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Show DR. BLUE SAYS FLU & WILL NOT STAGE I COMEBACK ' Nationwide Scourge, Cost- ing 350,000, Lives, Is Over, He Asserts. N. E. A. Washington Bureau. n'ASIIINfJTON. IV C Iec. 13- ln ' View of serious recurrences' of influ- enza epidemics tri many part of the - country, Surgeon General Kupert lilue ;of the. I'nited states public health J ervtce has issued, through the Waah-- Waah-- 4ngUm- bureau of 4 he Xwwpatr i;-terprlae i;-terprlae association, this rBsnranr-: "The country ned not fear that the thf1ue?jj!A epidemic wilt return. It hua come and goup for Rood." Dr. Hlue explained that sporadic oitt-r oitt-r bursts of the disease may be expect1! . In various parts of the country, as in , f ; all epidemics-, and added that, "like the ioor, we, have influenza ak.ys ; with us ! Dr. mu doesn't believe there will i be this winter another suli general f visitation that which bus exact! ! .a toll "f il3ir.no V Hvlliah and 2.r.(Mi sol I "dier and sailor livs in this country. CASES STILL REPORTED. j Influenza cases are still reported j fl-HMl --1 Smne ;tlai mifts try in trace a like- t pess to In pneuni'inic epidemic wh:-h ; 1Vept t'hina a iiuatter f a century jwnc. and to the -f ' k j.iieu inonia" which appear; im "iVnop.iM 'and (joldfield. New. fif t en tw.ntv '.je.irs ;ls;o. r . i HUHUi of the, greftl rp-.i. I lS-lirf. Hy some l li f; lien Tlt'- ,utel to w;ir diet, by othet.s to wartime ; --overcrowding in ramps, etc. ; otU-i a i 'acrths H to etrnatfc conditions, j With no acret-nient ns to rauses. no ' -"specific preventive lias ct been au - i I thoritat ively announced. J "There are littlf p kets in various tplaes which the epidemic may have kipped.' lir, Hhie Miid. "and in these! -a recurrence of the d'ajM on a MimM j 'scale may be expected. j "RECURRENCES UNLIKELY. J "The coming of cold and jncVment . weather, brinicing colds and hron hitis ' tb Ms wake, will ulfeo mux- th.- disease j -to reappear in some place.. j:ut it will tnot recur lti its virulent form for smne j "rearis, perhaps, because It has pra- s tit-a-il y y he m s t ett 1 he - number of its j . potential vie t im. w "The only places v. 'iere the epidemic s now raciii in foil U rce are Alaska nd F'nrto lii-o. The puhlic henilh servlew recrntly ili.-pati lied a na val rHier to Alaska with ph sir tans, I nurses und suiplie to f cht the dm-j esse, aiir I ha atle1 it Mia ;iivef. j )itlr of I'urlo Kieo akinii w h.u is ! t:sed'd there. 1 EXPERTS STUDY DISEASE. "The publ.f shmtld retnenil'r t li n t 1 lufl'M'u.'s i-i alw.i' wtif Tr. s'ftHMir'i ' Ittd in th fn m of nij ej;i'l''Uii I'll -OHUt Ifl.l'Ofl deaths wern .i 1 1 ritutt e.l to ' , U In this country. j "Ther in pi hi-I i-al ! v rnthtns: thai ij can dono to prevent It -spread, uu- i Immn it he to build an eucplTonally I i lilwh t 'hlncse wall around the pia1'' ; i ; where it exists The public health! service experts ar - roMboiini; their j . study of the disease ami cAjM-riinentnii; ' n va clues and serurni, but ni'tliiiiii j has yet been found m tho wa of a preventive. The fame rules of precati- lion that were fallowed tluilliK the epidemtc should he followed in piu.LCb "where the disease recurs.'' I 1 |