Conditions Improve

• Continued improvement in the influenza situation in St. Paul and Twin Cities army and navy posts was reported last night• “Again yesterday the number of releases in the Hill district was far in advance of new cases reported. A slight increase in cases was reported from the district surrounding the Aldrich tabernacle, closed last week by health authorities. This was anticipated, according to Dr. Simon”• The general local situation was carefully reviewed at a conference yesterday afternoon at the St. Paul Association• Following a general improvement report no action was taken, this being held in abeyance awaiting a recommendation from the State Board of Health• A decrease in the number of cases at the University • [Minneapolis]• Diplomacy on the part of Chief of Police Lewis Harthill was credited with having averted an open clash between school and health authorities in Minneapolis• Harthill had been ordered by City Health Officer H.M. Guilford to close all schools and arrest any person offering resistance to the order• Dr. Guilford predicted that conditions in Minneapolis would not permit re-opening schools for at least two weeks. He said that the seriousness of the epidemic might keep schools closed for two monthsNewspaper article1