Show SAMOA SOLVES FLU science admits that it knows very little about the flu germ how it disseminates semi nates itself and how it can be controlled the experience the country has gained in the past two epidemics has taught very little because of 0 the diversified methods which have been employed in com batting the disease but from tar far away samoa comes an enlightening experience that ought to help materially in arriving at some definite plan with which to fight this terribly fatal contagion that has harrasser harr assed the land tor for two winters it is reported that the flu claimed ten tell thousand natives on that group of 0 islands last year they died in such great numbers each day that it was impossible to hold individual funerals or even to provide the common burial equipment bodies by the hundreds were laid side by side in long trenches and buried without a marker while other hundreds were heaped in piles and burned it was in very deed a pestilence more deadly than anything that ever visited those islands there was one island however which escaped completely and that was the island belonging to great britain according to an authentic report when the flu developed at the main port a few days after a ship had touched there with influenza patients aboard and we tle malady quickly quickly spread throughout I 1 the country and then over thO thea entire island the british island was immediately placed under strict quarantine and not a soul left nor landed upon the island for a period of fourmont tour months lis there was no mail and no communication of any kind with the outside world and the result was that not a single case of influenza developed on oil the entire island this remarkable report is given by reliable parties who have recently come from those lands and who happened to be on the particular lar island where the epidemic did not make its appearance this then is one specific instance which demonstrates that the disease can be controlled and Is evidence that it is a communicable disease that can only be contracted by a person coming in contact with another person afflicted with it |