Doctors Work Night And Day Caring For Influenza Cases; 1 Nurse Dead; 100 Others Ill

• 1 nurse, Miss Magdalena Newmann, has died from influenza and 100 others are sick from caring for patients in Syracuse hospitals.• The medical staff of four local hospitals have been working around the clock. Within the past three days, doctors at Crouse-Irving are getting about one hour of sleep at night.• 32 nurses at Crouse-Irving have gotten sick. • There were 25 victims at another hospital within the past 48 hours.• Graduate nurses have been asked to help, in addition to Red Cross nurses.• This effort has been insufficient, however, and volunteer nurses have been asked to help.• Major Thompson has sent orderlies to local hospitals to work in the kitchens and laundry rooms, and sometimes wards.• “The men have been especially useful in caring for delirious patients, as assistants to the nurses.”• The Lipe memorial wing of the Crouse-Irving Hospital is filled with soldiers, as well as two floors of the main building. • The hospital capacity is 200 beds, but there were 300 beds in the building yesterday. • Private patients often have to share their rooms with soldiers.• Doctors have abandoned private practice, and no surgeries have been performed that could be postponed. • At the Hospital of the Good Shepherd, children are being turned away, and the children’s flor has been converted into a soldier patient ward.• Other rooms have been filled with cots.• The Homeopathic Hospital had 87 patients from the camp by noon yesterday.• 10 more patients were sent there yesterday afternoon, and 7 in the evening.• There are 85 soldiers at St. Joseph’s hospital, which is the smallest hospital, thus this is creating problems. • The Red Cross has responded immediately, sending sheets, blankets, etc. • There are not enough Red Cross nurses to provide relief for the nurses who are being overworked.• Requests have been made for civilian aid, as well as fruit, delicacies, magazines, and flowers to comfort the soldiers away from home.• Various companies are making donations and raising money for the effort.• Two soldiers from Syracuse died yesterday from influenza.Newspaper article6, 1