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The following statistics will be interesting:
Number of families supplies with food..........144
Number of people supplied with food............568
This means that these families were taken care of for a period of
from one to three weeks.
Homes investigated not needing help...............150
Number of home in which nurses were placed...71
Number of persons nursed..............................279
Number of volunteer nurses..............................78
Number of paid nurses (not trained)....................5

This does not mean that we had at any one time anything like this
number of nurses -- fifteen is the greatest number we could call
upon any single day. This menas fifteen for both night and day
nursing. A few of ths number only nursed one or two days, others
nursed almost without intermission through the calendar month.
Near the close of the epidemic we had very few nurses to call upon,
many being physically exhausted, others having contracted influenza.
I should like to add that the paid nurses, four of who were negro,
performed their work in the most praiseworthy manner. They were of
the greatest assistance to the Committee.

Elizabeth W. Henderson Cott[begin xout]o[end exout][^e]n
Mrs. Lyman A. Cott[begin xout]o[end exout][^e]n
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Chairman Influenza Emergency Committee