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Show were justified in issuing such orders and enforcing them. Dr. Hutchinson said he would not undertake to set up his personal per-sonal opinion against the judgment of the health authorities in particular cases. gauze mask and people who want to protect pro-tect themselves should wear them, even in street cars, on the streets and other places where they are likely to come into contact with the disease. "If you get the disease you don't need a hospital, a physician and a trained nurse. They cannot do anything more for you than any other person who will wail uopri you and see that you have what you war.t. No medicine has been-found which has any effect upon the disease, so you don't need medicine, if you get the disease in the pneumonia stage, what you need is not a horpital with doctors and nurses, but a tent out in the fresh air with someone, protected by a mask, to see that you have water to drink and nourishing food. If the resistance powers pow-ers of your constitution are sufficient to throw off the poison you will get well. If they are not you will be dead in about three days. But you stand far better chances for recovery out in the fresh air than in a mojt modern hospital. Fresh air is the only medicine and the only treatment that seems to have any effect at all. But experience has demonstrated that fresh air i. effective, therefore it should be used to the fullest extent." Susceptible Percentage. Dr. Hutchinson says that only about one person in ten is susceptible to the influenza infection and about one in 350 in the ordinary run of the disease will die from it. A person who is not susceptible, sus-ceptible, he explains, will not contract it but the susceptible person will contract it if exposed, regardless of what he may no to ward it off. "If a susceptible person gets a dose of the germs in his nose." said the doctor, "he is going to get the disease in spite of everything. Whether he will throw it off or will die from it depends entirely upon whether his constitutional resistance resist-ance is sufficient 10 overcome the poison.". In short. Dr. Hutchinson says that if you wish to guard against infection, wear a gauze mask, and If you get the disease, dis-ease, go to bed in the fresh air and stay there. "This is one of the most severe epidemics epi-demics we have ever had," said the doctor. doc-tor. "It has taken an alarming toll of life and I fear that before it has run its course it will claim nearly 200,000 victims in the United States. H has claimed a toll among our soldiers that Is greater in proportion than the toll of actual battle bat-tle on the front. It has been more fatal 'really among the soldiers, the pick of our manhood physically, than among the civilian population. Apparently it simply must run Its course until nl! the susceptible sus-ceptible ones have had it. then it will disappear as suddenly as it appeared. Robust Attacked. "It Is. a peculiarity of the disease that it attacks the physically strong and robust ro-bust just as quickly and as fatally as it does a weak person. In fact, it seems to hit the strong more fatally than the weak. But it is also peculiar that the malady does not seem to attack children and old people to any extent. It is persons per-sons fz-om 25 to 35 or 40 among whom it seems to spread most." The doctor explains that the bacilli of the disease have the queer habit of disappearing dis-appearing from the nose and moutli of the infected person in light cases within two or three days and the patient thinks he is well. Then he suddenly develops a lung infection that is highly fatal. The bacilli merely move from the mouth and nose to the lungs, he explained, and there gather force for the infection which is so quick and so fatal. Pathological tests that have beer, made, the doctor staled, have shown that the lUng infection in fatal cases was neither pneumococcus nor streptoccoccus pneumonia, pneumo-nia, but pure influenza. He says that the influenza bacilli are found In pure culture and without mixed infection. As for the closing of theaters and other places of public gatherings as a means of combating the spread of inrfluenza, Dr. Hutchinson said it was his personal opinion that it had not proved entirely effective. He added, however, that if local lo-cal conditions were such as to lead the health authorities to believe that closing would aid in combating the disease, they EXPER1RGES USE OF IE MASKS (Ooatlnfroin p'age pne.) ment of the )r js that to the effect that medical ment won't nrevent or cure the ma He stated that no medicine has found that would pre- vent a persor 0 -,5 susoeptible from takine the d e if ne were exp0sea 1 And medicine ,jd not cure him after 1 he got It. Vaccine Scfe. 1 "It is true tk vaccine has been de-. de-. veloped whlclt been f0nd to give ! fairly good rei in prevention and has . en 2V'1; cff? in reducing fatalities, hut this is sAitcti ln quantity, and the po-ssilvdftl manufacture are so limited thd c.annot be gotten in quantities sufj,t to be of material use in this efcic," ur. Hutch inson. "Hence the Mhing to do is to take even' PossioleVcauticm to protect yourself from kon trsing medicines lor this purpo useless. Nothing has been found thk effective. The only thing that Is til effective is the |