Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-05 | Page 15 | Health Inspector Issues a Warning as to Spanish Influenza Attack in Ogden

HEALTH INSPECTOR ISSUES A WARNING AS TO SPANISH INFLUENZA ATTACK IN OGDEN I I In an interview this morning -with Inspector George Shorten of the Public Pub-lic Health Department, Mr. Shorten wished it to be very clearly 'understood 'under-stood that at the present time there is no need for any panic regarding the presence of Spanish influenza, in the city of Ogden, but after visiting with Dr. Beatty of the State Board of Health yesterday at Salt Lake, he is determined to carry out the plans laid down at thai conference, and asks for the loyal and willing support of the whole populace in order that Ogden may be saved from a serious visitation visita-tion of this troublesome complaint, Mr. Shorten asks particularly that the following instructions be closely followed by all: Spanish Influenza "On appearance of the first symptoms, symp-toms, which consist of chilliness and general discomfort, quickly followed by fever and severe aching, the person per-son affected should immediately go to bed. By so doing, he will very much lessen the dangerous complication of pneumonia which is otherwise liable to follow, and also will avoid communicating communi-cating the disease to others. "For treatment, a physician should be consulted, or if the advise of a phy-1 phy-1 sician is not available, a large dose of physic and hot drinks may be taKen with, benefit. To alleviate the pain and fever, a ten -grain dose of Dovers powder or several five -grain doses of aspirin two hours apart is useful. 'All discharges from the nose and mouth should be destroyed and the mouth should be covered when sneezing sneez-ing or coughing. "To prevent taking the disease, public pub-lic gatherings should be avoided on account of the added liability of coming com-ing in contact with a person having the disease. To increase the resistance resis-tance of the body to the invasion of the germs of the disease with which it may come in contact, living rooms should be well ventilated, over-heat- J ing should be avoided and the general : health promoted in overy possible, wav." At The Hospital With regard to the report in a morning mor-ning contemporary that there aro seven sev-en cases of this disease among nurses of the Dee hospital, the Standard is authorized to state that such is not the case; that at the present time only one nurse at the hospital is suffering from what the doctor believes to be Spanish Span-ish influenza; that other nurses in the institution have suffered from bad colds which he cannot attest as being Spanish influenza at all. Up to Thursday, Thurs-day, as the Standard knows because on" Thursday morning a message was sent to the hospital Relevant to this matter, there was no case of the disease. dis-ease. False reports with regard to this matter are bound to work a great deal of harm to the institution, causing many people who have great need to present themselves there for treatment to stay away in dread of catching the disease. The hospital authorities as- . sen, in the strongest possibly way, that there is absolutely no danger at all facing any patient in the hospital, or any one who has need to go there, since the isolation of the one possible J case and the extreme care being taken precludes the possibility of harm to1 others. Cases Reported Several cases of the disease were reported to the health department just before noon. A breezy optimist of good health and sound mind offers the following suggestion: "Go J.o the drug store, buy 35 cents worth of Glyco-Thymoline, put it in your atomizer, half and half with warm water, and, if you have a cold, shoot it into the nose and throat, and treat a cold as a real thing and Spanish Span-ish influenza can not come near you."