DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 3;i 



October first, all available places in the men's dormitories and the 

 upper parts of the Agricultural and Engineering buildings were given 

 over in accomodating the men of the S. A. T. C, Class A. Under Govern- 

 ment regulations these men must all be high school graduates or have 

 had equivalent training. Men from all over Michigan were received and on 

 October first, with an impressive ceremony they were sworn in as joint 

 members of the College and as soldiers in the United States Army sub- 

 ject to military discipline. They were clothed in U. S. uniform and received 

 the pay of a private in the ranks. 



The Navy department also estal)lished a unit for naval training con- 

 sisting of fifty men. They, however, were not segregated from the S. A. 

 T. C, but were a part of it. 



All went well until the tenth of October when Influenza appeared. 

 The characteristic symptoms of the disease were at once recognized 

 and efforts were made by the Medical Corps to restrict the spread of the 

 disease but without avail. As a consequence, extensive hospital space 

 was our greatest need. The only way in which this could be provided 

 was by moving men from the east barracks to the new gynmasium and using 

 the barracks with cubicles as hospitals for the Influenza patients. The 

 disease was with us from October tenth until after the armistice was 

 signed. Deaths from the disease numbered eighteen. Aside from these 

 many of the cases were of such a severe nature that the patients have 

 been a long time in acquiring normal health. 



Quarantine was established immediately after the Influenza showed a 

 number of cases and the young women of the college were segregated in 

 all class work from the young men. This quarantine was maintained for 

 over six weeks and resulted in our being able to keep the Influenza from 

 spreading from the army detachment to the occupants of the women's 

 dormitories. There were only two mild cases among the young women 

 which might have been diagnosed as Influenza but there were no deaths 

 among the young women students throughout the balance of the prevalence 

 of the epidemic or the rest of the college year. 



I desire at this point to acknowledge gratefully the assistance rendered 

 by both the Lansing and the East Lansing Red Cross throughout the 

 Influenza epidemic and also the great service rendered by Miss Elizabeth 

 Parker, College Extension Specialist in Home Nursing and Mrs. Margaret 

 S. Holt, hostess at the Peoples Church at East Lansing. TJiis church 

 offered the use of their parlor as a headquarters for the friends of students 

 suffering from Influenza, where Mrs. Holt met them and rendered every 

 assistance. 



When the first case of Influenza appeared, the feeding of the patients 

 was a matter entrusted to the army cooks at the mess halls. As a result, 

 the food which could be provided the invalids was of a nature suitable 

 to a military campaign. Professors Edmonds and Garvin of the Home 

 Economics department early recognized this difficulty and under their 

 supervision, aid and assistance, a diet kitchen was estal)lished in the 

 basement of the Horticultural building adjacent to the barracks. This 

 change in the dietary gave favorable results at once. 



For the next few years, no aggregation of teachers will ever gather in 

 the United States without discussing more or less heatedly the outcome 

 of the experiment of the establishment of the S. A. T. C. While both 

 students and teachers endeavored to make the plan a^success from an 



