Show Fighting Ina I Influenza n UT UI health authorities are to be commended on or the course they have hn taken in in the thc influenza epidemic In making a stand for free vaccination an anthe and the abolition of or the flu mask they follow tho the recommendations recommendations of the best thought of the Utah medical fra fra- Physicians are arc free to admit that there is much muck about influenza which thc they have hn not mastered but the course ourse the Utah doctors have c taken is in harmony with the experience of the medical fraternity elsewhere The Utah doctors are arc pretty well welt agreed on the course lo to o be pursued and this is the course coure that the state and c city t health authorities have decided to a adopt opt V A little opp opposition has been offered to the abolition of the flu mask as a part of the course of prevention In the face of the he fact that the mask is con contrary to common com coin coin- non mon mon sense principles of health and has been weighed and and found wanting elsewhere it still has a few o ad cites cates hereDI here Dr DI J. J C. C is one of the few local physicians defending the mask and urging its universal a adoption option It is is interesting to know that his theories were not espoused until after the epidemic had raged for several cral weeks Likewise it is significant to note that his theories theolie arc are now opposed by leading ph physicians here an and elsewhere The mask has been thoroughly tested in other communities afflicted with influenza rand and the results fail to warrant its universal adoption In the influenza epidemic c the cit city and state tate health authorities need the support of the general general gen gen- en- en eral public sympathetic aid from the public I they can do o little to check its spread Representing as they do the best thought of the Utah medical profession pro- pro their re regulations and nna recommendations should be consistently followed Vaccination has lIas been heen found effective in checking the spread of influenza and the Offer effer of free vacillation here should prove pro a het help to l local cal efforts Stations are arc to be established e in different dif- dif f ferent parts of the city for the thc convenience con of the 1 pu pub pub- l lic he e. e No t doubt many man of our citizens will seek the cit city's s treatment not only as a n means of checking the spread of of t the h e disease hint but as a n measure of self protection ton In |