Hospital, With 15 Nurses Ill, Is Closed To Epidemic Cases

• The Worcester city hospital is closed to influenza patients due to an influenza outbreak among the nurses; the hospital is also filled to capacity and is now under quarantine • Four nurses are dangerously ill with the disease, while twelve other nurses are in varying stages of seriousness• It is said the high number of cases contributed to the nurses' illness; nurses are being worked to the limit and has caused alarm throughout the city• Miss Ethel Lovell and Patrolman Thomas J. Monroe are said to have contracted the disease• It is said that contact with the patients caused the collapse of Thomas J. Monroe; he was taken to his home• There was an 11th death in the hospital; Henry W. Bowman died last night of influenza • Louis L. Laurence died yesterday at city hospital and William J. Deguitis died yesterday morning at the hospitalNewspaper article1,