The Arizona copper camp., 1919-09-13
CLEAN Up AND
GET READY To
FIGHT THE Flu
Cleanliness of Community
Big Factor in Warding Of
Disease; Build Up Your
Reservoir of Resistivity
Is Good Advice.

Evidently, the man who wrote about
the rare days Of June, then, if ever,
come perfect days" never lived in Arl
zona. Our perfect days come in Sep
tember, at least, the beginning of
them. And now that they are here.
and it has begun to rain, and it isn't
so doggone hot, and the war is over,
and the country has gone dry, and the
/ High Cost of Living is still High Cost
| ing, and the vacationists are coming
! home from the coast, and the old job
! looks pretty good, and you plan a lot
OF new work for the winter, and talk
about perfect days, THESE ARE THE
DAYS. These are the days, too, when
we should clean out, clean up, and
keep clean clean community is g
! healthy community. Cleanliness is
not only next to Godliness, but it is
next to health. They do it in the best
OF families; why not in yours?
The Life Extension Institute and
the statisticians of the life insurance
companies have it all figured out, that.
in all probability, if it runs true to
form, there will be a recrudescence
OF our old friend, the Spanish "flu."
They are anticipating this, planning
for it. mainly because history teaches
that in all former epidemics there has
been a second wave that swept over
the country approximately year af-
ter the first one. Experiences of last
year show pretty definitely that in all
communities where no effort was
made to anticipate an epidemic, that
the results were much more serious
than in the communities where they
were far-sighted enough to see that
i'll all probability they would suffer
from an epidemic and so planned ac-
cordingly. So that this year it be-
hooves every community to take every
precaution to prevent the recurrence
Of the same experience we had last
year
1t is a pretty definitely established
fact that one attack immunizes, that
one attack of the "flu" will give i'm:
miinity, l. e., that person once hav-
ing had the "flu" during this epidemic,
will probably not contract it again; so,
that is some consolation, anyway, at
least, to those who have had it. OF
course, there are exceptions to the
general rule, and it is best not to be
careless about protecting oneself
against this infection.
Experimental work done last year,
with a view to finding vaccine that
would immunize or prevent one from
catching it," has resulted in more or
less confusion and lot of theories,
pro and con, that one may hear in re-
gard to it. AS matter of fact, in
definitely controlled experiments, it
has been found by men, such as Rose
now, an authority on bacteriology, and
others that vaccines did not materially
affect the spread of the cOntagion nor
disease. This means, that, with the
vaccines that we have up to daN; a
patient is just as liable to take the
disease and just as liable to die of it,,
whether or not he has been vaccin-
ated The vaccines do no harm, but
it is a question whether or not in
their present form they do any good
So that, in view of all this, prOphy-
laXis or prevention of the disease re-
solves itself down to two fundamental
principles. Do not expose yourself
unnecessarily, and live clean. The
first of these needs no elaboration,
but the second needs much The
: cleanliness Of the community will de-
pend on the cleanliness of the indi-
vidual, so that primary instructions
to the individual should be enlarged
so they will fit the community.
Keep your yards and alley clean.
! Keep a garbage can, and keep it
cleaned and covered Don't throw
waste material out in the open. Keep
all cesspools and privies covered tight
ly and throw some lime around and in
them; they breed flies, and flies carry
typhoid and many other diseases, be-
sides being terribly dirty. Don't al
low any stagnant pools of water
around If it isn't possible to drain
them, cover with crude oil or kerosene,
to prevent mosquito breeding. Mos
quitoes carry malaria, besides being
very annoying, to say the least. Don't
you remember how exasperating it is
slap at mosquitoes when you are try.