Asks Home Care Of Flu Victims

• Morgan has asked that persons who have contracted the disease arrange to be cared for at home to prevent overcrowding at the hospitals; Morgan explains that this not only relieves the burden on the hospitals, but also helps the patient by making them less susceptible to cross infections• Nurses can be supplied to homes by the Red Cross emergency bureau; nurses are still asked to register• City Hospital has been taking care of patients unable to be cared for at home; currently there are about 75 influenza cases there, where they are in isolation wards• Methodist Hospital has only 2 cases being treated at the hospital, but there are several cases being provided with care at the nurses’ home opposite the hospital, where 3 or 4 nurses are ill; no new cases are being accepted• The Sister Superior at St. Vincent’s Hospital reported that about 25 cases are being cared for there and have been isolated in their own wing; the nursing staff has not suffered badly, though one sister died yesterday, the first to do so• At Fort Harrison, despite improved conditions, the quarantine will likely remain in place for several weeks• 1 death at the State School for the Deaf, but no new cases; 19 influenza patients and 34 pneumonia patients being treated • Still 1 flu patient and 1 pneumonia patient at the Speedway Aviation Depot ; Newspaper article ; 8