Arizona republican., 1918-10-15
FEWER CASESOE |NFLUENz IN
 CITY |SREP0RT
Stringent Sanitary Rules In
 Force Here the Past Week Had Good Results; Bisbee Now In Grip Of Epidemic

! There was a slight decrease in the number of new cases Of Spanish influ- enza in Phoenix yesterday, although reports from other parts of the state are less encouraging, Bisbee, which had been free from the disease, startling the authorities during the day by plac- ing an emergency call for physicians and nurses, stating there are 800 cases of Spanish influenza there. Dr. A. B. Nichols, county health officer, and three other physicians left last night for that city.
 The outbreak of the epidemic in Bis bee explodes all theories that the Span ish influenza was not likely to visit southern Arizona, and places the en- tire state upon the defensive. Strenu- ouS measures are being adopted all over Arizona in an effort, not to pre- vent it, which is now impossible, but to reduce the number of deaths to a minimum.
 Watch Fountains Closely
 A communication from C. E. Ad- dams, vice chairman of the State Council of Defense, urges that all pos sible precautions be taken in Phoenix to avoid the serious influenza condi- tions now prevalent in the north. MT. Addams has closed all soda fountains in Winslow and issued instructions to the restaurants to immediately comply with the health regulations or be closed within "A hours. He urges strongly that soda fountains and all places serv- ing drinks or meals in Phoenix follow the health regulations rigidly.
 Dr. O. H. Brown; state health officer, wired The Republican from Winslow last night as follows:
 Stop Handshaking
 'I have issued instructions to county health officers to order the discontinu- ance of all handshaking as a measure of preventing the spread of Spanish in fluenza. Prophylactic which we have used here the past week consists of r spraying the nose with argyrol. The l use of vaccine and gauge masks has apparently been successful, for among the 100 doctors, nurses and attendants . whom we have in our hospitals only one has come down sick and she the . day after her first injection of vac Q cine"
 2 The state health department yester-
  l mia report cards, which will be imme- : diately sent out for the use of physi- e clans in reporting cases aof those dis e eases. The department has compiled ! a report of the number of cases in Mar. 5 icopa county up to Sunday, showing 5 a total of 136 cases, with an increase l for Friday and Saturday of 66 cases.
 Have New Treatment J. II. Chapman, editor of the Wins low Mail, yesterday reported to Tn, e Republican on the situation there a! n follows:
 ' Just week ago today, when Dr. o l' H. Brown appeared to take charge o = the situation, survey of the cit, n showed more than 300 cases of the dis U ease, and it was rapidly spreading IS Three days later there were .425 cases
 and the survey today (Sunday) show not to exceed 200 afflicted. The tota
 de&ths during the week was only 21
 which is most remarkable considerin
 the number who developed pneumo
 mia. It is known that the physician
 at the hospital have been using a ne1
 treatment on the pneumonia patient
 which probably accounts for the sma
 per cent of loss.
 "The doctors refuse to discuss tn Y treatment further than to say it is ne1
 and is an ultraveinous injection of
 chemical. Laboratory studies an
 careful physical examinations ar ie made of every patient. Dr. H. K Mill of the Phoenix pathological labora y tories, has done all the laborator ls work, and according to Dr. Brown. th 'e splendid work of Dr. Mills deserve
 unstinted praise, as without it the wor .e here would have been far less efficien lo Wcfk Long Hours oI Not one of our physicians has ha .n the influenza. One has been workin ' with the disease almost constant ie night and day for eight days; a secon ie has been right over patients makin u M physlcal examinations most of his tin 'o 12 to IS hours a day for seven days , a third has been taking blood tests an VI ', specimens for six days; and two othel u; have been in close intimate associate al with all stages of the disease. Fiftee ls nurses have worked long hours for fol ~. oI to eight days in constant contact wit !" the disease and none have been i'll. (
 the 5O volunteer helpers, but one so fs
 as known has been sick, and this or
 came down the day following her fir
 days work. She was ill before receiv
 ing her prophylactic treatment.
 Our prophylactic treatment he T, consists of three doses of a vacci1 " four days apart a preparation mat ' by the pathological laboratories II Phoenix spraying throat and no
 with argyrol solution and wearir
 masks. We insist also on all atten, od ants using ordinary hygienic care" ne borhood, flying very high, and whit e. had come from the ocean side of u p island. It was the theory of the avi;