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Show u. s. health service issues warnimj Increase in All Respiratory Diseases Dis-eases After the Influenza ' Epidemic Probable. Influenza Expected to Lurk for Months. How to Guard Agalnct Pneumonia. Common Colds Highly Catching Importance Im-portance of Suitable Clothing Cculcl . 6avo 100.000 Llvet, V Washington, D. C With the subsidence subsid-ence of the epidemic of Influenza the attention of health oftlcors Is directed to pneumonia, bronchitis and other diseases ot the respiratory system which regularly cause n largo number of deaths, especially during the winter season. According to Rupert Blue, Surgeon General of the United 1'tntes Public Health Service, tlicse diseases will be especially prevalent till winter win-ter unless ,tl;o people arq particularly, careful to obey hcnlth.lnstructUms. ''The present epidemic,'' saM Surgeon Sur-geon General Blue, "lina tnusht by bit ter experience how readily a condition beginning apparently as a slight cold may go on. to pneumonia nad death. Although tho worst ol the epidemic is over, there wllloutluue to be a .largo number of scattered -cases, many "of " them mild and carecngnlzcd,- whtoli jwjil be danger spots to be,,gunrdod against" The Surgeon Ger.cral likened the present sltua'.lou to that after a fcfeot Are, saying, VNo flpc chcfwho. understands his business stops playing the hose on the charred debris ns soon i as tho nnmes nud visible tWImve disappeared. dis-appeared. On the contrary, he con-, con-, tlnues the water for hours end even , days, for he knows that thero Is danger dan-ger of the fire rekindling from smoldering smol-dering embers." I "Then you fenr another outbreak of Influenza?" he was asked. "Not necessarily neces-sarily another large epidemic," said the Surgeon General, "hut unless the people learn to realize the seriousness of (ho danger they will he compelled to pay n heavy death toll fiom pneumonia pneumo-nia nnd other rerplratory discuses. ; L I Commsn CoIJs Hlolily Catching, i ''it Is encouraging to observe that people nre beginning tn learn that or-! dlnary coughs nnd colds nre hlrhly ;calchlug,nnd tire spiend from persen to person by means of droplets of germ laden mucus. .Such droplets are sprayed Into tho air when cnrcle3 or Ignomnt people cough or sneeze .without .with-out covering their mouth nnd nose. It Is also good to know that people have learned something about tho value of fresh nlr. In summer, when people ' nre lnrcely out of doors, the respiratory respira-tory diseases (coughs, colds, pneumo-t- nla, etc.) nre Infrequent; In the fall, DS people begin to remain Indoors, Hit respiratory diseases Increase; In the . .winter, when people nre prone to stay In badly ventilated, overheated rooms, ' f -tho respiratory diseases become very prevalent. i , 8ultable Clothing Important ' ) "Still another factor In the produc-l itlon of colds, pneumonia and other respiratory re-spiratory diseases Is carelessness or lg-.norunce lg-.norunce of the people regarding suit-joble suit-joble clothing during the seasons when 'the .weather suddenly changes sitting in warm rooms too heavily dressed or, iwhat Is even more common, especially !nmong women, dressing so lightly tha't windows nre kept closed In order to be comfortably warm. Tills Is n very Injurious In-jurious practice. Could 6a veN 00,000 Lives. - ' "I believe we could easily save one jliundrcd thousand lives nnnunlly In ithe Untied States If all the people twouUl adopt the-systera of fresfi ulr Jllvlng followed, for example, In .tuber-cnlosls .tuber-cnlosls sanatoria. Thero' Is nothing jnystorlous nhoiit it no specific medicine, medi-cine, no vncelne.. The Important thing Is rlht lMng, good food and plenty of "jfrosh ulr. Oroplet Infection Explained In Plcturse. "Tho Bureau of Tubllc ncnlth, Treasury Depnrlment, has Just Issued a atrjklng poster drawn by Berryumu, fthewell;kuown Washington cartoonist. IHie' poster exemplifies the modem method,' o'f health education. A fuw years ago, under similar clrcuinstnnccs, tho health authorities would have Issued Is-sued an official dry but scientifically accurate, bulletin teaching tho role of droplet Infection lu the spread of respiratory re-spiratory diseases. The only ones Who would liuvo understood tho bulletin would have hoen thoso who already know nil about tho subject The miw In the street, the plain citizen and tho ninny millions' who toll for tholr living would have hnd no llmo and no desire to wade through the technical phraseology." phrase-ology." V USE shb '&$ ' PnOIHnWjfesr" IMUD1U V fk J I wn V, l nmM WA ' COLDS. INFLUENZA. rNZUMONU, Aftf) , TWaftULOaiS ARC STREAD TUB WAY H , !- I .Copies ot this postor can, bool- tallied freo of charge by writing to tho ' Surgeon Geueml, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. O. V IV |