A caravan of red cross trucks delivery food and supplies to ill families

In Rochester, there were 3,333 cases and the death rate was almost double from a year before. There were eight more deaths including individuals who lived on Rugby, Epworth, and Jefferson.

Because Rochester saloons were closed, people were running to the saloons in the surrounding towns and villages where those establishments were still open.

More nurses were needed, so the Red Cross was now looking for men to help out.  IT was found that when nurses went to visit the sick that the nurses or others “find whole families prostrated with nothing in the house to eat. In other cases the only persons in the family who can cook are ill and others have to make out as well as they can.” As such an emergency food corps was formed yesterday noon to cook foods and make broths to deliver to these families.  Families, except those in extreme poverty, were expected to pay a reasonable price for this food.

© words by Dan DeMarle 4/28/2020