The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-01-23
NEW CASE FLU HERE
Two Hundred Victims Reported To-
day in Morton County.

One new case of influenza and an
other pneumonia case were reported
to the city health department this
morning, according to DR.. Earle G..
Brown, city health officer. This
brings the total number of flu cases
in Topeka TO seven and the pneu-
monia total to six.
Morton county is the hardest hit
community in Kansas. zoo cases of
flu having been reported at Elkhart.
This county was one of the greatest
sufferers in the last epidemic. A case
was found at Medicine Lodge, the vic
tim being a man who had just ar
rived from Chicago.
Eighteen new cases of influenza
were reported to the state health de-
partment today, as follows: Leaven-
worth, 2; Sumner. Z; Washington, 4;
Wabaunsee, 8, and Marion. 2. The
department was expecting information
from Morton county, where the situa-
ton must be critical. with few nurses
to handle the great number of cases
reported.
Doctor Crumbine announced today
that any citizen who desired might
receive the health departments spe
cial bulletin on influenza and its bull
letin on the methods of nursing flu
patients by writing a request to the
secretary of the state board of health,
Topeka, Kan.
The federal government will not
give assistance to the state in fighting
the epidemic this year, according to a
telegram received from the surgeon
general of the United States by DR..
S. J. Crumbine. secretary of the state
board of health. He was told that
there were no funds available for such
aid. During the other epidemic, the
federal government supplied nurses
and physicians to Kansas, but this
a MA TALON m nr0t ct
the soldiers in the camps. Now the
government will leave the problem TO
state officials, aItho 1t has authorized
county health officers to use the teie-
graph at government expense in
making daily report of flu cases TO the
state board of health.
I'VE want to prevent a spread of
the disease" said Doctor Crumbine,
land not have to resort to a state wide
closing order. like the one which
caused the merchants to lose so
| heavily last year.
Here are five Crumbinisms on flu:
Get plenty of sleep.
Don't overeat.
Get plenty of fresh air Sleep on
sleeping porches if possible.
Observe personal hygiene laws.
f! Horace Hall, chairman of the Shaw
nee county Red Cross. has been ap-
pointed state liaison officer to handle
the influenza epidemic. 1t will be his
duty to keep the Red Cross and the
state board of health in close touch.
Doctor Crumbine has the assurance of
cooperation in every way possible
from the Red Cross.
There are two different kinds OF
pneumonia. said Doctor Brown today
in discussing the pneumonia cases re-
ported to him. They are broncho
pneumonia and 1obar pneumonia. The
former usually occurs secondary to
some other diseases. such as bad
colds, flu. and throat and respiratory
infections. Lobar pneumonia is an
Infection and, being contagious, is re-
quired to be reported. Over one-half
of the cases of the latter form are
found among persons between 20 and
40 years of age. usually males
/ The following request was made to-
| day in a letter written to Topeka
physicians by Doctor Brown:
| MANY of the doctors have remarked that
| they have cases that, with an epidemic OF
| Influenza in the city. they would not hest
! tate to dingnose as influenza. If you have
such case, in which there is any suspi-
cion and yet you are not able to make a
| definite decision. will you not ask the
! family, fn the interest of public health. to
maintain the same isolation Of the patient
as tho a definite quarantine had been
placed on the home -