Arizona republican., 1918-11-26
BEGIN MANANA
 EVERYONE MUST
 WEAR FLU MASK
New Order of Committee
 Goes Into Effect Wednes-
 day; Survey of City Shows Decrease of P Flu Cases

Masks for everyone who appears on the streets of Phoenix beginning We'd nesday morning. November 27.
 No one is to be excepted. the citi- zens' committee says. The order for the wearing of the influenza mask whenever a person appears on the streets of Phoenix was made yesterday afternoon following a meeting of the citizens committee with the committee of physicians appointed at a recent mass meetingq.
 If the wearing of the influenza mask is of benefit to any single individual in this epidemic. it is good for all, say the members of the citizens committee, hence the order made yesterday ana to be placed in force Wednesday morning.
 The masks are obtainable at drug stores for 10 cents each each or may be easily made. But the principal thing, the committee states, is that each person, if he or she appears on the streets of the city. must have the lower portion of the face concealed, so that the transfer of influenza germs from one person to another by the means of coughing, sneezing or too close contact will be impossible.
 Report Encourages At this meeting of the citizens com mittee and physicians yesterday fun report of what had been accomplished was reviewed and the committee asked for further recommendations from the physicians. All agreed that decided progress in combating the epidemic of influenza had been made. Everyone at the meeting was greatly encouraged and felt that the spread of influenza l had been checked.
 | However, in order that even greater progress might be made and the city opened again as soon as. possible, it was decided to enforce the mask order, which is to go into effect Wednesday. | The downtown district of Phoenix Is being cleaned more thoroughly than it has been for years. Besides carefully washing the pavements and sidewalks. there has been a cleaning of the spaces ] between the sidewalks and the build l ings where so much germ laden filth is | declared to have accumulated. In City 612 Cases
 Notices have been served on every place of business in Phoenix giving the largest number of customers that will be allowed in each store at one time in addition to the clerks and proprietors Special officers are detailed to see that there are no violations of these orders
 A survey of the city is made each day to learn the exact number of influenza cases existing. The survey of yester- day, completed at 5 o'clock, showed the following number of cases, the repor, states:
 District 1-14 cases, district 2-2t cases, district S-135 cases, district 4- S7 cases, district 5-43 cases, district I-59 cases, district 7-105 cases, distric, S-26 cases, district 9-53 cases. A tota of 492 cases. The total of patients al the Emergency hospital and the influ- enza ward at St. Joseph's last nigh' was 120, making a grand total of 61i cases in the city yesterday.
 This shows a decrease of 22 in the number of cases over the report of Sat urday which showed total Of o3' cases in the city.
 | Concerning the making of the mask: to be worn generally beginning Wed nesday, the following has been issued by the physicians:
 How to Make Masks
 Several different kind of masks fol
 protection against the influenza hav'
 been suggested, which meet the ap'
 proval of the physicians. They are al
 follows:
 Take six thicknesses of gauge Il
 inches long and inches wide; pucke
 the ends, then knot tape around
 each puckered end to be used in tyint
 on the mask.
 Another suitable mask is a cleal
 close textured handkerchief, folded
 diagonally once from the corner ant
 placed with the middle of the fold jus l tI, 1c tnf
 at the back of the neck; in short, worl
 like a highwayman's mask.
 The Red Cross is making the typ
 of mask suggested by Dr. Brown ant
 these masks are on sale at the variou drug stores.
 It is advisable that all masks o
 handkerchiefs used as masks be laun
 dered daily.
 All Favor Masks
 Present at the meeting when tn
 order for the universal wearing Of tn
 influenza masks was made were: H. l
 Aller, H. w. Asbury and c. K. Pisho
 of the citizens committee and Dr. ] H. Brown, state health officer; Dr. H K Beauchamp, city health officer and Dr. Kimball Bannister, Dr. Anci Martin and pr. w. w. Watkins, presi dent of the Maricopa County Medica society. The doctors were unanimou in favor of the universal wearing c the mask, the committee reported. The following notice was issued b I the committee:
 To the Merchants of Phoenix: The citizens committee request that merchants refrain from mention ing the epidemic of influenza directl or indirectly in any way referring | the orders of the city health depart ment in their advertisements in news papers, or any other form of advertis ing which they may employ. Frisco is Masked San Francisco has adopted the in fluenza mask and is making headwa against the influenza epidemic, state Joe E. Rickard who returned to Phoe nix last night from that coast city San Francisco has had might bad time with the Spanish influenza, said MT. Rickard. Tt was gettin worse and worse, and the city was just about the condition Phoenix i now. They adopted the influenza masl | made everyone wear it on the street and it has made a great difference. T don't know just what the req \ reason was whether it was caused b imagination or something else," add ed but in short time the number ( new cases had fallen considerable. Wherever a person stepped off car there stood a policemtn ready t 8 see you had a mask" declared Rick 3 ard. If you didn't have the none 5 10 buy one, they gave it to you" ENTEDC nItn-