Capitol District Reports Few New Epidemic Cases

• Policy (ban on public meetings) to be extended another week; ratification of this order to take place later today• Policy: Modified closing order in effect in the Capitol District• Albany reports 246 new cases of influenza with 13 deaths yesterday • “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” all city officials agree• Situation still serious in Albany where there were thirteen deaths yesterday and hospitals are short-staffed, the beds are full, and cots are being placed in corridors to hold additional patients with influenza • Men and women hospital attendants are answering the call for service by the Albany Red Cross, Albany Guild for Public Health Nursing, and Dr. Harold Goodwin, superintendent of Albany hospital• Every family member of every worker affiliated with the hospital has been pressed for service for the epidemic work• Policy: ban on operations, unless emergency, at Albany hospital• City reports patients have waited up to ten hours for medical attention, in some instances• Physicians are reporting little sleep, with full day and night work ongoing• Reported deaths in Albany yesterday include Bernard Maidman, Harry Strong, Mary Marel, Chronectti Ardini, George Irons, Joseph Partore, Margaret Lennon, Mrs. Jennie Belkin, Emil Kohlrelter, John Van Alstyne, Joseph Sheehy, Mason Monroe, and Joseph Graffo• Attending physician Major E.E. Hinman reports 20 cases among 120 men at the “H” company armory which is under quarantine; 20 cases are isolated among the men• Albany Orphan Asylum reports fourteen new cases of influenza yesterday • 91 of 131 children were confined to bed yesterday at the orphan asylum• Policy: extra precautions are being taken, with sick children isolated/quarantined from healthy children• Superintendent of the asylum, James S. deF. Hallenbeck, is convalescing at the asylum• St. Peter's hospital reports it is at capacity, with four new admissions yesterday; doctors and nurses can not handle more patients at this time, although there is room at the hospital • Homeopathic hospital reports three new cases and reports are in that physicians and nurses are taxed to the limit of endurance• The Women of Albany (society group) assisted St. Peter's and Homeopathic hospitals• Captain Reid of the State College for Teachers military detachment reports no new cases of influenza last nightAlbany Guild reports another busy day yesterday, with the need for volunteers remaining high for home visiting workNewspaper article