Show TAH Y 1 1 GRIPPED BY ry y r MYSTERY MALADY EPiDEMIC OF f HERE BAFFLES DOCTORS R Concerns Lose for Few Days After They Are Seized With Sickness Sick Sick- ness Similar to La Grippe A ROUSING unusual interest AROUSING A among medical men in all parts of the city and state a a strange malady the like of f which h hhas has lias tan never never in the history of the tho West Nest been known before Is gradually gradual gradual- ly spreading over Utah gigantic gigan gigan- tic unseen hand clutching hundreds possibly thousands thousands thousands-of of men women and children in its grip Evidence of the prevalence In Salt Lake of an epidemic of a. a a highly contagious contagious con con- cold sickness which pertains per per- alas both to the nature of an acce accentuated influenza and nd grip epidemic is dally daily being brought to the attention of ot prominent local physicians It was waa brought out today Medical men of Salt Lake who vrho have investigated cases both in the inception inception inception tion and in the decline of the illness vary Lary in their opinions Some say Itis it itis its is s patently influenza an Infectious and ind contagious disease not fatal In itself f but which causes In the victim fever ever nervous prostration and catarrhal catarrhal ca- ca affections Others voice the opinion that the i grip rip which h it is said has been ob obviously ob- ob absent from rein the city this this winter has lias made its appearance OTHERS IN DOUBT i Still others confess themselves themselves' in n nI doubt as to just exactly what can cant I be t m e the classification of the disease I which now has spread not only in all allI parts tar of oC Salt Lake but has reached I through hr travelers and railroad men I mining camps camp and small railroad towns owns in the tho most isolated sections or d f Utah I Dr T. 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I Beatty Beatly secretary of the state tate board of health has begun an I investigation of ot cases brought to his attention with tho the avowed in intention jf of f discovering the nature of ot the dis dis- disease dis- dis ease ase and offering the services o of his department in an effort to check it So far it is learned the disease has not lot of assumed any fatal propensities md nd affects Its victims only with seere se set severe se- se t vere ere pains headache burning eyes eyE'S sore ore joints sleeplessness dizziness and ind other symptoms of ot both influenza md and la grippe In most cases the victims have not considered themselves seriously ill nor or have they availed themselves of ho the care of physicians but it is said I have lave ave either attempted to do their accustomed ac- ac work or have gone to their homes jomes for tor a day or two suffering from what that they imagined was a severe but butof not lot serious cold OFFICE HELP ESCAPE In Salt Lake the sickness has been been most lost apparent according according- to medical men nen in large office buildings and In I places laces like the federal building count coun- coun ty y t building and offices where one man could spread the illness among many I If It IC Is not German work wor said Dr Continued on page PAl 6 61 S r. r EPIDEMIC EPIDEMICS OF S Continued from page 1 1 J F. F F Critchlow connected with the theS I S S Denver Rio Grande railroad but lather r ther germ work But from what j I IS Ican S can learn the germs have done more widespread work than an any number of ups S S 5 The epidemic says Dr Critchlow has 5 extended from Salt Lake into the theS S mining towns west of ot the city into Garfield Lark Ia 1 Mama Magna na and Bingham as well as among the railroad men of the company and other large concerns HEADACHE IS WARNING From close observation of ot more than thana I a score of ot cases all bearing out the same symptoms the victim of ot the new disease first suffers from A blinding headache which settles in his eyes causing the most severe tear brewing burning pains After this has reached somewhat of ot an apex there comes a high fever causing with it doctors learn a dizziness and a general lassitude lassitude lassitude lassi lassi- tude indifference ennui and tired feeling Those so affected not having strong stong constitutions have been forced to their beds where in most cases for two days dars they have lain in great bodily pain Others with strong physiques have worked it is said but only with suffering nausea inability to eat and with the th accompanying headaches soreness and fever That the sickness actually amounts to an epidemic seems to be the con con- census of ot medical men who have had occasion to go into the matter deeply The taking lightly of the disease by the victims however It is said has kept hidden hundreds of cases that In other circumstances would have been brought to light PNEUMONIA LOOPHOLE Medical men say they do not be believe believe be- be lieve the sickness Is to be considered vitally dangerous but that is to be watched and treated as at this season I any weakening of ot the s system stem opens up loopholes for tor pneumonia I Reports reaching Salt Lake indicate that the epidemic In the outer parts I of or the state Is particularly apparent I in n Millard 1 IlIa Id I'd county a a. territory said to be immediately in the grip of or the sickness sickness sick sick- ness Wire reports received here indicate that hat the Eastern part of ot the United States also is suffering from the sick- sick ness fleas One report dated Detroit Mich carried by the Associated Press sa says s 's Officials of or the Ford Motor com- com puny any this afternoon confirmed a a. leport le- le I I I port ort that more than JOO WO men nien have ha been een affected dally b by a mysterious I epidemic resembling la Ia grippe which I I has been prevalent in the plant It is estimated that about 2000 I t have been ill thus farI far I I Large local concerns have suffered j i the same temporary loss of es esit I it is known I In most cases casE the victims have lost I I weight rapidly In some some- cases as much muchas as eighteen and twentY five pounds in three or four days s The duration of I I the disease is said to be of more than thana a a. week S |