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mU' the city of PWlwlpw IM BUU of fVnnaylvanis.W(j# Practically all th# schools In tha »nay county have boon closed down. Tho epidemic haa boon woroo In tho aouth ao|li ond of tho county than anywhoro olio, ►■pi- School* h*v* locn dosed- In Now »nta. BfVP** Laktwood, Point Pleasant, la-wry taw* Heights, Barnet at, Manahaw-Jity. Woat Crook, luckorton and in ►tor- many smaller placet, tclt. While there have not ao far boon tier many doatha, compared with tho ait-t»e- nation in Philadelphia, there are quite a number down with bad colda. und t 0f there are several case* of pneumonia ■yJiy m almost every villng or town. The E, situation is ao bad in Philadelphia and vicinity that people that .staid in de|. their cottages on the shire till Octo-amj ber 1, intending then to return to the city, have to a larger extent remain-hiH ®d at the shore. Others have come »me hack from the city and reopened their KO cottages to stay till the epidemic subsides.bur ADVICE ON THE FLUK-Washtngton, D. C.—(Special.)— Al-0f though King Alfonso of Spain wae ried one °* the victims of iho Influenza ept-ier- demlc in 1898 and again thia summer, Spanish authorities repudiate any claim to influenza as a ‘‘Spanish dls-orjt ease. If the people of thia country do not take care the epidemic will be-0j(J come ao widespread throughout the (Jolted States that soon we sbalPhear the dlaeaae called “American Influensa.. In .response to a request for definite ° Information concerning Spanish influensa, Surgeon General Rupert Blue of inR the U. S. Public Health Service hat . , authorised tho following official inter-ln What lo Spanish influenza? It H something newf Does H const from ler’ Spain?the «'The disease now occurring la this ery country and called ‘Spanish Influensa* resembles a very contagious kind en_ I of ‘cold,’ accompanied by fever, pa toeofCoughs and Sneezes 111 Spread DiseasesfediC8Ae Dangeroam aa Moon Ow Sheilaax- ln the head, eyes, ear*, back or other part* of the body and a feeling of se-rht vere sickness. In most of the cases the ek. symptoms disappear after three or four sse days, the patient then rapidly recover-to tog. Some of the patlent% however, ge develop pneumonia, or Inflammation ;he of the ear, or meningitis, and many of these complicated cases die. Whether is this so-called ‘Spanish* Influenza la Identical with the epidemics of Influsn-ni- aa of earlier years is not yet known, lis “Epidemics of Influenza have visited on this country since 1G47. It Is interest-e_ lng to know that this first epidemic was brought here from Valencia, Spain. Since that time there have been numerous epidemics of the disease. In 1889 and 1890 an epidemic on of Influenza, starting somewhere in the at Orient, spread first to Russia and a thence over practically the entire clv-llized world. Three years later there 5n was another flare-up of the disease.Both times the epidemic spread wide-^ ljr over the United States.|! “Although the present epidemic Is P called ‘Spanish Influenza,* there Is n7 1 reason to believe that It originated ln H Spain. Some writers who have studied E the question believe that the epidemic■ came from the Orient and they call at-E tentlon to the fact that the Germans■ mention the disease as occurring along B the eastern front in the summer and B fall of 1917.“B How can “Spanish Influenza*be rec-B ognized?I “There Is as yet no certain way to U which a single case of ‘Spanish influ* I enza’ can be recognized. On the oth-B er hand, recognition 1* easy where B | there Is a group of case* In contrast B to the outbreaks of ordinary coughs B and colda which usually occur In the B cold months, epidemics of Influenza B may occur at any season of the year. B Thus the present epidemic raged most B Intensely in Europe ln May, June and B July. Moreover, ln the case of ordl-B nary colds, the general symptoms B (fever, pain, depression) are by no■ means as severe or as sudden In their B onset as they are in influenza. Flnal-B ly* ordinary colda do not spread B through the community so rapidly orB so extensively aa does influenza, i “In most cases a person taken sick HI with influenza feels sick rather sud-B | denly. He feels weak, has pains to the B eyes, ears, head or back, and may be I «ore all over. Many patients feel■ dizzy, some vondt Most of the pa-B tients complain of feeling chilly, and B with this comes a fever in which the i temperature rlsea to 100 to 104. In I most canes the piflae re mu Ids relative-E ly slow.V “In appearance one* Is struck by the B fact that the patient looks sick. His B eyes and the inner sl.dk? of his eyelids K may be slightly ‘bloodshot,* or ‘con-% ge8ted,‘ as the doctors say. There M may be running from the nose, orthere may be some cousfli. These signs ;♦! of a cold may not be marked; never-■J theless the patient looksousd feels very !♦! sick.jjj “In addition to the appearance and : th# symptoms as already described, »J examination of the patient’s blood may ; aid the physician In recognising ‘Span-8 “ influenza,* for It has been flsua*-»JU that in this disease the number of |e| white corpuwfles shows llttje or no In-,JJ crease abov* the normal. It Is posst-V ble that th» laboratory InvestigationsJj now being made through the .National $| Research Council and thpe United States Hygienic Laboratory wtl( fUr-; ulsh a more car tain way ln wflilch indl-ij vldual casea of) this iHnsik can be recognized.’*: What litHy course oHth#edleeass?: Do poopia*dl# b It?! “Ordinarily, tha fevor from; throe to four Vlaya and tha (pattent role; covers. But. whlks tho proportion of deaths in l|te present epidemic haa k generally b*#en tow, to some places the jgj outbreak b as been smere smd deaths ►; have bees ^numerous. When death occurs ft is Hisually theerosult of a coas-
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Tuckerton Beacon
Tuckerton, New Jersey, US
Thu, Oct 17, 1918
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