The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-12
PERIL OF SPANISH INFLUENZA

in the presence of which the world helpless it might have been a hundred years ago.
 The pandemic of 1847 severely fatal. The pandemc of 1890 was doubly more severe.
 The present pandemic than twice fatal as that of l89O The diseases appeared in Russia where it has usually made early appearance It devastated Germany was fa tai to Spain during the months now it rage in Amer Despite traditional nature of the per although Span sh Influenza had given abundant evidence of it's dangers met American oi by the health authorities of most American cities with lack of imagination, and with lack of statistical understanding. This assertion not apply the health authorities in charge of Federal canonmen In the the nature of peril well understood and the doctors grapped with 1t with every at their disposal. In civil communities the health authorities almost without exception followed the careless They noted the first appearance They issued of softly word cd procamaons asserting here occasion for aam the health department has the epidemic in hand"
 This line of action proceeded from number of motives. There the feeling that if the people should be alarmed there might be undue panic there desire not to disturb the ordinary of business
 But the defect most weakening to effective preventive ton failure see actively and clearly that in every the epidemic must repeat its own history.
 Health authorities instead of saying that the influenza had such disastrous in Span and will take similar here rested the easy belief that the order of nature might be suspended
 When in Camp the diseases appeared with terrible energy the health authorities of Boston had comfortable philosophy and took adequate such they declared conaon had proceed ed to the point where prevention could succeed
 So from Boston to San Francsco identical fail to similar paralysis of action, like indulgence in the SPEECH and literature of precauon without any adequate ACTION of precaution
 In Bridgeport matters have gone precisely as in most other cities The history of the disease has spenddy ex pained The precautions be taken against it terated in many forms The people it is crowd disease without much being done to diminish the crowdng
 Spng is to be avoided Action requires the apprehen- sion of fft sixty hundred piters, that the necessity of the ec8ution may be realized.
 The necessity education by slides exhibited in the thea tres well stated in speech and interview for days the preca6ton was in actual operation.
 Speech without action does not stop epdemics that rest upo crowd conagon It is not enough to say that of roey should be opened there means for kowng that the windows open It is enough to say at crowds are dangerous there must be for preventing crowds
 The theory that the people not to receive plain state mens of the truth in which they told frankly what the danger s for fear they will be alarmed pyscho Ogy of the individuals in authority not upon any the people.
 When the first of Spanish Influenza appeared in Bridgeport there certain knowledge in the well informed man, that there would be cases.
 The time to strangIe epidemic is when it begins, not after has attained to the proportions of known and perhaps thousand mider cases mrecoqnzed and unknown but each center of cOnagion.
 To to the people of city in which influenza have appeared There is for alarm health partment has the epidemic we'll in hand is to multi, tudes to believe that the degree the malady quantity of the danger is exaggerated
 Thousands of and women do so believe in Bridge port and the amount of precautionary effort is cor respondngly diminished
 The people must be frankly and fairly told that Spanish Influenza the most dangerous epidemic has come to Bridgeport in many decades.
 They must be told that to extent the number of eases within their cOntrOl that lacking absolutely the precautions demanded the disease may before the winter over aff one in each three persons at it's Wors each two persons
 If any doubt this statement regard it exaggerated let the 2OOO in Consvle Conn., be noted with cir cumsance that the influenza has not passed it's apex there
 The facts call for the plainest fullest and compe exhibition in order quickest most certa and most effective response
 The fatality of the disease is also known measured quantity varying in different communities according to th condition of the community and the medical sanitary skill employed against the plague.
 In army cantonmens the influenza including the case of pneumonia which follow from it. will in ev cry hundred of those afflicted
 In Boston, where the epidemic has been permitted to entirely out of hand is probable there will sever