Group Of Eight Ill Of Influenza
• "Young Women Occupying the Same Sleeping Apartment Reported Stricken."• The eight women are war workers and were sleeping all in the same room.• The doctor attending them says no amount of care will help stop the disease from spreading until the overcrowding problem is addressed• The doctor who reported the cases: "The afflicted can't be isolated because there is no place in which to isolate them. Every house and every apartment appears to be crowded to the limit, many rooms occupied by a half dozen or more persons."• Thousands are leaving the city because of the epidemic; will not necessarily escape the disease but will be at home with families when it hits• To replace those leaving, the government will have a great expense but some departments are thinking it better to keep certain work out of the capital anyway ; Newspaper article ; 9
