Close Spokane Schools; May Put Back Flu Ban

• Policy: The city board of health closed all public places to children under the age of twelve, starting today at noon• Policy: There is to be no school re-openings in Spokane• Parents are requested to keep children home during the epidemic• The next 24 hours in Spokane will prove crucial, as the number of influenza cases has risen dramatically since the outdoor public Thanksgiving celebration • Policy: The school board of Hillyard has closed all public schools indefinitely• There have been 140 new cases of influenza and two new cases of pneumonia reported to the health department today, a decrease of 24 influenza cases since yesterdays' report• E.E. Engdahl, president of the school board, reports that 20 percent of the student body was absent from school yesterday from either sickness or parental fear• City health commissioner Dr. Anderson reasons, “I do not believe a general quarantine is justified until a ban is placed on the entire state or surrounding communities.”• Anderson believes that by closing the schools, the children can not spread the disease; he does not agree to a general quarantine on the city as beforeNewspaper article1,