From: Oakland Tribune, 07 October 1918, Page 3, Column 4
OPEN LOCAL GRIPPE WAR IN SHIPYARDS
Lieutenant-Colonel Philip S. Doane, head of the government health and sanitary department has issued instructions to the managements of Eastbay shipyards to take every precaution to prevent the spread of Spanish influenza among the men. The order follows a much more drastic one to the managements of shipyards on the Atlantic coast, where he has ordered that barracks for the men be erected within 72 hours.
Mrs. Duncan McDuffie received a telegram this morning informing her of the death from pneumonia of her youngest brother, Bruce Howard, at Edgewood, Baltimore, where he was serving in the Chemical War Service. It is believed that the attack followed one of Spanish influenza.
Young Howard was a member of the class of 1919, University of California, and took out an emergency withdrawal last year for the duration of the war. He was 19 years old, and a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity.
Mrs. McDuffie left for New York today to be with her mother, Mrs. John L. Howard, widow of the former president of the Western Fuel Company.
