192 New Cases Of Influenza In Day Indicate Spread

• Starkloff warns that influenza is on the increase despite the precautions taken• 356 cases reported up to this morning, and increase of 192 in 24 hours• Reporting is still voluntary, which means the numbers are probably much higher, according to Starkloff• Factories and mercantile businesses were asked by Starkloff to have physicians examine employees and customers for symptoms• Director of Public Welfare Schmoll asked factory owners to have company physician examine employees and send home those that are ill• Physicians stationed at police stations to monitor the situation; they will give free treatment to the poor• Theater owners and other business owners planned on meeting to help “stamp out influenza,” but the meeting was prohibited under the closure order/meeting ban• A delegation of church leaders (clerical and lay) pledged themselves to aid in carrying out the mayor’s orders• Red Cross dressing shops will remain open, but those who are ill will not be permitted to work• The closure order generally has been observed, with only two minor violations reported• Largest number of cases from one section of the city was from 6th Sanitary District – 13 cases reported there• Chamber of Commerce has sent notice to employers of war work labor that they should send home every case of the cold or sniffles; the notice warns that the Health Commissioner has the authority to close any industry, even if it is involved in war work• Tuberculosis Society will aid in fight against fluNewspaper article1,