Seven Die Of Spanish Influenza

• 7 deaths reported to Health Dept. yesterday, 29 deaths since last Saturday in Cincinnati• Yesterday, 85 cases reported to Health Dept., Officer Peters said he doubted all of them were new.• 40 civilian cases, 14 soldier cases admitted to GH• Major Percy: 120 soldier cases at GH, 83 at Music Hall (these cases “mild”)• 20 cases at GH have pneumonia• No “accurate figures” on total in Cincinnati, Peters estimates 4,000-4,500, “with many in the convalescent stage.”• Last night, Peters and Percy suggested that the disease “had been checked, but authorities have not relaxed their vigilance in enforcing stern measures to check it completely.”• Dr. List: 13 convalescent soldiers removed from GH, 15 more transferred to convalescent ward at univ. barracks by Major Percy• Dr. List: The number of discharged patients will increase each day from now on.• Dr. list finished preparing the County Infirmary as emergency hospital.• Norwood, St. Bernard, other area patients transferred there last night.• 2 interns, 6 nurses, 7 med students sent to the County Infirmary yesterday afternoon, 4 more visiting physicians went there this morning.• GH overflow  Infirmary if necessary• Reports to Peters “caused concern”: outbreak among soldier students at St. Xavier College (40 cases at Fenwick Club, treated at Club infirmary), also civilian students at Univ. Cincinnati. • Board of Health rejected all inquiries into opening any public places.• The length of the order is unknown, Dr. Peters suggested it may be three weeks, but will remain “until all danger of an epidemic had passed.”• Director of Street Railroads W. C. Culkins ordered the Cincinnati Traction Company to sprinkle streets between tracks, as requested by the Board of Health.• Street Cleaning Dept and firemen began flushing streets in Cincinnati yesterday.• Board of Health set up four anti-influenza stations yesterday “for the examination and treatment of new cases.”• Report “against alleged ‘abominable conditions’ among foreign-born residents in the West End, due to overcrowded sleeping rooms” filed with Peters.• “Dr. Peters said health authorities have no power to remedy such conditions under present regulations.”Newspaper article