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Show SPANISH INKLUKNZA MUCH LIKE ,A CIRIPPK .Wal.uiv l;ound Not Danvnvrous Unless Neglected, W'hon rnouinoiuht May Develop; History Is Related. EAUt.V !;im M.t il:.H;vuoh from Ihi-roi Ihi-roi e told ot a lntorlou! muludy v hu h wax rrt'iii; iIiron,;:i Spain i:i the ftrn and oh.ruoier of the Kill. Not lonj; iLfter this ft Htnil-l.i Htnil-l.i i- ephloimo look hold In Switzerland and pt'.iet r:it ed !!mllt.vousl', in mild and ioU ted forms. Into Vranoe, Norw uy d:id Kik!.huI. Ihir'v In August this ear, o.u-iu-d from Kuropp in ooean Unors and C. an.--pi.M-: s, appealed in this ooun-trv. ooun-trv. Wtthm the pat foitnlht or throe weeks th.o Oivurretu i'H of (lie malady in the oivihan population and anions the jioM.ers in lanionments h.avo tnereaed m rea.'v l-i mini he:- t'iMt co ernnnr.t, stato aiid muntolp.il hoaiL:i Puveaus are now iiu'M:;:i all their I'oree to oomhat w hat they reeos;ni.-.e to Ve on approaoii-!tu approaoii-!tu ep.d. nue oi the so-i ailed "Spanish in; .i:i'n;.." Thus la.' reports hit v p ben received ! e v teliip of the death o: two f all ho s 1m tn ar;nv (vn!ii!ri; r imp. Tliry ai e Alexander Iceland llre et , on of Vh xaader I , Viewer, for'in'r ma or of Oden, and Ki-m Vtt'aur Hoi;aii of lvt e. I he fo: im- dh i at the threat l.a-xrS n.ial M.iiiO'l. 'hicai;i, and the a:ter r.x a naval hospital m l'hiUdel-p'a- IhiT malady. a.v.rd!.it; to hA.-terio!opieal ope:-:s. I? not dat. serous unless nei;leet-d. I: . arr.es ad the mtuep-.s of oom-:ro-i srip, and if ire.fed :xt tneep-, tneep-, lion has no more ell e feels than an ordinary ordi-nary t old in the head. If not treated i early it becomes more violent and bale- i ! to', than the j-r:v and quite fre-iuentlv re?o-l es into pr,e;:n:o:iia. As k 1th '.lie sr'.p. the disease is characterised by excess: ex-cess: e 5neeitisr. red den !rc ar.d running of the ees. running of the n.--e, chid follow ed hv fever of from 101 to " j. ac in.-: back and joints. U$ of npoetite, J and a general feelins of debil:t. Can Re Overcome. Aevoritnsr to army and public health officers of-ficers if properly treated the malady can be overcome with little diftic!!t. Army! h-whth o;:ic;a's advise person feeling the1 f' st effe-'ts of the disease to so to bed w it hoi. i tie-ay and p ae themselves m-d m-d r im:rcdiHte eare of h physician. Treat-pier.t Treat-pier.t uTider proies-ijcpa! .l,-pi-tlon is sin-! sin-! p'e. but imvoMap.t. eonsistinc prin. ipallv J cf rest in U d, rlertv of fresh air. ahurdar.t focs.1 v.i;h Povprs powder for j the relief of pain. l.eiy ease with fever I s .ov:ld be regarded as serious and the i I atieiu s- 'ouid not leave hi? bed until a J nor a. a', ten perature is restored. Con-, Con-, v.i!os -tree r am res careful treatment to s vo d serious com pi tea t ions, such a bronchial pneumonia. Purine the outbreak out-break In foreign countries .inirdne ard ast'i'in have been most generally used d.r ir.c the. acute attack. Th.e h:s'.or.- and bacteriolocical character charac-ter of Sr an is h ir.r.uer.ra are still uncertain. uncer-tain. Few of th.e ca ses under obsen a-; a-; tion have revealed trie presence of the ' influenza bacillus wl.ich would be re-: re-: .vrred to 1 ear out the contention that ' S vanish influenza is nothing more than 1 the classified influenza, or crtp. which j had its origin in Russia in 1S9. Name Arbitrary. The designation of th.e new malady as ' "Sniiiush infiuensa."' !s purely arbitrary. The mahadv has not be-n definitely tracked to Spain, further than that it I was In Spain, early this year, that this panitular form flrt obtained a hold. Spain disclaimed the unwelcome guest, and the people leaped at the conclusion ' thai this new evil, like other evils of the i w-.tr. must be traced to German oricins. T..ii,-& tvL-n theories oesented themselves. I :,e was that a new trench t.icterla must ! have been born in the German lines, I where the troops, p-vly fed and cJothed, I w?r In :rir In a reduced stale of Mtal-; Mtal-; ity. and that this bacteria must hav j !irn carried from Flanders Into Spain by the strore: winds to the Spanish coast I list win'cr. While this theory would explain the subsequent appearance of the ! influenza amon the allied troops, j it would hardly be as applicable to Spain. re:a:se Madrid, a city of the interior, was I in the grip of the "disease long before 'any of the coast towns were even ; touched. Theory of Cause. , The other theory wit that the diea.e was c:irrif d i nto Spam bv the ere '. s of ; G'-rman submarine boats, just as the bac-' bac-' :-t1j. of yeliow fever v. ere beped to ; have b'-en created cut of the filthy and croAded conditions of the "id slave ships. This theory, in the opinion of medicaJ i sr-i'-nT.ist.?. must be accepted as ingenious j rather than probable. It has not been rtfin:tlv concluded that Spanish infiu- fr,zd is anything more than the familiar ; (Trip. ' it is fairly certain that the Spanish j influenza, if different from the familiar ! grip, ons-ir.ated in the German camps, i In this connection it may be noted that l through all the wars of history diseases venerated by ansan'tary herdinjr of men in the camps of beiligrerents have always produced epidemics which before that time had been little or not at all known to rnanv of the populations affected. Serious Aspect. Whre far less dangerous than the erear majority of scourges that have emanated during prior wars, almost all of which have been traced to bad sanitation in ! o 'ir camps. Spanish influenza has Us I eerous asoect in its possib:e impairment t nf an armv's offensive efiieiencv. For :hi reason' the med'cl staffs of ail the Pllied armies are exerting every precau-'fo-i to proreet the allied front from in-! in-! f-'.ion. Tho disease reduces a soldier's 1 Uaiity so that he cannot n"s''it and makes him ?' readv carrier of the malady to ; others unless he is instantly removed ! from the ranks. I America was practically exemr-t from direct contact with the new disease if it ! -a; rw until the arrival in an eastern 1 non of the Vorw-irian liner Berpenst jord. i wh-n developed d-jrinr the oyage across ! the Atlantic 20j cae-:s of sickness resem- ; i h'Ar.s influenza. ; Prior to the arrival of Lie how - i ever and even ori-r to the appearance i or' th lioase In Spain, there were recorded re-corded -'"'0 employees et tlie Ford auto I plant in Petrolt suffering from wnnenzA. Thhs wa In April of this year. As to the hh, Rei-eensfjord. there was detmlte in-vetJcatiou in-vetJcatiou Eleven patients were transferred trans-ferred from the ship to a Brooklyn hos-dII hos-dII Since then several liners have reached "these shores bringing Influenza PaThe Yheorv that the Btrange epidemic of inHuenza attacked only those who were run down because of lack of proper food ws exploded in late August when a dispatch dis-patch from an Irish port told of the occurrence oc-currence of symptoms of this dliise amont? officers and men stationed at an American destroyer base. ! Sailors Well Fed. Aside from American soldiers the 1 American sailors are probably the hest 1 f'f.'n "crons in Europo, but the disea, .-tracked several score of them there, and I for a wek or so disnipted crew astlgn-1 astlgn-1 int, completely. All of the Ms re-pr,VrH re-pr,VrH lr was found nrthat instance i'hnt tb dseafe was not dangerous if taken in hand quickly enough. Within ihp last week tho so-callfd r-qih influenza has reaped a harvt-st b the army cantonments of this coun-trr coun-trr inr than 6(-n'f cases were reported re-ported from Camp Devns alone. Of this "number only on case Pssed f-om i tnf'm-nza into pneumonia and Pro ed f.,,.,1 T'n- Mntomrpnt whs not placea u't-tk-'r rjijarantino because it had b'-rn d- idd ?t Washington tiiat such a step von id' -.o chcp the spread of influenza. iMiiLrniU of Spanish influenza at five ;i.Minr,n;( training enmps wre reported o:j Knday by Su-gcon General Gorgiir, inikinn : total number tit a sen up to noon on i i-iday ICU.;. wtlh rl. n iliatli--the mi "a i up 1 vventt liad the t- rf.it i - ninnber, li-'N.i; t'amp Iac, t:.'l!. mat Camp I'pton. (iOL. lther camps lvpiu-uni; the presence, of the rpidrinto w n n Ca.np Cordon, Cor-don, iia., iS.s; tamp S tactile, N. V.. i' J ; t, .imp H ump! t s, 'a., , Ca mp Merrltl, .. J., and Camp 1 w i S ash., 1 1. Kasily Communicable. In view of the fact that the dl.-e.ne ia eaMiy com in u nil able i : om p. i .n to person per-son as wel ii- tiirom:'n cariiii-;. pit an-ti"hi an-ti"hi are indent a:,.i!ust ca i . lc.--Mir:-s In t)a- miiticr of pc. .(.;,al Cc i n 1 1 1 1 s. Sm c.-Ing. c.-Ing. spitting and culiini; should be done "lwaM into u ha iuiIm-i i hh f, a.-i m' -relltuii thus rx -UmmM act as c.ri ie: s, ' The federal lutlth 1. p.i i l ti.-i t litis Issued Is-sued a not lc MiiiM-st I uk- (.at pet sens coming In contact with these who mh-oo or cou.h violently in public places should be car.ful to wash their pupd-. ttud l'ae. s thoroughly wttli s.mp and water as m"I1 ss polble. Smohets ho c ; -er ic m e the first s. in pt.un of li.rUier-.'.a n ! i ad im i to t m i oh m eo 1 1 ip a tew ill 1 1 1. 1 1 1 the oipt'Miis d'app-'iu . iV muokm iiil-l.aes iiil-l.aes tho mucous hi. iiil'ian.- InaMtuieh as the !.t.--t pi'h.mc of in-fluenra in-fluenra occurred m. u e t han l en t - f i e ears Hk'o, phieian who Pecan in practice prac-tice m-dieitit' m:u e I vl j I;., e iii.t had I iM.-oi,al expcnciec m l,.iiulh-e.-. such ois-' ois-' .im' as se, ma to -M'!- adin thiol:;!-, the ronnln. I'xr tlulr benefit Siiri;-on tleneial Knperl ilh.e. bureau if the publh h.alth service, ha- issued a s eclal bulle'.lti ettju m the fa. -Is concerning int !neni;i. ulii. h phy-icianH are asked to keep in mind In connexion with Spanish intiaep7:u T::e bulletin con :a iris t lie follow I nt features: lt Voriii; keutTI,. baetllu iufhu-Hx of Pfrtffer. Sourer- of Inf.eti.Mi Ttie eecr. t i.-n- freni tli-uw. tli-uw. thr'.tt, and rfptr.i t.vry p.-.iK "f e-et or c' enrrlt-rs. ln.-nh.if i. m iriivl One to fmir lii, sen era llr c n. Ml' of tr;itlnii.--i.'l Hv tlir. it . (Mifj-t er in.l;r.'( nn.-i thro-tli tin u. f li:ii..lkT el'i. f s, com i H Liu .m !!, cli;. iia -s ti-nr. ..r othrr ul'Svi! oni;imin:tld ultli fr..li x.--r. n.'na. Hrei'ht inje, ti-m pla v b .tn imp-utntit IV-i.-i of f.r.incir.i--hi!itv At; l.-ic n" !!.- r-"r.-n hrNrs fh,- ,-.o: 1 n e orfaiilm in I'n-rehiilr:it-rT traot. M et ho-! nf e,.ntr.il - Nl Th. info t-d Indl v 1 ( -a . 1 xn-l tii en i run nu'iii . l''Uluo of t.. , h. K rlinl-'il mud-f!at--n tu.-l.Tl..l.ci.-.d f.n-lir.. lM;jll.-n--lti ivol.tli.iii of ihi'.-.-ird in.1l idul i! urine 1 1'- i.iirn- of tli.-Scro:is tli.-Scro:is N-m.-, ii ..-! M i o . r.. orn m -p.t. ,1 . Icnn: urn.; t i-m - ' .n-v im- u re u-- I w i Hi only rutr:at iei-.d. Quarantine Impracticable. Looeiirretit hi hi f '.i. n 1 Ii. h -.elm i "f l lie n-.Mirh. tliroai. nso aud ytbT respiratory p.i-JC'ii. Term inal tli !af e! T!ir.m:li i-lejtntn c -i, irlaj; and sutinin;. rite eajnve is -L-ri-llJ on:si.ie of tri,- ,.. ihl (ioral tiir.isur.-s Tbe u t tt-ni.int ot Hi cae sh nli; w-.ir a kj ji in auk. I'urhii,- i pi-d-rje p-rrtn! Plionhl nvoii cru.!-d af.fiii-hlajtes. af.fiii-hlajtes. str.'. t ears aral ll.c liL. Ihhi. ati. n n ret jrd rh dancr of prorii:. uou eouplat.1: and !ttinc. P.-1 int. t--.-i-e of Ui-' i.-n-Jeiiry to drTflAn;ior; t of bron.-h.-pn. ua:or.i.i, houM IP'S led in ll-Tetii:l.-d. ann ro-nis, T.ne "Spanish influenza." wh.;-h has made Its appearance in a larce mmr-r of t!;e mihta.-y camps and with fatal re-suits re-suits at some p.a.-es. has no: a pp.. ar-1 i a: Fort r-ouirkt. Th.-r' ha.s be-m no in- ! dlcation of any trouble of this srt ar.O' ' the tro"n"s at the lo.-al posh Tliere never hets been an epldem; of this : u r- at the local post, and health and sanr.ary eondi:io,i9 are such that no trouble in th:s line is anticipated. |