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Show I DO NOT RELAX IN VIGILANCE. From Washington, Surgeon General Blue of the public health service, warns the country that the epidemic of influenza has not come and gone. Ho advises that there be no relaxing of precautions. The advice should be heeded. In 1S89 the influenza epidemic broke out a second time, aftor the disease -was supposed to have been wiped ouL No epidemic in America's history has equaled in virulence the present attack of influenza, and no safeguards should be npglected which will keep the disease from returning when con-. con-. trol has been obtained. It is estimated 400,000 have died in this country. This death roll is eight times as large as th, total deaths to American forces on the European battlefields. bat-tlefields. Our battles against the disease have been on a larger scale and against a more destructive enemy than our troops encountered in France. |