Flu Passes Old Folk, Children

• The names of but few children and old people appear in the influenza death lists received a the city health office• The majority of deaths are between 20 and 40 and are among people who are considered in the best of health• Dr. John B. Anderson, City Health Officer said “Children and old people stay at home more and are not so exposed as the persons who mingle on the street or in public places”• Six city benevolent and charitable institutions, caring for 285 persons have through care and isolation succeeded in keeping away Spanish influenza• The institutions are: Spokane Children’s Home, St. Josephs’ orphanage; Church Home for Children; Washington Children’s Home Finding Society; Deaconess Old People’s Home; Florence Crittenton Mission• The Salvation Army home for women has not been so fortunate. In the early days of the epidemic visitors were allowed to enter and that is how influenza entered the facility. To date 43 cases have been reported among the 70 plus inmates• At Holy Names Academy, 35 girl boarders and a large staff of sisters have lived since the epidemic began without a single case of influenza appearing• Of 100 patients isolated at Edgewood Sanitarium, not one has become infected with influenza. Nurses are not allowed to leave the premisesNewspaper article