11/02/1918: Day's Flu Score Lowest of Week; Gauze masks Gain in Popularity: Four Hundred Masks Distributed, Red Cross Will Keep Up Supply
Item
Title
11/02/1918: Day's Flu Score Lowest of Week; Gauze masks Gain in Popularity: Four Hundred Masks Distributed, Red Cross Will Keep Up Supply
Creator
The Eau Claire Leader
Source
Newspaper Archive
Date
November 2, 1918
Coverage
Eau Claire, Wi
Description
Newspaper article detailing the number of quaratines and cases in Eau Claire and talks about the making and wearing of masks.
Format
Newspaper
Rights
Public Domain. Please contact Special Collections and Archives, McIntyre Library, UW-Eau Claire for more information.
Publisher
The Eau Claire Leader
transcription
"Ten cases of influenza were quarantined here yesterday and seven were released from quarantine. This formed the lightest increase of the week, when recorded 20 Thursday, 16 Wednesday, 21 Tuesday and 23 Monday.
Four hundred masks have been made by the Red Cross and distributed from drug stores. The entire supply was exhausted yesterday, but more will be made today and supplied indefinitely as needed. Some twenty newsboys applied for masks and wore them on the streets. Today newsboys will collect in any homes where there is flu, hence their enthusiasm for masks.
Workers at the local board of exemption wore masks for the first time yesterday.
A telegraphic dispatch from London records the arrival of 6,000 American soldiers wearing masks. One death from influenza and fifty cases occurred early in the voyage. Masks were then assumed and the doctors attribute to the masks the absence of more cases.
Nineteen patients are now in the city isolation hospital, several of whom are from Altoona, Fall Creek or neighboring country districts."
Four hundred masks have been made by the Red Cross and distributed from drug stores. The entire supply was exhausted yesterday, but more will be made today and supplied indefinitely as needed. Some twenty newsboys applied for masks and wore them on the streets. Today newsboys will collect in any homes where there is flu, hence their enthusiasm for masks.
Workers at the local board of exemption wore masks for the first time yesterday.
A telegraphic dispatch from London records the arrival of 6,000 American soldiers wearing masks. One death from influenza and fifty cases occurred early in the voyage. Masks were then assumed and the doctors attribute to the masks the absence of more cases.
Nineteen patients are now in the city isolation hospital, several of whom are from Altoona, Fall Creek or neighboring country districts."