ï~~fNUMONI4A AD.~ t TL UNCHECKED IN CITY AND STATE; SCHOOLS CLQSED SDiseases Continue Ravages and Official Baltimore No Longer Seeks to Minimize ALL SCHOOLS WILL the Situation. CLOSE FOR A WEEK 'MANY INDUSTRIES Board Suspends SessionsBecause HAVE BEEN CRIPPLED of Epidemic. Death Rate Continues High and Number of New Cases Is Not HALF OF PUPILS ARE ABSENT Decreasing-More Drastic Action Likely to Follow Move By School Board-Dr. Blake Still Opposes Closing Thirty Thousand Remain at Home of I usement Places-Great Need for and Teaching Staffs Are Crippled. Overflow and Emergency Hospitals. Janitors and Other Help Reduced ___and Classrooms Frigid-Dr. Blake SITUATION BECOMES WORSE Attends Meeting and Explains His It ham been found no longer politics to attempt to minimise the Opposition-Plan to District City influenza and pneumonia alsituatiqn in Baltimore and Maryland. to Insure Proper Medical Aid. Drastic action has been found the only possible means of coping with the twin diseases, if they are to be checked. Today the public schools will be closed for at least a week. The In view of the disorganised condlparoohlal and private schools are expected to follow suit. ions in the public schools, it was Yesterday's statistics are as follows: decided at a special meeting of the School Board held yesterday after-.t. In Baltimore, 22 deaths from influensa complicated by pneumonia; nool to close all the public schools 7 deaths from pneumonia. New cases. 594. in the city, and the board will meet At Camp Meade. 77 deaths; new cases. 297. again next Monday afternoon and At Fort McHenry, 14 deaths; new cases, 20. decide that If conditions warrantI At Camp Holabird, new cases, 5. opening the schools next week. The 1 Throughout the state, exclusive of Baltimore, there were perhaps private and parochial schools not al10 deaths, and 067 new cases. ready closed, are expected to follow At Fort Howard, new cases 5. suit. Approximate total deaths, 150. Total new cases, 1,59. Superintendent of Schools Chares o J. Koch announced at the meeting that the reports yesterday showed n othat 30,000 children were absent from In view of the utter futility of all efforts to put a check on the in- school, and also 219 teachers. This fluens and pneumonia situation tn Baltimore, and also of the continued number is more than 60 per cent. of ravages of the twin diseases, official Baltimore is no longer seeking to prthe chsentldren attending scthougol at the inimise the gravity of conditons. present tim While it is thought that a large percentage are Ill, many Industries, commercial and other enterprises, are practically paralysed remained away through fear. as one of the results; the death rate continues still very high, and gen- CLASSROOM COLD. erally, the spread of the maladies Is so sweeping as to warrant, at lat, CLASSROOM COLD. -some drastle -aetion-In- preventive M efsiree. It was also pointed out that the or amost In this direction will be the closing of all the public schools Fuel Administrator had issued ortoday for an 1definite period. ders that no fuel should be used beSecondly, the suggestion has been made that the city be districted and tore November L and tbeause of this. physicians alloted so as to Insure the proper care and nursing of patients. There s also a scarcity of firemen S Thirdly, overflow and emergency hospitals may be established, and finally, and engineers in the schools, owing it Is believed, the public places of amusement will come under drastic to the large salaries that are being regulaUtions, or be closed enttirely, paid men of this class by the govern4'-'--- ------ment, and the school offcials have NO INCREASE NOTED. n lte hommeashe NO NCREAE NOTED. nd sohad trouble keepingmen. 'Opinion on th ilatter oveo and also medicine. The service yes- Health Commissioner Blake was Widely.divided that the step probabo terday sent four cases to the Marine invited to appear before the meeting bly Hospital. two of which were suffer- and told in detail why he was opwill not be taken immediately. Ing from severe attacks of pneu- posed to closing theaters and other Ip Baltimore yesterday 594 new monla. Twelve men were treated in public places. In a table of statistics cases werp reported while 23 died the office and these ordered home read to the board, it was shown that from Influenza, complicated by pneu- and told to go immediately to bed. colored people are not, as a rule, subS mona, and with seven deaths from All of the cases were men employed ject to the "flu" and that at School Sthe latter. as tllors on the different ships in No. 1056 only I per cent. of the pupils V'..,Throughout the State of Maryland the harbor. were absent. 541 new cases were called to the at- Having consulted with a number Some of the white schools showed tenion of the State Board of Health of physicians the faculty of Bryn that 63 per cent. of the pupils were and these are divided as follows: Al- Mawr School decided to suspend the absent yesterday, but the average - epny, 112; Anne Arundel, 28;: Balti- sessions of the school until the epi- ran over 60 per cent. Not all the 150; Cadvert, 7; Carroll,. 5; demic has abated. - school commissioners were In favor ores,11; F erck, 7; Howard, Many of the meetin eduled at of closing the schools, and Dr. AlKent, 1:; Montgomery, -:- Talbot, the Y. W. O. A. are postponed, In- bert T. Chambers made a lengthy 85,SOmerset, 4; Washington, 40; eluding the Thutdy night Red statement, in which be agreed with elno, A3 anXWorcester,9 There Cross meeting and the.-Friday night what Dr. Blake had said. about 10 deaths 0fic aly traced Bible class rally. ae flu......... WOULD DISTRICT CITY. rtkallr eevry Industry of the NURSES BADLY NEDED Dr. James M. elevett was not -It the re of paralys Graduate or under-graduate nurses only in favor of closing the schools o their empoyes being &bsent who are willing to. contribute their but went so far as to state that he services In astng the atuthorities thought it would not be a had idea ++"+i.IW.., -----' "'+--- ) -A~lrIlKI ',in ceombatingr with these twin dis- to have the city districted so that U iLtAd $ A E ewa ere red to RPort at one at doctors could be Ied to districts - ri nitetItilWa and Electri the hetduurtere o the Women s and in that way give all persona fll mhipanÂ~ yeported to.) thet city au- Section of the Maryland Council of with the "flu" proper medical attend~Ve sse tt the pub1ic D,at 9 West Saratog street, a*ce,. in..e. t ndedey In thp ca eerv Dr. T. L. Richardson, of this city, It Wa brought out that the schools P'deop iQ* oh0jdwstngr.to the tkct is in charge of recruitinlg.these vol- at prqsent have a good ulupply of idIse!/,~t: eveltiiidK there were 455 At the Mercy Iosital there are col h an dn ad If neearted he C;ntorhien end cond notore' 6ot siok, now ionfind to ibsir tils with the meeting-w~ta presided over by James uslng g total ~of al Siilloyee of this luald~the ithzeutnoll ntirses four w. Chapijan,_Jr.,_president of the,l....aC,...A b4 N4., m 5dtl im. m -n~ + *lhill,, i -.__,- - - -_ ___..i.-...-- ot i..-.. " t A i 1 THIS DOES NOT LOOK LIKE PEACE MEN NEEDED AT ONCE TO MAKE EXPLOSIVE SHELLS. LARGE STOCK DESTROYED roing I. advet Itis eapected that additional drastic Mr. Chapman requested that the.and 100 women to measures wilt be:taken to y, 'and newspapers, through their columns, of the Field Division of the Councill mtaed.tely as sub- thi% ha ivolve places of amuae inform the parents of the publio National Defense Calls Upon -d h... a.the and churches. The authorities school children that it was the desire of.National Defense, Calls Up e7 deat s,w tre=Considering the closing of all sa- of the commissoners that the chil- the Maryland Council to Supply ew caesd 'At Camp ioois,'especaily during the evening, dren be kept away from public places b' aaea inat.the ad orders have again been given to and If they coughed or sneesed, that Men to Make Shells- For This lOta+ee. At the.Mia the street car officials to see that all they hold their hands over their Work 139,000 Men Are Needed vrd a foudd n sary the car windows are kept open and mouths. " l ents ufterin i rom that the p easia ters. do not close The resolution closing the schools Throughout the Country. t13 ic llyiateo - thm. was offered by Mr. Sidney Than- Â~ tbe ba inlmorawlutY R. hauser and there were but few whe - i, wh firh,now "an- NO ROOM; OR PATIENTS* voted to keep.the schools open.,. n- person who has a loft,- voted to keepthe schools open There is no suggestion of peaoi angoraG roomthatNRwilN ALLYDISORGANIZED. In a call issued yesterday by the nywhere from four patiets pwy It was at the suggestion of Super- Maryland Council of Defense y frm.ttilmonla hd whb..is tillng to offer them to intendent Koch that the action of Hon. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary f i'dayfo(m,fthe ityihealth setvice t.ha 6en-re- the board was taken for he showed the Interior, and Chairman of the S ie,wter, questedo - t1f '.pr Blake or -The in a detailed report the disorganised Third Division of the National Cota,. i i.Americ9 i extra spce Dr. conditions in all the achools. cil of. Defense, for a supply of wor% 101n 7 2pecoooLI- BAaOe'FCt evening Is,- badly In explainiag Conditions to the ere for the mnan facture ofexplosiY 1/ 00 L cBRareYfor thoe na board Cr.GBlakesaidthat ha _e E R, 1 0/1 7/2 0 06 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NEWSPAPER R M,. community labor boards emergency." One hundred and thirtysand men am wanted tb the country for this purp. employment service reforr the telegram refers to th States Employment Service JL Smyth, director-genera service, has meud orders to munity labor boards.throu country asking for that n men.o BURR P. HARRISON F CI{EF HARBOR EN Name Bent to City Cquncll Prston---Rent Proite " Hearing Conli.ed Mayor Preston yesterday the Second Branch of the cfl the name of Burr P. Ha epintment. as chief hart nr. Aside from the fact n was at onetm 4 with the engineering- depar the Baltimore and Ohio Rail tie was known of his reoor said to be a Baltimore Dn -qualifed,4for -the posttion.. 'ron 'will.mceeed H Mc( recently reigned the-poet, -No -action was tain,afternoontbytl a Ways ax -Comittetof the City Cou Intcluding the pubue hqa the qnitrpt;ppolteering