number of cases at the Emergency Hospital and the limited number of staff, Dr. J. T....
• State Health Commissioner Williams has contracted flu and is confined to his home• Situation serio...
• Surgeon General Rupert Blue states that spitting thoughtlessly spreads the flu• Streets of Philade...
• Physicians report most deaths among those long ill and the poor who do not have proper medical car...
• Article tells people that they have nothing to worry about, that while hospitals are filled with s...
• City Health Department reports 849 total Richmond cases• Dr. Flannagan says the number of cases is...
• 1 nurse, Miss Magdalena Newmann, has died from influenza and 100 others are sick from caring for p...
• 148 patients are in the influenza hospital• 2 deaths reported at influenza hospital• A shortage of...
• The federal government and other states have issued requests for all available physicians to take ...
• A total of 36 deaths have been attributed to flu between October 1 and October 5, most of which we...
• Dr. Sumner: “The greatest difficulty that we are encountering in our fight against the influenza i...
• Reports from several members of the influenza advisory committee led to a conclusion that there wi...
• Doctors predict that the epidemic will crest by Sunday.• Physicians and nurses are overworked.•...
• Slight increase in influenza, pneumonia cases noted over past few days• King admits that epidemic ...
• Yesterday physicians reported 340 cases of influenza in Richmond; today cases number 425 total• Ca...
• Due the large number of cases at the Emergency Hospital and the limited number of staff, Dr. J. T....
• State Health Commissioner Williams has contracted flu and is confined to his home• Situation serio...
• Surgeon General Rupert Blue states that spitting thoughtlessly spreads the flu• Streets of Philade...
• Physicians report most deaths among those long ill and the poor who do not have proper medical car...
• Article tells people that they have nothing to worry about, that while hospitals are filled with s...