In NY City the Mayor called to draft men with picks and shovels to bury the dead.  There had been 500 persons arrested for spitting in public.

In Rochester at the Baden Street Emergency Hospital State Guardsmen were serving 8-hour shifts as nurses aides.  Local families were taking in orphaned children.

It was ordered that Schools would not reopen on the following Monday. Meanwhile, in Ontario, it was ordered that church services and Schools could reopen.

In Rochester, more drivers and nurses were needed. It was reported that many volunteers were working during the day and then coming directly to work to go to houses to nurse families until 11 or 12 at night, at which point they were taken home.

In one house, the “there had been three deaths, those of the father and two children, and all that were left of the family were in bed sick, so no lone was left to do anything.”

In Rochester, there were 501 new cases and a total of 8548 cases. There were 31 deaths from influenza, with a total of 276 deaths in the City. There were 59 deaths from lobar pneumonia and 26 from bronchial pneumonia too date. The youngest were:  4-month old, Guisseppina Buongugliermo, and 6-month old, Albert Schenk.

 

 

© words by Dan DeMarle 5/7/2020