Stores To Close To Aid Control Of Influenza

• “Merchants Join With City Officials in Giving All Help Possible in Work.”• McBride signs order limited hours of retail and wholesale establishments as well manufacturing plants which can be open from 10AM to 3PM and being closed entirely on Saturdays – the order excepts all physician offices and any office engaged in war work• Mayor Hanson released data showing Seattle fared better than many big cities in the epidemic so far and in its 5th week, the epidemic should go into a permanent decline• The order on the stores is not because stores are overcrowded but an effort to control congestion on streets and in street cars• Text from proclamation: “People should exercise due care in relation to ordinary health rules. The open air in your own neighborhood is a good place to spend your time. Downtown, with its bad air is a bad place. It is a good time for Seattle people to once more learn the art of walking instead of riding on jitneys or motor cars.”• 127 cases/13 deathsNewspaper article1,