Show fear an clement in epidemic EO 4 A lu liilie Ilie st lout louis star a day or two ngo ago from train assistant Ale tant city health Cona missioner jordan la Is in ter eating tu to right thinking people as a an indication that there aro tire itt health aith commissioners in lit the jand land awake to ho tie fact that fear is I 1 an element in sickness Hir knem and more especially pec lally is fear tear largely lai tooly the he producing cause of SO 0 o called epidemics ept domice of disease in corn com dr pr jordan recognizes thia this in ili hie ilia statement if st louie louis paper papers should announce the flu bad had reached thie tills city there would be cases repol reported ted to thie this office tomorrow thie thin in exactly the situation existing exi eting 1 now OW in lit tho the city of chicago Ch icaco where 1 heir health commissioner for ten tah datys or two weeks hae has been dally issuing bulletins on the coming and the presence pretence of influenza in that until at thic this lime time his hi campaign of education hae line produced in chicago a panic and the newspapers thero there carry as the moat most important of news the number of now cases dally number of deaths dally daily thur thus adding to the tho fear of the people and unhappy results it duld hu be a thing for the people of this land ft f chicago and other communities had learned froni the ofner of new york city during tho tha influenza of more than a year esgo in ili that city there Is a wise and sane health commissioner dr royal S 8 copeland poland Co in the course of an tin ad dress at the public ine meeting eting of minister ministers and doctor doctors called in new now york city during october 1918 2928 to consider cone liler measures mea for preventing the pread spread of influenza dr copeland made this being a physician I 1 am of course not a christian I 1 aas as reading the other day an article arti cleIn in the christian bel ence monitor stating that a 31 mans physical condition con dItton la Is largely the remit of hie his mental condition and I 1 am of the opinion thero there la Is much truth in thia this theory for I 1 have al bays ays believed in the bible statement As a man thin keth in hi ilia heart so id fd he and an a health commissioner in new york I 1 have decided accordingly that ue v shall en courage bourage a normal mental condition no picture hows shown theatres theartres the atres churches schools or other public gatherings hall be prohibited let people go on in their usual normal way alth their occupied with the cueto custo wary occupation occupations rather than fixed by lna regulations upon tho the pio piet yence sence of an epi epidemic dentle of influenza this tills course resulted ih lit new york having tho the death rate from front influenza of any large 1 city in the country philadelphia only two hours ride from there with its quarantine antine ant lite basks and vind other up to date preventives of had lind three dinies the death rate of new york in the army camps of at the united states theto was even a greater contrast shown in the death rate dr copeland in the course of his ilia address gave his figures saying there were in the military tamps of the united states when the influenza epidemic began itt n million soldiers and in spite of the strict and severe of all camps the iise use of f vaccine serums etc more than 11 II of these soldiers died of influent xu during the same period in new now york city with more than 1000 population and no quarantine or other severe regulations by health authorities oraby died of influenza being about thirteenth one of the death rate of or the soldiers in camps callips wo we may abely safely assume that the majority of people in st louis are not yet ready to adopt the theory of christian science concerning influenza or any other so called disease and yet it might be very helpful to the public at large even without any leaning toward christian science to bo be at least sane enough not to be frightened into the belief that we are to have a recurring epidemic and to remember ember the experience or new york city and to incline to the wisdom of that health commission erand the sanity of our own wan dr jordan and know that perhaps a large majority of so called influenza ases eases arc are entirely the result of tear fear |