• Dayton, Ohio: Wilbur Wright Armorers' School at Fairfield was quarantined today due to Spanish influenza.• Not known how many cases, but stringent measures taken by military authorities in order to quell disease or prevent spread.• Personnel with "important Government business" will be the only ones allowed to the field until the quarantine is ended.• Quarantine is for indefinite period, placed on school after reports showing men had the bacteria were received. ; Newspaper article ; 5
• Atlantic City, NJ – many postponed convention meetings will be rescheduled in Atlantic City• Politicians and physicians visiting the resort to recuperate from epidemic ; Newspaper article ; 8
Huge percentage of natives of Society group have succumbed to disease. No organized relief has reached the island. 'The islands are under French control, but the Government officials left several weeks ago and their offices are closed'. ; Newspaper article ; 8
• Reports from new England and military camps indicate improving flu conditions• "The greater individual precaution becomes in practice, the sooner it will be possible to remove the extraordinary general restraints which have been ordered." ; Newspaper article ; 6
• Federal government requested cooperation of Maryland Council of Defense • Sharptown, MD, reporting influenza cases with accompanying fever lasting 7-9 days, instead of 3-4 days• Government telegram reminds reader of depleted medical supplies and sanitary facilities ; Newspaper article ; 8
• Associated Press, Toledo, OH, December 14—• Toledo physicians working in army camps will be released to work in the city treating the approximately 6,000 cases. 42 percent of Toledo physicians are in the military.• 182 cases and seven deaths were reported. ; Newspaper article ; 7
• Shortage of coffins has resulted in postponed funerals in Philadelphia, Camden, and Gloucester• Unnamed casket company official: "The Government has made great demands upon the output of caskets and now the epidemic of influenza has brought an unexpectedly heavy demand. Most manufacturers are working with day and night shifts and we do not believe there is danger of conditions reaching a point that will cause any public hardship."• Funerals in Gloucester taking place within hours of receipt of coffins ; Newspaper article ; 2
• In Gulfport, MS the appearance of Coastal Health Officer Leslie C. Frank and City Health Officer LeBaron before the Commission Council led to two new ordinances being passed in the interest of public health. The first deals with a "step forward in the direction of community sanitation" and the second endeavors to limit a second "flare up" of influenza if public places are re-opened. ; Newspaper article ; 5
• Ayer—"Military officials called attention today to the quarantine issued by the board of health of the town of Ayer against the camp and ordered that it be obeyed. No passes for men to go home over Sunday were issued today."• Newport, RI—Five deaths in Second naval district• Washington—Influenza is prevalent at the Great Lakes station, Boston and Philadelphia stations, and Quantico training camps. • New York—Decrease of influenza cases in NY, in comparison with last two days. Only one death so far. • Buffalo, NY—More than 300 soldiers within the Polish division that are training at Niagara-on-the-Lakes have influenza. • Boulder, CO—12 cases of influenza reported in soldiers' training camp at U of Colorado. No cases are severe. The men are in one of the frat houses. ; Newspaper article ; 6
• Deputy State Commissioner Matthias Nicoll advises the state department of health is now producing a new vaccine against influenza that will be ready for general distribution in two weeks• New vaccine contains cultures from old and recent outbreaks of the influenza bacilli• Vaccine inoculations to be given in the same manner as typhoid fever• Department records indicate there are now 13,655 cases of influenza in the state• Forty-six nurses and fourteen doctors dispatched to thirteen infected centers to help combat the disease• Syracuse has been provided with fourteen nurses and five doctors from the State Dept.• Oswego has been provided with nine nurses• Ithaca and Fulton have been provided with five nurses; Fulton also has two additional doctors• Maybrook has been provided with four nurses• Saratoga and Schuylerville (serious epidemic stage) have been provided with two extra nurses• One doctor has been sent to Maybrook, Schuylerville, Bergen and Hartford• Yesterday, Schenectady appealed to state military census bureau and within five hours was provided a list of names and addresses of every trained nurse between the ages of 20-40, and women with public health nursing experience, Red Cross work, and hospital supplied work ; Newspaper article ; 2
• Columbia: On complaint of Sumter police authorities, W.S. Penn was arrested for representing himself as a physician and for selling influenza "cure" he said the government authorized him to sell; it is alleged he sold his "physic" to negroes in Sumter Co. ; Newspaper article ; 1
• Hamilton County Draft Boards have postponed mailing questionnaires related to military induction of men. It is not possible to conduct physical examinations in all areas because of a shortage of physicians. ; Newspaper article ; 10
