The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-10
No INDICATION
Of WIDE outbreak
Local Health Officer Saws
Influenza IS Being
Held in Check
QUARANTINES AT
FIVE HOMES TODAY
Total Number Of Cases ouarantined
Yesterday 2o-one Serious Case in
Emergency Hospital-Facts About
Character Of the Disease.

Character OF the Disease.
4 total Of Is homes, representing
about % cases, were quarantined for
influenza yesterday by Health Officer
Henry Tucker, and up to / o'clock
today five other homes had been add
81 to the list aud some houses re-
manned to be placarded this afternoon
Each day sees tie yellow labels re-
moved from the homes OF some who
have been Ill with the maIady and
the health officer states that he be-
lIcves the situation is being held in
check and taat there is no indication
of an extended outbreak. No deaths
have been reported since Tuesday
0f the nine patients now at the emer-
gency hospital one is critically ILL., while
others are in q favorable condition. One
nurse who has been on night duty there
is now being cared for as one Of the M
luenz2 pafieaEs. The travelling man
| FROM New York VITO was taken to the
| hospital from the Brooks House about
week ago. was able t5 leave fer his home
i this morning.
Al the number Of cases apparently are
increasing in Bratjleboro il might not
! be- bad idea TO adopt here some Of the
j practices which have been ADOPTED m
New York for fighting the nal8dv. The
following IS from one of the New York
papers:
Twenty persons were summoned to
1oTkyille court yesterday for violation
j Of the sanitary code in not providing
properly eleausad glasses fer the serving
Of drinks Some were fined and some
released On their promise to use more
care, One hundred and twenty five men
were summoned to jefferson Market
court fer splitting in the public thorough
fares. Each was fined 81 and warned.
Ten spittera were arraignad in York
! vile court and nine in the To1abs court.
In Iorlyille court most Of the prisoners
were fined s. each, but those arraigned
IN the Iombs court were held in $500
bail for trial in special sessions Tween
ty-tWo spitters paid small fines in Har-
lem court, and three in the West Side
court"
a list Of the names of Brattleboro
spitters would make an interesting entry
on the court records
Copies Of q bulletin by DR. William c..
Woodward. health commissioner of Bos-
ton, on the subject Of influenza and pnelt-
mania distributed this week bv the
Windhanl eountr chapter Of the Red
Cross, contain valuable information as
to the care Of patients aud the praven-
ton Of these diseases. They read as fol-
lows:
What to do until the doctor comes
Influenza may begin as a common cold.
At the least suspicion Of having the dis
case 90 to bed and remain there Take
a laxative. Drink much plain water.
: Take plenty of simple light food, milk.
eggs. toast and similar things Have
} nleRty Of fresh air. Send for a doctor.
Stay in bed at least Is hours after YOU
think YOU are well Gareies and spravs
are liable to ireitate and inquire the lin
ngs Of the mouth and nose, which nature
has arranged to arrest and destroy
] germs, and so invite infection IF YOU
take these stens-the chief Of which is
: to remain in bed-you viii probably not
! be seriously SEX Go to bed now-llot
, wait until tomorrow Even if yoa dis.
! cover later YOU have only j common cold
and not Influenza, there il no better
:, treatment than to be in bed
Advica to Observation-Disclosures /.
communicable. The eontagion is due e
! the influenza germ. The germ is con
tanned in the seeretions from the Iunes
tlis}tAA8A sl4tlA ist}stt IT Is SpfGcQ GHlGHY
j by droplets that are expelled by cough
! ing, sneezing, laughing and talking Thest
! are thrown out at the level Of the moutl
7 for a distance Of several feet and thea
float for awhile in the air. They N.
breathed in by a well person who may
be near and he IS infected in this way
Anyone having the disease. or who pos
It sibly may have it, should always hol,
before his mouth when coughing. etc,
lcloth or a piece Of paper or somethin,
i to prevent these droplets escaping int,
i i the surrounding air. These cloths. etc
!, should be burnt or boiled 70 Kill TIL
= germs without delay Burning cr boil
4 ing VIII kill the germs.
5 Anyone attending Q person sick wit
= Influenza or coming directly into his pres
ence should wear a gauze ..mask" ove
his mouth and nose. The mask mus
d.