The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-12-23
Big DEMAND FOR QUININE
City Health officer Declares Influence
Germs in the Air-Knows of no Pre-
caution to be Taken to Stop Bad
Colds - Whole Families 4Ailing.

Kenosha mothers and fathers are
sneezing and the boys and girls are
wheeling for an epidemic of the " grip
PEI prevails in the city DR.. J. J. Nc
Shane the city health officer admits it.
Of course he says "infuenza is pre-
valent' but this means that the old
fashioned la grippe is epidemic in Ke-
nosha. This is not the only city in the
state in which there are a lot of cases.
In fact every city along the lake shore
from Chicago to Milwaukee has an
epidemic of the grippe just like the one
that has settled down on Kenosha. In
some cases in Kenosha as many as five
people in a family are suffering from
the sneezy coughy disease. Some of
them just have old fashioned cold in
their head and others have consider
able fever to add to the misery which
comes with the cold
Doctors declared that they are being
worked over time taking care of the
unusual large number of victims of the
bad cold and the grippe but no deaths
from the disease have been reported.
The main fear of the physicians is that
it will develop into an epidemic of
pneumonia. "There are few families
in Kenosha who have escaped this cpl
demic entirely said one of the physi-
clans this morning, and in some fam
lilies that have been treating there is
five cases. It seems to affect both
adults and children and in long period
of practice | have never seen this sort
of disease so prevalent
DR.. McShane was appealed to this
morning for the real facts in regard to
the epidemic. 81 don It know where
it is coming FROM said the health
officer. "I wish I did and we would
clamp down the lid in short order for
there is widespread annoyance as
result of it. Influenza is q germ dis
ease and the germs are in the air In
Kenosha and this is the cause of the
rapid spread. Some very severe cases
have been brought to our attention. |
do not know what can be done to stop
it. We are warning people to be as
careful as possible and prevent as far
as possible the spread of the disease.
IF we started quarantining for it there
would be placard on nearly every
other house in the city,
This present form of the grippe
brings with it a lot of discomfort to
the victim and it is running its course
in about five days. In this manner by
the time one member of family gets
well the second member takes it and it
is looking right now as if grippe was
going to be one of the Christmas pres
ents in Kenosha. Physicians have no
remedy with the exception of the old
fashioned corn sweats and callamous or
if you prefer quinine. 1t is suggested
that it is not best to mingle too
much of John Barleycorn with the
quinine in treating this particular kind
of the grippe and the physician s pre-
scription will probably be better than
home treatment in this case.
Up in Milwaukee it is declared that
there are more than forty thousand
people suffering with grippe and all
along the shore of the lake the people
are catching it fast. 1t is just probable
that the unusual weather conditions of
the summer and fall may have had
something to do with the development
Of the germs of influenza in such large
quantities.