The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-19
FLU is ABATING

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total reports today of the new cases
appearing Friday will reach the 1000
mark.
.aThe cold and rain may cause a
Jump" said DR.. j. j. Sippy, eptdem1-
ologist for the board of health. We
can preach fresh air until we are
black in the face and still when there
comes a cold snap or rain a lot of
people close up their windows and
doors and do the very thing that helps
the influenza.
.eThe health officials and physicians
generally report thct there is a
marked decrease in the virulence of
the disease now. This does not re-
-duce the number of cases but does re-
duce the death rate from the disease
DR.. Crumbine reported the condi-
tons in the state Friday afternoon in
the following letter, which was APP
proved and became general order
when it was signed by the governor:
Tho New Order.
"while conditions relating to the
epidemic in influenza thruout the
state are on the whole. I believe,
somewhat improved, yet they are not
sufficiently improved to warrant the
lifting of the statewide closing order.
Therefore the public safety demands
that the closing order be continued
for at least another week or until the
lives and health of the people may
not be seriously menaced by a re-
sumption of normal conditions. par
ticularly relating to the assembling of
people in crowds.
ST therefore recommend that special
public sales on the farms be permitted
if conducted under the following con-
ditions, viz: that all sales be held out
in the open; that no food or lunches
be served or common drinking cups
be used; and that only persons having
business at the sale as purchasers be
permitted to attend.
Close All Pool Halls.
st further recommend that all pool
halls be closed excepting for the sale
of cigars or other similar articles and
that soft drink establishments be.
prohibited except upon the following
conditions: that all glasses, spoons,
and other utensils be sterilized with
actual boiling water or live steam,
or in lieu thereof, that soft drinks be
served in paper cups to be used but
the one time.
an order to put this prohibition
into effect, I would recommend that
all local health officers, police Off
GERS and sheriffs of the state be called
upon to see that this order is enforced
during the statewide closing period.
Sections 1922 and 1928 of the Re
vised Statutes of 1915 provide ample
authority for the state board of health
to promulgate such regulations for
the prevention and obstruction of the
| introduction or spread of disease to or
within the state This order is. there
fore, officially promulgated under the
above sections, subject to your ap
prevail"
After Effects Dangerous.
The sickness and deaths from pneu-
monia caused by the epidemic in Kan
sas are not the worst features of the
disease, according to Doctor Crumbins.
The real danger is that tuberculosis
Doctor Crumbine issued today spe-
| cial warning to the people of the
| state. The warning said:
The epidemic of influenza now
prevalent thruout Kansas and the
country at large is serious in it's eff
fects, but in itself influenza is not
deadly. 1t is pneumonia and tuber-
culosis following an attack, of influ-
enza that becomes really dangerous to
| life.
| Unless care be taken the present
influenza epidemic may be expected
to be followed by a. greatly increased
death rate from tuberculosis.
ANY disease affecting the respira-
| tory tract, such as Spanish influenza,
has tendency to light up any tuber-
| culous infection that might have been
lying dormant. Any person who fails
| to recover promptly from an attack of
| Spanish influenza should be very care
| full. If such person should find a lit
tie rise in temperature, 80 or above, in
the afternoon, with subnormal tenn
perature, 80 or below. in the morn
ing, such person should suspect tuber-
culosis, and should at once have a
thoro examination of the lungs by the
family physician, or a specialist"