Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-10-15
NO PUBLIC
MEETINGS NOW
COUNTY PHYSICIAN FRY is SENT
ORDER BY THE STATE BOARD
OF HEALTH
LOCAL SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED
Would Prevent Severe Epidemic In
Boundary County

On account of the spreading of
Spanish influenza in the west after a
several weeks visit in the east and
an appearance of the disease in some
parts of Idaho, the state health board
on Wednesday, issued orders to all
after Thursday stringent restrictions
against the congregating of crowds in
places of public amusement or as
semblage. The following wire was
received by DR.. h. +. Fry, county
physician, Wednesday afternoon from
Mr.. Biwer, secretary of the state
board of health
state board of health directs Won
to in form mayors OF cities and chair
man board of village trustees in your
county that because of Spanish in
fiuenza all public asseihbages and
places of amusement excepting private
and public schools be prohibited from
operation on and after Thursday, Oc-
tober 10, until further notice. Let
ter of verification follows. You are
directed to secure compliance with
this order"
Dr. Fry Immediately notified S. e.
Henry, chairman of the board of viii
lage trustees and Mr.. Henry issued an
order in compliance with the instruc-
tions of the state health board. Con-
sequently the Amazon theater is now
closed, there were no church services
Sunday and the pool rooms are closed
except for the sale of tobaccos. cand-
les, etc. No lettering in these places
OF business are permitted. The school
trustees OF Independent School Dis
trict No. on Wednesday night de-
cided that the schools of the district
should be closed until the danger of
an epidemic is. passed Dr. Fry re-
ported that there were possibly so
cases of influenza, in a mild form. in
the county and advised against clos
ing the schools, stating that the stud
ents could be better watched in the
school rooms and be given medical
treatment at the first sign of disease
The schools OF District No. IA were
also closed on Friday
The government public health SER
vice has sent out a pamphlet on the
disease which has already been given
the nickname of the flu" The re-
port states that the disease is highly
contagious and is passed from the
nose ana mouth mucous and is partic-
ularly serious in crowded and ill-ven-
tllated quarters. Fresh air. exercise
and careful diet are its best preven-
tauves. In most cases a person TAX
en- SICK with influenza feels ill rather
suddenly. He feels weak, has pains
In the eyes, ears, bead or back and
may De sore all over. Many patients
feel dizzy some vomit. Most patients
complain of feeling chilly and with
this comes fever in which the temp
erature rises to 100 or 104. In most
cases the pulse remains relatively
slow.
In appearance one is struck by the
fact that the patient looks sick. His
eyes and the inner side of his eyeIids
may be slightly "blood-shot" or CON
gested" as the doctors say There
may be running from the nose and
there may be some coughing. These
signs of a cold may not be marked.
nevertheless the patient looks and he
feels very sick.
In addition to the appearance and
the symptoms already described, ex-
animation of the patients blood may
aid the physician in recognizing
Spanish influenza" for il has been
found that in this disease the number
of white corpuscles shows little or no
increase above the normal 1t is
possible that the laboratory investi-
cations now being made through the
national research council and the T.
s. hygenic laboratory will furnish
more certain way in which individual
cases of this disease can be recog-
lnized.
three to four days and the patient re-
covers. But while the proportion of
deaths in the present epidemic has
Igenerally been low. in some places the
outbreak has been severe and deaths
have been numerous. When death oc-
urs it is usually the result of a COM
, plication.
| Psychologists who have studied
| influenza epidemics in the past have
} found in many of the cases a very
} small rod-shaped germ. called after
2 its discoverer. Pfeiffer's bacillus. In
other cases of apparently the same
t kind of disease there were found pneu-
! mococci. the germs of lobar pneumon-
5 ia. Still others have been caused by
streptococci and by other germs with
long names.
No matter what particular kind of
germ causes the epidemic, it is now
= believed that influenza is spread from
4 person to person, the germs being car
= ried with the air along with very small
. droplets of mucous, expelled by cough
{ ing or sneezing, by forceful talking,
= and the like by one who already has
the germs of the disease. They may
. also be carried about in the air in the
I form of dust coming from dried nue.
e Gus, from coughing and sneezing, or
I from careless people who spit on the
j floor and on the side walk AS in
( most other catching diseases. a per-
5 son who has only mild attack of the
: disease himself may give very severe