Will Shut Shops In South Phila. To Fight Influenza

• ‘“Flu” Cuts Coal Output 12,000 Tons Daily”• 150 shopkeepers will voluntarily close their stores in response to the 8,000 cases of influenza in South Philadelphia• Business men and employees will instead distribute food and aid throughout section of city• Influenza caused 304 of 428 deaths, pneumonia 124• Krusen stated that closing order would not be lifted through next week• Emergency Hospitals No. 4 (for children) and No. 5 opened• Prisoners cannot dig graves due to lack of guards, and Coroner Knight will meet with Mayor to discuss use of city laborers• “In some places, bodies have lain without attention for as many as four days.”• University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry first department to cancel classes because of flu• Ordinance Department instates two 15-minutes breaks as “breathing time” for flu prevention• Health records show this epidemic to be worst in city’s history with a death rate of 35 per thousand compared to the 1889 epidemic’s death rate of 20.45• Women who volunteer without nursing experience will prepare food, feed patients, do laundry, and answer phones• Dr. Royer estimates 200,000 case in Pennsylvania• Rev. Kieran of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, opened emergency hospital in the Parish Hall to be staffed by Sisters of St. Joseph• University’s School of Social Service volunteered as nurses’ aides• YWCA making flu masks and bedside bags• Seminary students volunteered for grave digging at Holy Cross CemeteryNewspaper article1,