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f respiratory passsgt# of ca**i» or oi— carriers.AH cases of Influents should hi isolated and kept In bed during t ht?In- rouran of the disease People should in- avoid crowded assemblages, street mt can and the llktf Patients shou’d hr vy treated In well ventilated. warm in- rooms, as the cause of death in moat m- influenza eamn Is broncho pneumonia, of or acute bronchitic*.No ot her communicable disease eh which is known to assume epidemic of proportions spreads ho rapidtv, cr at‘al tacks indiscriminately an large n pro ml portion off the population, according ae to the scientistsre P Is not always fatal, but it is always dangerous, for Influenza leads nt to other diseases and where a case Is re not carefully treated the e in always n the danger of complications, er Naturally such a disease takes its of heaviest toll in army ramps. where rr the inch are cn aJo:1 tugrtb' ' and )o come In close contact, and for this sr rot* son the sold era in Ke »pf P1rie timlniiy the underfed (hnnnU sot n diers. ha\e he* n the h* i vh*--a suffer*.er* during the present epidemic h Home dot dors have urged that the n disease ft the result of famine, hut e this evidently is only Iscntr ♦ the t. lowered vitality of those suffer-ng for | c. want of food lessens the resistance of e the pat foul, and the result Is usually I % death tn StiCh rane* i \ case of grippe, or Spanish in s fluenza. or whatever ft is called 1 should he carefully witcbtd and oare rally treated Many have reurhad the lljpolst of saying* “Oh, U Js only a » ease of grippe; 1 11 be all rl«ht in a '- clay or twr *’ But this is the sot? ' t which usually have a '‘relapse** and ' t come clc e fo the point of de ath if; Indeed they do ne t succumbThere fa little to fear from an icpfdcmlc of influenza provided the*[ public health officials take toe pr per precautions and the families of thee i afflicted can made to see (be danger of cartdessness 11Once the disease obtains a foothold;
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Laredo Weekly Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Sun, Sep 29, 1918
Page 22
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