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U. S. HEALTH SERVICE ISSUES WARNINGIncrease In All Respiratory Dls-eases After the Influenza j Epidemic Probable.tnflutnxa Expected to Lurk for Months, * How to Quird Against Pneumonia, Common Cold* Highly Catching—Importance of Suitable Clothing—Could Save 100,000 Live*.Washington, D, 0.—With the subsidence of the epidemic of Influenza the attention .of health officers le directed to pneumonia, bronchitis and other diseases of tha respiratory system which regularly cause n largo number of,deaths, especially during the winter .season. According to Itupert Blue, Surgeon General of th* United States Public Health Service, 'these diseases will .be especially prevalent this Winter unless the people are particularly careful to obey health Instructions,“Tha present epidemic, sold J3ur* ‘goon General Bluet has taught by bitter experience how readily a condition beginning apparently as a slight cold may go on to pneumonia and death. Although the worst of the epidemic Is .over, there will continue to be a Inrg# number of scattered cases, many of them mild and unrecognized, which will be danger spots to be guarded against, The Surgeon General likened the present situation to that after a ■great lire, saying, “No flro chief who understands his business stops playing the hose on the charred debris as coon as the flames and visible Are have disappeared, On the contrary, “he continues the water for hours and even days, for he knows that there Is danger of the Are rekindling from smoldering, embers.Then you fear another outbreak of Influenza? he wns asked. “Not necessarily another large epidemic, sold ■the Surgeon General, but unless the people learn to realize the1 seriousness of the danger they will be compelled to pay a heavy death toll from pneumonia and other respiratory diseases.Common Colds Highly Catching.It U encouraging to observe that people are beginning to learn that ordinary coughs and colds are highly catching and are .spread from person to person by means of droplets of germ laden mucus, Such droplets are 1 sprayed Into the air when careless or Ignorant people cough or sneeze with* .out covering their mouth and nose, It Is also good to know that people have i learned something about the value of fre»J\ air. In summer, when people are largely out of doors, the respiratory disease), (coughs, colds, pneumonia, etc.) are Infrequent] In the fall, ,as people begin to remain Indoors; the .respiratory diseases Increase; In the .winter, when people are prone to stay In badly ventilated, overheated rooms, the respiratory discuses become very prevalent, ji Suitable Clothing Important j I Still another factor lb the pro duo. (11on of colds, pneumonia and other respiratory diseases is carelessness or Ip ‘norance of the peopt*1 regarding suit* iabte clothing during the seasons when ' Win weather suddenly changes, sitting In warm roomstoo heavily dressed or, what Is even more c:mtnon, especially 'amosg women, dressing so lightly that i tptsjws are kept closed la order tt jw
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Tooele Transcript Bulletin
Tooele, Utah, US
Fri, Dec 06, 1918
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