Seek Emergency Hospital Plant for Flu Victims

• Dr. J.E. Drake, school physician, was named charge in head of identifying a large building for use as a temporary emergency hospital in case of greater demands on present hospital accommodations for flu patients• It is said that every hospital in the city is filled to capacity at this time• Last night there were five cases of influenza reported to health authorities, with an estimated total of 220 in the city at this time• According to health officer Anderson, there is one unreported case for every reported case of influenza• Miss Vera Wood died yesterday of pneumonia• Miss Flora Lewis Logan died last night of pneumonia, thought to have developed from influenza contracted in Montana• The Red Cross has mobilized all available nurses and women with nursing training to meet district demands• All health officers have been called to report in cases immediately• All physicians have been asked to make daily reports of cases to the health department• It is said that quarantine is not an effective method of prevention, and therefore, the health authorities do not recommend it • The Spokane Medical Society meeting has been called off tonight due to the policy ban on meetings, and will not meet again until the epidemic is overcome• Policy: Takoma schools are closed today and furthermore, indefinitely, until the epidemic is passed• There have been fifty cases of influenza reported in Vancouver, Wa.City and military health official met last night to secure a building to be used as a temporary hospital; it is not thought that influenza has a stronghold in the barracksNewspaper article1,