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Show DEATHS BY 'FLO' CHICAGO, Dec. 12 The reports' of Influenza comes to the closing session of the American Public Health association asso-ciation meeting brought out widely divergent di-vergent views about preventive measures, meas-ures, with the chief dispute between health officers from largo cities and thoso from rural communities. Healih Commissioner Dr. Richards of Detroit led the argument against closing public meetings, schools, theaters the-aters and stores. He ridiculed the wearing of the mnskk as not a feasible feas-ible measure In larger cities. " On the other hands Dr. J. A. Hayne of Charleston, S. C; Dr. N. J. Flannl-gan Flannl-gan of Richmond, Va.; Dr. W. R. Stokes of Baltimore, and Dr. W. E. Moore of Sioux Falls, S. D., held that closing public meetings In rural districts dis-tricts is efficacious. Dr. W. H. Parke of the committee-. on vaccines, said in that report the disease was due to "an undetermined organism," and the dominating variety of the organism differs according to various localities. His report condemned con-demned the Indiscriminate use of "stock vaccine" and held that the vaccine vac-cine should be used only in controlled cases until its efficacy could be established. es-tablished. Ho admitted that the most generally used form of vaccine offered some protection against the secondary stages of influenza but little against the nflld form of the disease and added add-ed that the vaccine generally had not been use until after the peak of the disease, thus proving little. Frederick L. Hoffman of Newark, N. J., reporting for the committee for vital vi-tal statistics, said nearly 400,000 had died In this country the past three months and they were chiefly men between be-tween 20 and 40 years old. PRISONERS WHO " ARE RELEASED V aSHINGTON. Dec. 12 The names of tho following officers released from a German prison camp at Villlngen, who passed through Switzerland November No-vember 29, on their way to France, were made public today by the war department: de-partment: Lieutenant Harold A. McChes'ney, San Jose, Cal.; Alfred Ray 'Strong. ! Iowa building, Sioux City, la.: Gran-"l ville O. Woodward, Riverside, Cal.; Ed-1 ward Payne Larrabee, Highland Drive. 1 1 J Bellingham, Wash.; Ferdinand Edstld, " (no record); Thomas P. Evans, Sno- j homish, Wash.; Clair Blaird, Algona, Iowa. j |
