Topics of letter include the status of Beth Israel medical staff members serving in World War I, staff shortages caused by the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, the wartime conscription of women as nurses, and the status of the new hospital building on Livingston Place (future Dazian Pavilion).

Topics include status of Beth Israel doctors following the end of World War I, discussion of progress on the new hospital building at Livingston Place (the future Dazian Pavilion), staffing shortages at the hospital, and the ongoing Influenza Epidemic of 1918.

Letter makes reference to the Influenza Epidemic of 1918, saying "We have had quite an epidemic in the City of Grippe" (the French word for influenza) "with ear complications. Wherever you go you hear Otitis Media and Mastoiditis."