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Show U. S. HEALTH SERVICE II ISSUESWARNING II Increase in All Respiratory DIs- 11 eases After the Influenza f Epidemic Probable. Ill Influents Expected to Lurk for Montjis. jf H Hew to Guard Against Pneumonia. li H Common Colds Highly Catching lm- L H portaneeof Suitable Clothing Could .' H . Save 100,000 Lives. Washington, D, O. With Hie aubsld- i I ence of the epidemic of Influenia the ,j H .attention of health officers Is directed !'. H to pnouuioula, bronchitis and other H diseases of the respiratory system X H which regularly cause a large number , V 'I of deaths, especially during the winter M H season. According to Rupert Blue, '41 Burgeon General of the United Btutes j 'JH Public Health Bervlce, these discuses 'Mil will be especially prevalent this win- ter unless the people are particularly i'a ill careful to obey health Instructions. SI "The present epidemic," said Bur- J'l geon General Blue, "has taught by bit- .T.l ter experience how readily a condition 3 beglunlug apparently as a slight cold s may go on to pneumonia aud death. 1 IH Although the worst of the epidemic la, H II over, there will continue to be a large ij'tal number of scattered cases, many of , them mild and unrecognized, which tij will be danger spots to bo guarded ,M against." The Burgeon General llkcnod jf the prcteut situation to that after h , rfj .H great Are, saying,' "No Are chief who tIH .understands his business stops playing "S?B the hose on the charred debris as soon ''IhI an th fames and visible Arc have (lis- Vl nitf-nti'cl. On tho contrary, ho con- fH Unties the water for hours nnd even fjH days, for he knows that there Is dan- I "'i'H ger of the fire rekindling from smol- (illH .derlng embers." VHH "Then you fear another outbreak of il ' Influenzal" he wbb asked. "Not neccK- 'SLa sarlly another large epidemic," (.aid jlil the Burgeon General, "but unless the JH 'people learn to rcollio the scrlousncse I iof the danger they will he compelled to 'pay a heavy death toll from pneutno- jH nta and other rcsplrutory diseases. , Common Colds Highly Catching. "It la encouraging to observe that ' people ore beglnnliii; to learn that or-dltiary or-dltiary coughs and colds aro highly 1 catching und are spread from person 1 to person by tnrttns of droplets of ) germ ludcn mucus. Such droplets are I 1 sprayed luto tho nlr when careless or V Ignorant people coukIi or sneczo with- out covering their mouth and nose, ijt , Is also good to know that pcoplo have J, learned something about the vnlue of fresh air. In summer, when people f are largely out of doors, tho respire- Kl tory diseases (coughs, colds, pnoumo- li nla, etc.) are Infrequent; In tho fall, Bj as people begin to rcmuln Indoors, the U respiratory diseases Increase; In the Vml winter, when people are prone to atuy In badly ventilated, overheated rooms; i the respiratory diseases become very H prevalent ( Suitable Clothing Important I "Still another .factor In the produc-' I lion of cold, pneumonia and other re-splratory re-splratory diseases Is carelessness or lg- I noruuee of the people regarding suit- ' I able chptbtng during the seasons whrn ,tue weather suddenly changes, sitting; In warm rooms too heavily dressed or, , what Is even more common, especially among women, dressing so lightly that windows arc kept closed In order to bo comfortably warm. This Is a very In-4urlous In-4urlous practice. j Could Save 100,000 Lives. t "M "l believe we could easily save one I huudred thousand lives annually In - the United States If all the people C would adopt the system of fresh air .living followed, for example, In tuber- culosls sanatoria. There Is nothing 1 mysterious about It no specific medl- cine, no vaccine. The Important thing , 1 'H Is right living, good food and plenty of ' freail! air. I Droplet Infection Explained In Pictures. "The Bureau of Public Health. Treasury Department, has Just Issued a striking poster drawn by Berrymau, tlie well-known Washlngtob cartoonist. Tee poster, exempllfles the modern method of health education. A few years ago, uuder similar circumstances, the halth authorities would have Is- -I sued au offlclsl dry but scientifically accurate bulletin teaching the role ot J droplet Infection In the spread of re- J splratory diseases. The only ones who t would have understood the bulletlu L would have been those who already knew all about the subject. The man In the atreot, the plain citizen aud tho , iH many millions who toll for their living j iH would have had no tlino and no deslro 1 to wade through the technical phrase- : USE thb i H COLDsl INFLUENZA, fNEVMONIA, AND j lVBOCVLOaS AU SfREAD THIS WAY HH Copies of this poster can bo ob- talned free' of charge by writing to tlio. Surgeon General, U. B. Public Health' Service, Washington, D. C jH gBfHHBjSBBvJBI |