Box Elder News Journal | 1920-06-11 | Page 2 | Influenza Epidemics

influenza epidemics A british doctor writing sn in the london lancet last november calculated as a result of his observation of influenza epidemics that one occurred every ever thirty three weeks though those falling in mild weather were so slight as to be hardly noticeable ile he predicted that the next nest epidemic would occur in january or february 0 of f this year sixty six ft weeks after the severe seere epidemic of 1918 1018 if his observations and theory are correct the next nest two should come in the mild weather of next nest september and of april 1921 1021 another one would then be due in december 1921 but as the gerin berm clu causing the disease seems to be losing its virulence there is ground for hope that in spite of the defenselessness of medical science in combating the epidemic the worst Is over for a good many years