Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 55 | Street Dust is Cause of Much Whooping Cough

STREET DUST OUST IS CAUSE OF MUCH WHOOPING COUGH CI Ohio May a- a Use 25 25 Use of or whooping cough vaccine for Cor the protection protection protection pro pro- of or children who are likely to contract the disease is recommended Iby Health Officer J J. J H. H Landis in the current issue of or the Sanitary Bulletin Bulle Bulle- tin Whooping ug cough writes Dr Landis Laulis Lan Lau dis lis causes more deaths In this community com com- community than typhoid fever being especially especially espe espe- c ally dangerous in young oung children Pneumonia is one of the particular complications to be dreaded Street dust is cited as a menace that has bas proved fatal in an exceptionally large number of or cases in Cincinnati by Dr Landis Ho He also attributes part of cr the increasing death rate during 1918 to the reduction in street t car service service ser service ser ser- vice which he says h has s aided materially mate mate- materially in the spread of or the grip Deaths since January 1 number more than durin during tho the corresponding period of ot 1917 Those caused b by pneumonia monia smallpox whooping cough and other cthel communicable diseases were due directly or indirectly to the poison poi pol poison son of ot grip Dr Landis says