The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-04
KEEP AWAY FROM CROWDS AND AVOID
 BACILLl OF GRIP
State Health Boards Spread Warnings Through Schools
 and Other Agencies.

Kn6 prevalence or Sflp I4l1 OuShOUI the East has turned the attention of many physicians and public officials to the study of methods of checking it's spread. It is admitted by many au- thorities that no definite cures can be outlined for grip, but, on the other hand, the disease can be controlled in 8 large majority of cases, if care is taken and treatment is begun early in the attack. Health board warnings have been spread through schools and other agencies in many large cities.
 The following set of rules have been endorsed by Dr. Cha rIes P. Botsford, superintendent of the Hartford de- partment of health!
 Avoid crowds, keep away from per sons who cough and sneeze.
 Walk a mile every day in the open short distance to go.
 Get plenty of sleep with your win dows wide open.
 Avoid overcrowded theatres, etc., as much as possible.
 In you feel ill go to bed and stay there; send for a doctor.
 Do. not take patent medicines.
 Cover your face when sneezing; dc not eHpectorate in public
 Keep by yourself as much as you can to avoid transmitting the disease to others.
 
 utensils are washed separately from those of the rest of your household
 La grippe, or grip, it is commonly spelled, is another name for influenza, The name Ia grippe was given the dis ease by the French as a characteristic term. If you are prejudieed against the allies, you can call the disease by the German name, ttSchafshusten,' or can choose any one of number of other names that are to be found in the dictionary. The disease is known to be caused by the bacillus inf1uenzae, but methods of diseouFaging the baei1- Jus away from his ambition to become the father of a large and vigorous family have not yet been discovered.
 Nothing appears to have been known about grip, or at least 1t was not dis tinguished as a special disease, until the sixteenth century. It lay rather dormant for several hundreS years, but reappeaPed in the. ahape of four serious epidemies in the nineteenth century. Very few can remember those which came in the 'ft..irties'' and ttforties,'' but the one in 1890 followed by another in 1903 are still spoken of with none too pleasant memories. The epedefnic of 1890 came from Russia, and was highly contagious, and spread with remarkable rapidtty''
 The common conception of the grip is usually connected with a cold in
  cous membrane of the nose and throat This, however, is but one form of the disease There are four to be reck- oned with.
 The first is, respiratory. This at tacks the membranes of the nose and throat, and the respiratory tubes, and has the same symptoms as the ordin- ary cold, for which it is often mistak- en. Ths form, if neglected, very of ten develops into the more serious dis ease called bronchitis.
 Another form affects the nerves This shows it's presence by severe shooting pains in the nerve centers, that is the head and back, together with a eramped feeling in the joints These symptoms are too often allowed to pass, and in many eases lead to certain forms of nervous disease for which the patient cannot apparently account.
 The third spectre in this array is known as the febrile form The name explains itself, the disease being ac- eompanied by a high degree of fever very much like that of typhoid. A good many pneumonia cases result from a lack of attention to the symp- toms that characterize this form. F Then comes the last and happily the least popular of this family, the form. This is seldom recognized by the Iayman as having n he considers the grip. It is heFaIaed by pains in the abdomen. nausea, and all the other. symptoms usually con nected with intestinal trouble. For tunately, this form, by virtue of the character of it's symptoms, is not often neglected, and therefore counts only few people among it's sufferers.
 The main medium through which knowledge of the disease is spread is the public school system. The health department of New York is printing pamphlets and bookmarks, which are passed out to the children, who, in turn, pass them on to their elders. Some of the adnaonitions are interest," ing as well as amusing:
 Walk a. n'le in the open air twice a day. it will add ten years to your life; if you dep't believe it, try it and
 'tKfep the windows of your bedroom. wide open, day and night. even in tha middle of winter. You can't overdose yourself with fresh air. and disease. germs can't endure ft,''
 Hints to sehoolhays printed on slips or cardboard traveIng under the glIise Of bookmarks are, however, not so ex- tren1e. All he is told to do is some thing that common deceney demands or all Of us. The advice is issued in the form of dftty:
 Cover Up each cough and sneeze. IT you don't you'n spread disease"
 This is printed below a pioture of the boards conception of an ideal boy who is about to sneeze. Of course. ina necessary square of linen is very much in evidence.
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