Nurse Famine Is Spokane Menace: Calls Are Greater Than Can Be Filled, Directory Officials Report.
Spokane yesterday had no nurses to draw upon for the several new cases of influenza wanting attention. The official nurses' directory, from which physicians and hospitals draw special nurses, was literally swamped, for every available nurse in the city has been placed on a case. Eight or nine calls for nurses had been received up to 4 o' clock yesterday afternoon, which the directory could not supply.