Show Guard Gard rd Against Flu i J ill in c S The second wide spread pread outbreak of the Spanish Influenza which together together together to to- gether with pneumonia in September Septem- Septem ber er Q ober and November caused used r I the th death of ot several hundred thou h thou sand I sand a persons J 1 in Iq the United states has has r hn n thousands thousands of ot additional addition addition- I al fatalities though in many cases cases case the disease in the later laler l ler epidemic mic ap appears ap- ap p- p pears j t to be e less violent than It was wasat as at firs rp I 1 It recurrence c ells i d l by I medical medical authorities authorities' to be due to inclement in- in in inclement clement and unseasonable weather I which which h in many se sec sections sections sec sec- p particularly in the middle w west west i I and in the Pacific coast region The U U. S. S public health service urges that officials and the public l take k ke e every ery precaution against the spread pread of ot the the disease in order that it l I Imay may may be stamped out At the tie annual meeting of the AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican Public Health Association in Chicago a few tew weeks ago Dr pr E E. CRosen C. C Rosen Rosenow w of Rochester Minn declared dear declared de de- ar d that h t 90 per percent cent cent ot t deaths from Influenza and pneumonia maybe may maybe maybe be prevented by the use of a properly p prepared d Vaccine He lie presented figI figures figures fig fig- ures ur ures b based sed on on ino inoculations ns about I Rochester which showed that after the third Inoculation there were t none cases of ot Influenza per 1000 while am among ng the the I rate was cases per 1000 Pneumonia I monia mania o occurred in less than two cases per 1000 among those 1 Inoculated I and in 14 caves cases per 1000 among those not 80 so ed treated Among Among persons Inoculated In tn- tn the death rate from influenza Influenza enza and pneumonia was only o one one- tenth as great an as among those not Inoculated Dr Woods HutchInson of Now York asserted before the meeting that tho a P only Cul meant means of ot fighting the Influenza Is th the wearing Of gauze masks maska and the tho use of vaccine vac vac- Cine Quarantines and the closing of p public me meeting places place he declared are aro relies r ll s of or b barbarism and q quite futile |