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Show TEACHERS CANVAS BIIJ FOR HI IH i, : I., el . n . .r Schools May Be Re-opened Aa The Epidemic Does Not Seem To , , Be Spreading And Those Who Are Sick Are Having A Very Mild Attack Dr. T. B. Beatty Objects To Expert's Opinion On The Treatment Of Disease Dr. Woods Hutchinson Expressed Ex-pressed His Views In Salt Lake City. 1 i - . f k . . . , The teachers of the Bingham f schools made a thorough canvass of the camp early this week to ascertain the conditions here with reference to the prevalence of the Spanish influenza. influ-enza. The schools have been closed this week and every precaution has been taken to protect the school children chil-dren from the disease, and it is now thought that under existing conditions condi-tions the schools may be reopened Monday. It is thought that under the sanr tary arrangements at school the chil-( chil-( dren will be as safe as In their homea. The buildings are well fumigated and Is !n charge of a trained nurse who will keep, a careful watch over the children and if any of them show signs of symptoms of the disease they will be sent home. " . . ; ' x. !Dt. T, IB. (Beetty, state health co'nt-missioner, co'nt-missioner, has issued formal statement state-ment in reply to certain assertions said to have been made by Dr. Woods Hutchinson of New York who for the past two days has been a visitor, in this city. Dr. Hutchinson's view was that the Spanish influenza ia Utah is of the rililder form and need not occasion great alarm, ' although of course, such preventive measures as are consistent should be . taken he said. . '. . Following is Dr. JJeatty's statement: state-ment: - . . "In view of the serious menace to the people of Utah arising from, the epidemic of Influenza and the Importance Import-ance of full co-operation on the part of the public In the measures which have been ; Inaugurated to combat It certain surprising statements attributr ed , to . Dr. Woods. iHutchlnson cannot ble people have contracted It, lrrt epectlve of the observance of preventive preven-tive measures; and that the closing ot . places of amusement and other public pub-lic assemblies are measures In which he has no confidence. "The facts are that It has' been demonstrated that the disease Is uau- . ally relatively mild in character on its first appearance In a community rapidly -assuming greater virulence aa : it spreads: that people should not be deterred by the apparent mildness from adopting early and stringent t measures of prevention; that climate ' ? has little or no influence on the spread or virulence of. the infection; - -that children are extremely eusceptl- . ble to the disease and should be rig- . orougly orotected from possible exposure ex-posure to Infected persons; that pub- ; lie health authorities throughout the country are a unit in their confidence ' injtfaft life saving efficiency of prep- .. ir preventive measures, the merits of " which have been abundantly proved by experience; that it Is no less than : criminal to promulgate the imfound- ed and grotesque notion that notwithstanding notwith-standing all precautions, certain individuals in-dividuals are fore orGs)pf4 t0 have ' the disease or to dlo from' jV these persons being those who are smcop- , Uble and therefore cannot escape?' , "The circumstances compel a state- V ment of the further fact that Dr. S Woods Hutchinson's reputation as a vA 'medical authority" has acceptance -among the uay readers of Mb somewhat some-what sensational newspaper articles rather than among the members of ' the medical profession." Twenty-six have died of this disease dis-ease in the last alx days In Salt Lake : City and 85 new - caees . developed there yesterday, :;';" '; '',,.." n-"-""; Expert Gives His Opinion Plenty of pure, fresh air is the most effective medicine, and, in fact, the only treatment of demonstrated value that has been found for Spanish Influenza. Influ-enza. No med'.eine has been found which will cure the disease and none has been found which will prevent a person from contracting it if he is Busceptible to the infection and is exposed. ex-posed. The only sure preventive for the disease Is to avoid exposure to It. ' The only means of accomplishing this that has tippn fnunH at oil attnt. be permitted to pass uneontroverted. "The aid statements are dangerously danger-ously misleading, not in accordance with the facts, and calculated to seriously se-riously interfere with the efforts of the health authorities of the state. "Reference is especially made o the assertions that there is no cause for alarm, because the disease prevails pre-vails here In a mild form that the favorable climate will prevent serious consequences; that children are only slightly susceptible to the disease and ere seldom attacked, that the disease will run its course until all susceptl- lve is use of the gauze hospital mask. If a person is susceptible, is exposed and gets the pneumonia form of the disease he will either die in about three days or he will throw off the infection by the fttrength of his own resistance powers. Medical treatment treat-ment will not save him. These are some of the rather startling start-ling statements relative to influenza and its aVtion made Tuesday by Dr. Woods Hutchinson, the noted American Ameri-can authority of health ard sanitation who was a guest at the Hotel Utah in Salt Lake. Dr. Hutchinson, who spent more than a year in France, studying tho health and sanitation conditions t among the troops on the battlefront from Ypres to 1 wnzo, and has Just .come from Boston where he went through the terrific epidemic of Influenza In-fluenza In that city, came here to deliver de-liver an adrdess last night before the Bonneville Club, But, owing to the In-fluonza In-fluonza eoidomle here the dinner had i to be Indefinitely postponed. ' Dr. Hutchinson stated last night that the epidemic in Utah was not one to cause alarm. ,-. .. , "You have the disease in a mild -form here." said he, "and because of . your excellent climate, lack of slums and lak of large numbers of the very poor, the ep'demic here should not ! cause very serious consequences. It may be expected to run its course more rap'dly than, in many other places and with far less fatal results." The doctor was of the opinion that everything possible to be done was . being done by the authorities in an effort to check the spread and . keep down the percentage of fatalities .Probably the most startling announcement an-nouncement of the doctor Is that to the effect that medical aid will not prevent or cure the malady. He stated that no medicine has been found that would prevent a ' person who was susceptible from taking ihe disease if he were exposed and medi- ' cine would not cure him aftei1 he got It is true that a vaccine has been developed which has been found to give fairly good results In prevention and has been quite effective in reduc- ing fatalities, but this is so limited In , quantity, and the possibilities of its manufacture ojre so limited that it can not be gotten in quantities sufficient to be of material use in this epidemic,' epidem-ic,' said 'Dr. Hutchinson. "Hence the only thing to do 'is to. take every possible precaution to protect yourself from infection. Using .medicine fnr this purposo ia tsselfsss. . Nothing has been found that U ef-(Continued ef-(Continued on page 8) TEACHERS CANVAS B1SGH AM (Continued from Page 1.) ... . . 'TP 1 fective. The only thing that Is at all effective is the gauze mask and people peo-ple who want to protect themselves should wear them, even in street care, on the streets and other places where they art likely to-come into contact) with the diseate.' J ''J( you get the disease you do not need a hospital, a physician and a trained nurse. They cannot do anything any-thing more for you than any other person .who will wait upon you and see that you have what you want 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 net a hospital with doctors doc-tors and nurses, but a tent out in the frpsll hlf with inmnria hl-ntppttwl h I a mask, to see thai you have water to drink and iourishlng food. If the resistance powers of your constitution are sufficient to throw off the poison you will get well. If they ore not you will be dead in about three days. But you stand far better chances for re-,'covery re-,'covery out in the fresh air than in a ' most modern hospital. Fresh air Is the only medicine and the only treat- . ment that seems to have any effect ! at all. But experience has demon-1 I strated that fresh air is effective, therefore It should be used to the i fullest extent." j Dr. Hutchinson says that only one i person in ten is susceptible to the influenza in-fluenza infection and about mo in 350 in the ordinary run of the disease will die from it. A person who Is not susceptible, he explains, will not contract it, but the. susceptible person per-son will contract It if exposed, re-gardlesb re-gardlesb of what he may do to ward it off. - j |