Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-29 | Page 22 | New Serum to Fight Effects of Influenza

I NEW SERUM TO FIGHT EFFECTS OF INFLUENZA f z o 00 Appropriated o b by r Congress to Be Used Combating g Disease 1 Washington Sept 28 8 scrum serum which with a 3 recently from tests teete just Juat ju t completed at nt several army camps has haa been found to be an nn almost positive preventive of ot contraction contraction contraction tion of ot pneumonia will bo be u used ed to combat combat combat com com- bat tho the epidemic of ot Spanish influenza which In tho week ending tO today l. l had in every state and andIn andin andin made mad It Ito appearance In all fill but a few arm army camps causing man many d deaths Use Una of ot the will bo be widely extended ex ex- ex- ex tended Congress today having appropriated appropriated to be used b by the public health service The public health aided b by tho medical forces of ot the arm army and navy immediately took tool steps to render effective aid to all districts districts dis dis- In which influenza has made mado Its ur l' Nurses es and physicians l S in fn large numbers number will bo dispatched to the affected states stales and training camps The Tho serum has been beon used to a n limited extent In several camps but no announcement nt had been mado made of ot Its dis discovery of ot widespread widespread wide wIde- results covery or oo pending tho spread l tests Physicians connected with tho the army medical school developed the formula for the scrum serum which It was stated tonight Is now no being manufactured manufactured In quantities sufficient to provide pro- pro Vl vide th the tha treatment of or persons dal daily Tho The serum Is designed primarily to ploy prevent nt pneumonia which often otten follows follows fol fol- fol- fol lows s attacks of or Influenza and which is the cause of ot practically all nIl tho the deaths attributed to influenza One treatment with tho the vaccine only In s nC needed 5 d. d although in the earl early earh stages stares hf J It Its development three vaccinations necessary Though medical authorities connected with the public be health service sor declined to venture a prediction as to Its effectiveness thc they Bald confidently that it will prove provo as ns valuable aa ns the vaccines being used n against nt other othor diseases nc Ie Reports orts received toda today by acting Surgeon Sur geon geon General Richard show that the I influenza epidemic has not yet ret been During tho the four twenty hours hour ending endIng end end- Ing at t noon today now note cases of the disease were reported as compared with ith i for tor the day a before The total number of ot cases s in nil all camps reported was l. l l i. i A A large increase also Is shown in th the number of ot deaths resultIng resulting result result- fn ing from pneumonia 47 having been reported against for tor the previous da day A decided decrease however was wa shown in the number of or new ne ca cases es of ot pneumonia 5 S being being- reported toda today as aa compared with 71 j tho the day before Camp Pike Ark reported 1624 n new w cases the largest larest number from an any camp Decreases wore were shown at nt Camp Devens Mass with only 53 6 new cases reported and m at Camp Lee Va Va- with 1 new cases New en cases at at Camp Meade Mcade old Md increased from sol yesterday yesterday yester yester- I da day to 1098 1095 tod today and at nt Camp Grant III IlL from 68 to SG 64 Camp mp Dix N. N J. J reported 1047