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Camp Dodge Letter |Quarantine Shuts Out All Visitors lat Camp DodgeBy J. W. Jarnagin \Spanish influenza, a revised edition of the old time lagrippe, has broken out at Camp Dodge and has resulted in a strict quarantine being thrown about the cantonment. Only those having urgent business such as laborers and camp helpers lire permitted to visit the grounds and the soldier boys are forbidden passes to visit the city. Something like 1,000 cases of sickness developed in less than a week and this epidemic form of what appears to be a contagion led to the quarantine. The medical staff is giving the matter the most careful and serious attention. A thorough test of throat cultures show that only about 180 bases are the influenza such as began a few weeks ago in the camps in the east. The other cases are milder forms of the grip, together with severe colds and an occasional case of pneumonia. The only deaths reported since the epidemic broke out are from pneumonia. Quarantine has also been ordered at Fort Des Moines and at neither place will any gatherings be permitted. This has put a quietus on nil forms of amusements in' the various amusement centers of the camp, in spite of the inconvenience occa-. sidned hy the presence of the contagion all kinds of training is going forward as if nothing had happened. Hundreds of women have been ' at. work making ga\ize breathing equipment. This is similar to . what has been in use in the pneumonia wards ever since the epidemic last spring. Something like 30,000. of these were required and the women of Des Moines volunteered to provide them. The men use these to breathe through after they retire for the night. It iR, believed by the medical staff that the epidemic will soon run its coursewithout serious results.Dogs, cats, monkeys, or other prospective mascots brought here will pass through two weeks of quarantine —as do their masters. The animals, an matter where they come from, will ao forced to submit to all the regular Lests for diseases before being re-oased by camp veterinarians. , A car-idad of goats, dogs, cats and whatnots sre now in the “brig” for exam in a-I mi
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Le Mars Semi Weekly Sentinel
Le Mars, Iowa, US
Fri, Oct 18, 1918
Page 3
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Robert S.
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