Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-12-12 | Page 10 | Doctors Disagree on Regulating Influenza

DOCTORS DISAGREE Oil REGULATING INFLUENZA Masks and Vaccine Rapped and Praised by U. S. I Health Officers. I By Associated Press. rmCAOo. Dec 12. -The reports of Influenza committees to the closlns; I session of the American Public Health association meeting- today brouKht out widely dlverjrrnt views about preventive preven-tive measures, with the chief dispute between health officers from large cities and those from rural communities communi-ties Health I 'omniiRsioner Ir. J. K. Inches of tetrdt the argument against closing public meetings, theatres, thea-tres, schools and stores. He ridiculed the use of maks as not a feasible measure in I line cities On the other hand, Ir. .1 A. Hyne of t'harleMon. S ; lr. M J. Klan-nigan Klan-nigan of Kichmond. Va.; I r. W. R. Stokes of Baltimore, and Ir. W. K. Moore of Sioux Full. H. I. held thai clofune; public nieetinjrs in rural districts dis-tricts is eff caeious. lr. W. li. i 'ark -t the committee on vaccines said In that report that the disease was due to n undetermined undeter-mined orirarlsm and that the dominating dominat-ing -ariety of the tirRanism differs ac-cord ac-cord in t to various locallt iea. His report re-port condemned the tndis riminaie use ft stock "vaccine" and held that the acctne should be used only in controlled con-trolled cast's until Its efficacy could tw' established. . He admitted that the most nenerally used form of vaecipe .offered some protection against the secondary stages of Influenza, nut little lit-tle against the mild form of th disease, dis-ease, and added that the vaccine generally gen-erally had not been used until the peak of the disease, thus proving little lit-tle Frederick I Hoffman of Newark. N J . reporting for the committee on ttl statistics, said nearl 4A H had died in this country during ths past thre months and that they were Vhicfly men between 2 and 40 years old.