Epidemic Cost City $10,500

• Dr. Fuller reports to Municipal Hospitals trustees that the epidemic has cost the city $10,500 “a considerable portion of which was spent for equipment such as beds, bedding, etc.• “The report was highly acceptable to the trustees as showing that the situation has been excellently handled in this city.”• Statistics of hospital patients:• Admitted: 417; discharged: 295; died 122; avg number patients daily: 44; mortality: 29%• On admitting cases: “It was very evident from the early days of the epidemic that it would be a physical impossibility to supply hospital accommodations for all cases; therefore, some method of admitting had to be adhered to which would accomplish the greatest good for the greatest number. Many times requests for the admission of entire families would be made by physicians and if granted service would have been limited to very few households, so I finally decided to admit only pneumonia and very bad cases of influenza.”Newspaper article1,