Families Hard Hit By Flu

• Employees at Toledo State Hospital and in nitrates plant now sick, as well as family groups• Five saloonists, 35 patrons held in upper room of Central Police Station, grilled by Schreiber and Wall about buying or selling liquor against orders• Afterwards, saloonists agree to “be good,” and promise to disseminate “the gospel to keep saloons closed during the epidemic.” • Mayor Schreiber: “We told the men that we were not attacking the liquor traffic at all. But we told them that he who violated this health order was worse than a burglar or robber, who only violated the individual, while they were attacking a community.” • Schreiber orders that customers are not to eat ice cream on vendor premises (even on pie ala mode, which initially sparked a complaint), but must carry it away for consumption• 565 additional cases of influenza reported (including part of Saturday’s record)• 22 died over past week• For past 14 days: 2,608 cases, 65 deaths whose determining cause was judged influenza• Epidemic not thought to have yet reached peak• Plan to split city into 30 nursing districts not implemented, as details over differences could not be harmonized• As an alternative, autos will be used to speed up nursing work• Harvey Harlow, embalmer for an undertaker, is ill with flu, and protests to his friends that caskets of the dead dying from influenza and sent to Toledo for burial should not be kept sealed, and not opened• Waggoner issues statement that individuals are responsible for conduct, and that regular habits, refraining from excess, getting fresh air and avoiding dampness and cold are very important• Warns against undue fear and apprehension, sneezing and spitting in public , mingling and overheated, under-ventilated rooms. Says to call doctor and go to bed immediately if sick• Says that pneumonia causes the high death rate, and should be guarded against• “Personal care of patient, keeping him free from chills and drafts, will usually ward off pneumonia. The great danger lies in the fact that persons with influenza do not take it seriously enough. They may remain at home, they may go to work, but they do not call a doctor, as they should.”Newspaper article1,