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Show SCIENCE LECTURER FAVORING JORDAN'S THEORY A3 TO FLU Fear as Element In Epidemic is Dis-Discussed Dis-Discussed by J. W. Greene Prominent Christaln Scientist St Louis, Jan 23. Judge' Samuel W. Green of Louisville, Ky., member of the Board of Lectureship of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Bos-ton, Mass., discussed the Influenza jituation last night in the course or his lecture at Second Church of Christ Scientist, at 423 Washington boulevard. Judge Greene declared the recently recent-ly published statement of Dr. Jordan assistant city health commissioner, concerning the danger of a recurrence recurren-ce of the influenza epidemic, is an interesting in-teresting indication that there are health commissioners awake to the fear is an element in sickness, especially espec-ially in so-called epidemics. Judge Greene said: "A statement in The St. Louis Star a day or tw.o ago from Assistant City Health Commissioner Jordan Is investing in-vesting to right-thinking people, as an indication that there are health commissioners iri the land awake to the fact that fear is an element In sickness, and more especially is fear largely the producing cause of called epidemics of disease in communities. com-munities. Dr. Jordan recognizes Miis in his statement. If St. Louis pa pers should announce the flu had reached this city! there would be 200 cases reported to this office tomorrow. to-morrow. This is exactly1 the situation situa-tion existing now in the city of Chicago, Chi-cago, where their 'health commission er, for ten days or two weeks, has been daily issuing bulletins on the coming and the presence of influenza in that city, until at this time, his campaign of education has produced in Chicago almost a panic, and the newspapers there, carry, as the most important items of news, the number of new cases daily', number of deaths daily, thus adding to the fear of the people and consequently producing unhappy results. Experience In New York "It would be a fine tiling for the people of this land if Chicago and other communities had learned from the experience of New York City during the influenza epidemic of more than a year ago. In that city there is a wise and sane health commissioner, commiss-ioner, Dr. Royal S. Copeland. In the course of an address at a public meeting meet-ing of the ministers and doctors called call-ed in New York City during October, 1918, to consider measures for preventing pre-venting the spread of influenza. Dr. Copeland made this statement: 'Being 'Be-ing a phyician, I am of course, not a Christian Scientiest, but I was reading the other day an article in tihe Christian Science Monitor, stating stat-ing that a man's physical condition is largely the result of his mental condition, and I am of the opinion there is much truth in ths theory, for I have always believed the - Bible statement, "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," and, as health commissioner com-missioner in New York, I shall encourage en-courage a normal mental condition. No picture shows, theatres, churches schools, or other public gatherings shall be prohibited. Let people go on in their usual normal wav, with their minds occupied with tho customary custo-mary occupations, rather than fixed by quarantine regulations up.vi the presence of an epidemic of influenza." "This course resulted in New Yoik saving the smallest death rate from Influenza of any 'arge city in the country." Philadelphia., only two nours ride from there, with its quar antine masks, and other up-to-date preventives of influenza, had three times the death rate of New York. In the army camps of the United States there was even a greater contrast con-trast shown in the death rate." Figures from Army Camps. "Dr. Copeland in the course of his address, gave his figures, saying there were in the military campB of the United States, when the influenza epidemic began, a million soldiers, and, in spite of the strict and severe quarantine of all camps, the use of vaccine serums etc., more than 11,-000 11,-000 of these soldiers died of influenza. influ-enza. During the same period in New York City, with more than 6,-000.000 6,-000.000 population, and no quarantine quaran-tine or other severe regulations by i health authorities, only 5,000 died of influenza, being about one thirteenth thir-teenth of the death rate of the soldiers sol-diers in camps. "We may safely assume that tho majority of people in St. Louis aro not yet ready to adopt the theory of .Christaln Science concerning influenza, influ-enza, or any other so-called epidemic, epidem-ic, and yet it might be very helpful to the public at large, even without any learning toward Christaln Science Sci-ence to be at least sane enough not to be frightened into the belief that we are to have a recurring epidemic and to remember the experience of New York City, and to incline to the wisdom of that health commissioner, and the sanity of our own Dr. Jordan, Jor-dan, and know that perhaps a large majority cf so-called influenza cases are entirely the result of fear," |