The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-12-19

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the advisability of closing schools for
this influenza does not exist
DR.. James w. Inches, health COM
missioner of Detroit, Michigan. said
regarding masks that they were pure
fakes" as means of halting influenza
and declared that the closing of mo-
ton picture theatres, churches, etc ),
had not proved to be Of benefit.
The San Francisco Bulletin of last
Tuesday contains comprehensive
article, quoting many medical men of
highest prominence. We copy a small
part
DR.. Woods Hutchinson of Boston,
on a recent visit to California, said
the closing of all public meeting
places was "a relic of barbarism,"
with no value whatever.
DIR. C. F. Buckley of San Francisco
said: "The meshes of mask are am
ply sufficient to admit million sec
ond of the microbes without ever hav-
ing touched thread at all. The mask
so far as it goes, interferes with the
breathing of the individual. There
fore it lowers the vitality and is not
only useless, but absolutely harmful. >"
Surgeon -Geenral Rupert Blue of the
United States public health service
4 90 @1,N
agreement as to causes, no specific
preventive has yet been authoritative
ly. announced. The coming of cold
and inclement weather will cause dis
ease to appear in some places. There
is practically nothing that can be done
to prevent its spread unless it be to
build an exceptionally high Chinese
wall around places where it exists"
In the city of Washington DR.. H. F.
True, after returning from San Fran
cisco, where he had gone at the re-
quest of the mayor of Washington to
study methods, submitted report
against wearing influenza masks.
According to Sacramento newspa-
pers, the report of the California State
board of health will say that the epi-
demic comes and goes, masks or no
masks, just about the same in one
town as in another, except that in
those where masks have been worn
the disease, for some reason, has been
more virulent!"
The Sacramento Bee refers to the
use of masks as "a farce"
The Los Angeles Times. after thor
has this to say: After seven weeks
of experimentation, no one can say,
be he professional expert or unread
layman, that the wearing of a single
mask, the closing OF single theatre,
the prohibition of the call to prayer,
or the concentration of our thoughts
upon the flu has averted single case
of the disease or saved a single life!
The real sufferers are the men and
women whose incomes have been
stopped, whose businesses have been
all but ruined"
DR.. E. E. Kennedy, secretary of the
Colorado State board of health, de-
clares that "the mask has proved in
effective in Denver" This report is in
line with word from other sections of
the United Sttaes to the effect that
increased cases came where enforced
wearing of masks had been tried.
The health board of New York con-
sidered the matter of mask wearing,
but did not adopt it. In New Orleans
the same course was taken. In both
places leading doctors opposed the
idea.
The Salt Lake Tribune says: yes
terday Salt Lake physicians went on
record as following in the footsteps
of leading health authorities of the
United States in their condemnation
of the use of the muzzle as likely to
become a positive menace"
Dr. ]. N. Hurry, State health COM
missioner of Indiana, says: Masks
are useless, deleterious and unneces-
sary" DR.. Hurty's opinion carries
great weight from the fact that he is
a health official of national reputation
and an authority on public health.
DR.. f. L. Kelly. in charge of the
State psychological laboratory at the
University of California, reports that
the influenza bacillus has not yet been