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Show To Avoid Grip. (New York Times.) Influenza, or grip, followed too often by pneumona, has spread rapidly during dur-ing the past week- of dust and high winds, throughout the city. Dr. Walter Wal-ter Bensel, sanitary superintendent of the health department, announces that the fatalities from this cause have resulted re-sulted in an alarmingly high death rate. Yet with reasonable care no one need fear this infectious disease It is in the throat that the germs of influenza in-fluenza And lodgment; thence their poisons filter through the mucous membrane into the blood. They immediately imme-diately affect the digestive tract the ungs, the kidneys and the inner membranous mem-branous passages of the head. Hence the acute swellings in the head and face, fever and marked general prostration. pros-tration. All may be avoided by the cleansing and keeping clean of the mouth, teeth, tonsils and .nose, and by some attention to the raiment during the shifting state of the weather Excesses, Ex-cesses, such as overeating and ' overdrinking over-drinking are particularly dangerous |