Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-16 | Page 2 | Chiffon Veils to Stop Influenza

CHIFFON VEILS TO STOP INFLUENZA NEW YORK, Oct. 15. Wearing of chiffon chif-fon veils was advocated tonight by Dr. Royal S. Copeland, health commissioner, as one means of checking New York's continually spreading epidemic of Spanish influenza. Dr. Copeland said the veils would serve as an almost absolute preventive, and that it may become necessary to order everyone in New York to adopt them. Spread of the disease has seriously affected New York's telephone service, and the .New York Telephone company tonight sent out an appeal to subscribers to use the telephone only for urgent and necessary calls, asserting that 20 per cent 1 of its operators have been laid up by j influenaa.