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Show Bi W LESSONS OF THE INFLUENZA Bl ''B now generally realized that the ' K'3 'tepideriiic of Spahish' influenza is one of rt Kl 1 ' the mqst4 serious calamities that, ever H:- C bef ell Jhis country. . We had .been bqast- Kf $' ingh6w;dur soldiera.wee riot going to Bp g -suffer from." disease as in earlier wars. m, , v"6 had learned. better how to caret for K?r f t thejh. But i is now seen we did not know I'jv f it all. Also, if the country gets through mm V -thisepideimc without 100,000 deaths, it , "will escape better than how seems likely. HC ', Somq 'medical authoritFes think this H,t, '','" ' fatal result could not have been helped, H S.; :sincethe beginning of the disease can h " -not have been helped since the beginning B w-r ofthe disease can not be distinguished K :. rom a common cold. R, ( However, a great many people have h;i :' leen very careless. The story is told of Hp ' one lady who was out on her porch one -day talking with her neighbors. "Don't pi -ome near me," she said; "or I will give l I you this awful cold I've got . But I'm go- H -;'.'! ing out for a nice long ride this afternoon' m l, thatwillbreakitup." She did go out on K j the ride. ,but after sho got home she had k -k a-severe chill; arid in a few days she was B.3p The .management of one large factory H' "ina town where the disease has prevailed t' showed how it can be handled. The own- B ! crs were no doubt moved both By gener- j osity to their help, and by the feeling that B 3t was poor business to let the disease get 1' ' a-start. They provided .doctors and nurs-;. nurs-;. 1 , es, and when one of their "employes , got U . he influenza, they sent horn rght home, iliiWrl WW- iiB "if ' Hf m ' and had a doctor and nurse call. The samething was done when members of the families of the help were taken sick. As a result not one death was reported in all the 2,000 families connected with that mill. If that policy could be followed everywhere, the Influenza would not be very fatal. Of course the shortage of doctors and nurses has aggravated the situation. After Af-ter our medical forces get back from France the danger will be less. in ki to |