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THE MORNING .OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1918. IS TO CLOSE UP CITY Officials Confer to Combat Spanish Influenza. ALL THEATERS UNDER BAN .Crowding in Streetcars, Stores and Streets Discouraged in Iroc lamation by Executive. (Continued From First Fage. ping until the present Influenza epi demic has subsided. Signed. Robert E. L. Holt, State Health Officer.' Order Will Be Enforced. "In substantiation of the foregoing brder I have as Mayor consulted with the Governor of the state and he has asked compliance. Also I have con sulted with Dr. A. C. Seely, president or me fetate Board of Health, and he has said the order ehould and must be obeyed. "Report of the City Health Depart ment shows 50 cases of the disease in the city of Portland. Dr. Parrish, City Health Officer, admits the presence of at least 60 cases additional. Dr. Holt, State Health Officer, places the num ber at 200 at least. The disease is one which has swept the United States and the drastic step now ordered in Port land already has been taken in large cities throughout the country, includ ing Seattle and Tacoma. The order of the State Health Board covers every city and county In the state of Oregon, several cities already having: been Closed. Government Sanction Order. "The length of time this order is to te enforced rests with the State Board of Health, which has absolute authority to enforce this order in the city of Portland and elsewhere in the state. Upon order of the State Health Board the closing ban will be lifted. "Portland is required under this order to comply and, failing so to do, would, according to official advices, be so closed by the Government if the city ehould fail to do so. "In outlining the scope of the clos ing order I have taken the advice of the State Health Office and the City Health Office. The people of the city of Portland are urged to co-operate in this movement, which has been made as a safeguard against a virulent disease, which is sweeping the country, which has swept other countries and which, in the judgment of health officials in charge of the situation, will be checked very materially by the elimination to the greatest extent possible of assem blages of the public. "The contents of this order, the scope of the closing and the information set forth herein have been checked by Dr. Holt, State Health Officer, and have been approved and ordered enforced." The decision to close came only after three hours of discussion and a com plete survey of the local situation by ilayor Baker, City Health Officer Par- risn, Mate tieaiin cincer .non ana san itary Inspector Langley of the Ship ping Board. About 60 cases of Spanish influenza. most of them in the early stages, have been reported to the City Health Office, according to Dr. Parrish, who estimates thi number in the city at 100. These figures, a big increase over actual and suspected cases the day before, influ enced the Mayor in his decision to issue the proclamation. Other Coast Cities Alert. The fact that Portland has the start by three or four days on other cities of the Coast and other sections that have taken this action was urged by Mr. Langley, who said that the disease may be checked much earlier in its course by this preventive measure. Dr Parrish, to whom the responsi bility of carrying out of the order was given, was emphatic in his statements that it would be enforced to the last letter. "While I believe that the action as requested covers very small territory in checking a communicable disease, I intend to see that it is carried ou fully," he declared. The measure is simply the result of consensus of medical opinion through out the Nation as to the best step to take against the mysterious malady, according to Dr. Holt, who will be sue ceeded as State Health Officer nex week by Dr. A. C. Seeley. of Roseburg. Ir. Holt is to report in the medica service at Camp Lewis October 19. Schools to Close Soon. "These simply are my instruction and I believe the situation to be seri ous enough to warrant the step," said Dr. Holt. "We know little about it ou here, so must take advice of those who have been fighting it for a month. The 60 cases reported by various doc tors are believed to be a good propor tlon of the total number in town. Te cases at Benson Polytechnic School are isolated and others are being placed in quarantine as fast as possible. At least two have developed into pneumonia, it is reported. The death rate of th iSpanish influenza is about 1 per cent mat or pneumonia about 9 per cent, ac cording to health officials. Schools will be closed today. Dr. 3'arnsh last night notified Superintend ent Grout of the order. Mr. Grout sai last night that there would be no ses eion of the schools today. Aone of those at the conference would venture an opinion to the lensrt f time which would be covered bv th order, but it was -said that 60 days is required to get the disease under con trol once it has obtained a start. nether the malady has obtained tha strong a hold on the city was a poin on which officials disagreed. Tw weeks may suffice to stamp out a i-igns of the influenza, was the most optimistic estimate obtainable. Much difficulty in interpretation an actual carrying out cf the spirit of th order is anticipated. Non-essential meetings may be carefully distin Kuished from those essential, it is be lieved. Whether the order applies t court sessions, council meetings an many other meetings bordeidlig on con.- ierences will be a point to De decided by city officials. Policemen and fire men will be used in keeping crowds on the move and preventing public gather ings, it is expected. municipalities In Illinois report the dis ease. Conditions at Army camps today showed a slight improvement for the second time since the malady became epidemic in the training places. During the 24 hours ending at noon 12.321 new cases were reported to the Surgeon General, with 2797 new cases of pneu monia and 889 deaths. The total of in fluenza cases reported at Army camps since the disease first appeared has now reached 211,000: pneumonia. cases, 25.083, and deaths 7432. The campaign of the Public Health Service is well under way. Nearly 250 physicians are in the field and head quarters have been organized in more than 30 cities The volunteer medical corps of the Council of National Defense and the American Red Cross are actively co operating with the health service in its campaign in New England. Pennsyl vania, New Jersey, ( Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina. Tennessee. Florida and Mississippi as well as in Arizona and Montana. In other states local headquarters have been estab lished in many cities. Additional cities to which physicians of the Public Health Service have been sent include Helena, Mont., and Wins low. Ariz. AM COAST ALERT TO DANGER Army Orders Issued to Take "Nec essary Steps." SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10. Orders have been issued to all posts in the Western Department of the Army to "take whatever steps they deem nec- sary to check any spread of Span ish influenza, it was announced here oday by Colonel I. Marvin Maus, the epartment surgeon. Authority to quarantine, retain extra urses and doctors and isolate all cases went with the orders. Only 11 cases have been reported among the 40,000 men in the departm ent, and the situation is well In hand. Colonel Maus said. LOS ANGELES. Oct, 10. Closing of publifl schools, churches, theaters and ther public gathering places in Los Angeles for an indefinite period, was ecided on today at a conference of the advisory health committee with Dr. L. M. Powers, city health officer. HELENA. Mont, Oct. 10. The epi- emio of Influenza now is general over Montana.- according to the State Board f Health, and while the board has re ceived official notice of only about 1000 cases; it is convinced there are twice as many in the state. Ono death has been reported from Utto. MIDDLE WEST FIGHTS PIAGUE Call Issued for. Physicians to En roll lor Service. CHICAGO. Oct. 10. An urgent call for all physicians in the Central West to enroll immediately for the struggle against the present influenza epidemic was issued tonignt by me united States Public Health Service. A salary of $200 a month with travel- ng expenses and a $4 a day hotel and ubsistence will be given those physi- ians selected for the work. CLEVELAND, Ohio. Oct. 10. Health Commissioner Rockwood, after a con ference with Mayor Davis late today. announced that beginning Monday next. theaters, motion picture houses. hurches and Sunday schools will not be permitted to open until after the nfluenzia epidemic has passert. ALL PORTLAND ALERT TO EPIDEMIC DAM Schools Close in Compliance With Federal Order. WAR PICTURES CALLED OFF Mass Meetings, Jxydge Gatherings and liberty Day Celebration Affected by Ruling;. Portland this morning presents an aspect typical of the old saying that the "best made plans of mice and men ofttimes go awry," for the proclama tion issued last evening by Mayor Baker, putting a stop to all public gatherings to prevent further spread of Spanish influenza, has set things at sixes and sevens in the interest of the public health. While there was some inclination on the part of those most seriously af fected to question the immediate neces sity of so stringent a step, all seemed to realize the danger of the disease becoming epidemic unless some pre ventive measures are adopted. There will be no schools in session in Portland today. Superintendent Grout said last night the Mayor's proclamation was binding upon school authorities, and that there would be no studies today. Theaters will remain closed, in compliance with the order, and the management of the Orpheum and the Heillg announced last night that patrons who had purchased seats for future performances might call at the box office and secure a. re fur d of their money. War Picture Canceled. "Private Peat's"' appearance in Port land, scheduled for Monday evening, has been canceled, as have the war pic tures, "America's Answer," which have been the attraction at the Municipal Auditorium this week. Mass meetings that were to have been held this evening In Lincoln, Jef ferson and Washington High Schools for the instruction of precinct captains and workers who were to have made the canvass for the Emergency Survey of the United States Homes Service, have been called off, to prevent danger of influenza spreading, and it is feared the survey will be checked to a con siderable extent, as a result. The meeting to have been held Sat urday evening in Municipal Auditorium, for the appearance of James K. Persh ing, has been postponed. He was to have spoken under auspices of the Ore gon State Liberty Loan Committee, which has made arrangements to obey the Mayor's orders relative to publio gatherings. Meeting Are Called Off. President P. L. Campbell, of the Uni versity of Oregon, was scheduled to address the Civic League luncheon Sat urday on "The Influence of War Activi ties on National Education," and that event has been canceled. Extension classes of tpa University of Oregon ' were to have held opening sessions in " Central Library tonight, but will com- i ply with the emergency health order. I W. A. Eliot has postponed his ached- ( uled lecture of Saturday evening on 1 "Some of Our Permanent Birds." He la vice-president of the Oregon Audubon Society, and this lecture was to hav been his last prior to leaving for i France. I Mrs. Mable Holmes Parsons, of the University of Oregon, will not meet prospective members of the Literature of National Idealism In Central Library I tonight, as scheduled, and tbe class on Current War Themes will not meet to- morrow evening. Likewise, the short story class will not meet In room A. Conference of the Multnomah County j Sunday School Association at Sunnyside l Congregational Church tomorrow . has been called off. j Liberty Day Plans Off. Many activities in lodge circles have! been abandoned because of the Mayor's : proclamation, and the Liberty day cel ebration, scheduled for Saturday, in j compliance with President Wilson's order, will not take plc:e, even though it was to have been an open-air event., Those In charge of safeguarding the . city's health deemed It proper, in view of the fact that large numbers of people would be brought together, to announce an aoanaonmcni dl piuii iu inis uuu- will take place at some more opportune j time. " Sl'RGEOX crSXIXGnAM DIES Pneumonia Fatal to Doctor-Lleuten- ' ant In Spruce Division. ASTORIA. Or., Oct. 10. (Special.) Lieutenant Malcom Cunningham, sur geon of the 76th Spruce Division, sta tioned at the Hammond mill, died at the hospital during the night as the result of an attack of bronchial pneu monia. The deceased was about 30 years of age, a resident of Chicago, 111., and left a widow, but no children. He was well known locally as he had ma terially assisted the local Red Cross chapter with instructions and demon strations In first aid work. The fu neral, with full military honors, prob ably will be held on Saturday. The remains will be shipped to Chicago for interment. A telephone message from Fort Stevens says three more deaths oc curred this morning among the troops stationed there, but the names of the victims were not given. SEATTLE TRIPS FORBIDDEN Soldiers Irs Camp Lewis Must Stay Away From Sound City. CAMP LEWIS. Tacoma. "Wash.. Oct. 10. Soldiers in Camp Lewis were for bidden to visit Seattle as a precau tionary measure against the spread of Influenza In orders Issued by Major Oeneral Joseph D. Leltch this after noon. The order was issued at the request of Seattle city authorities, it was said: According to officers here, a more virulent form of influenza has been found in Seattle than that suffered by soldiers here. A quarantine of Camp Lewis and the holding of soldiers in the military reservation will be ordered only in case of a severe epidemic, it was said. Administration and medical officers are working on the assumption a quar antine would Increase rather than de crease the spread of Influenmi. AH Make No Excuses H ear No Excuses CAUSE OF DEATH SOUGHT Jublic Health Service Active in Combatting Epidemic. WASHINGTON. Oct. 10 In Its fight to stop the spread of the Spanish influenza the Public Health Service is investigating the causes of the disease, the conditions which promote its spread and the part played by carriers in epidemics of the malady. It also is seeking an effective vaccine, but an nouncement was made tonight that the service has as yet been unable to rec ommend any that it believes will be successful. Meantime influenza continues to spread over the country. The malady has reached epidemic proportions in many additional cities. It has also ap peared in several counties in Oklahoma and Nevada, while from 500 to 600 Our Talk to Our Customers on The LIBERTY LOAN TO MOST PEOPLE we do not feel that it is necessary to en large on the sounj value of the Fourth Liberty Loan Bonds. Every man who has clipped his interest coupons on his other bonds has felt a little pang of regret that he did not take more . bonds while he was buying. Also, any person who reads the papers knows pretty well by this time why it is necessary to buy these bonds. The children in the school know. The very felons In their cells have pieced together their slender moneys and bought bonds weaving a new garment of patriotic decency from the torn rags of their lost citizenship. There are few so ignorant or so poor as to plead why they shoal d not buy when these have bought. But yon may meet some few who are inclined to advance reasons why it is inconvenient to buy as many bonds as they obviously should. 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Tha base hos pital reported 14$ new cases against 103 yenterrtn v. Ten new pases of pneu- monia and two deaths from pneumonia also were reported. Liberty loan subscriptions from of ficers and enlisted men here passed tha $100,000 mark today when Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbllt sub scribed $25,000. Many other subscrip tions are being made by officers and men which are credited to the com munities where they lived in civil life. Ona of the bootblacks in camp today subscribed (600. Several privates have bought bonds to tha extent of $1000 and one purchased $1400 worth. Danger In Telephones. As an additional precaution against tha communication of Spanish influ enza, railroad officials under the juris diction of Federal Manager O'Brien yesterday Issued notice to all employes regarding the care of telephones de voted to public use. It was ordered that tha mouthpieces of all telephones so used be sterilized and kept in sani tary condition. 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