• Determination to be made at noon whether Red Cross will establish temporary flu hospitals in public school buildings, each to hold 150-200 patients• Bird school first to be requisitioned, and equipment used by Red Cross at Camp Dodge to be released for use there• Opening of emergency hospital will allow public health authorities to use regular Red Cross nurses, who cannot work in private homes• 8-10 nurses can care for 50-60 patients• If flu situation improves today, regular hospitals will be able to handle patient load• Pronounced need for nurses and volunteers• School board “did not look with special favor on the plan to turn the Bird school into a hospital unless conditions in the city made it absolutely necessary.”Newspaper article1,
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