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Show I' OGDEN SEIZED BY LA GRIPPE Not Influenza and Not Dangerous If Ordinary Care Exercised OgAm Is In th" yrlp of la Krippc This was made apparent ihls morn-lnj? morn-lnj? when a hurried canvass of the city ihowpil that hundroris of persons are in bed or confined to their homes with colds, accompanied by fever, high temperatures and pains in the henn neck and body. i 'It Is nothing more than common la grippe' declared Dr. Roy II Wilson, Wil-son, clt nnd county physician this morning, "and there Is nothing in the rumors that influenza has iig.nn struck the city. It lfiKht bo classed as ln-MueiUUL ln-MueiUUL in an extremely light form, but thero are none of the- dangers which came before with the epidemic." In many large offices today there were many vacant desks where employes em-ployes had been struck by the sickness- Saturday and Sunday seemed to have been the worst days and hundreds hun-dreds sought their beds. Three city healths inspectors are among those cauKht In the- not. "The sickness ordinarily lasts from three to five days," Dr Wilson said, 'and begins with a cold, followed by chills ul pains In the head and hody The victim feels extremely nilserablo and although their la a fever nnd hich temperatures there is little danger if the patient exercises ordinary rare. ' V physician should be called when the sickness begins and much can be done In preventing pain and suffering The greatest danger from the sickness Is when the patient leaves his bed too soon and goes outdoors before he has regained his strength This leaves hlni open for a possible attack of pneumonia." pneu-monia." oo |