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Show Tma , i iw tj, m, h i- i u i i i .... .. .. i .u. Ji m rr-rr SPANISH INFLUENZA KNOWN IPBMMBSSS-era AS THREE-DAY FEVER AND ALSO -I ; AS "FLO" 1 WASHINGTON, 0. C, I Tho following letter, Including .1; ish influenza? Is it something new? poem, from Thos. R. Recs, formerly of Does it come from Spain? Plow can Ogden and now of the treasury depart Spanish Influenza bo recognized? What' ment Washington, D. C, will bo read is tho course of tho disease? Do poo.with Interest by many Ogden people: pie die of It? What causes the disease, Editor Standard: Senator William and how is it spread? What should be H. King has contracted the Spanish dono by those who catch the disease' influenza. According to Mr. Winters, Will a person who has had tho disease stenographer in Senator King's ofllce, before catch tho disease acaln? How, tho senator came to his ofllce Sunday must one guard against influenza? The ' nfternoon, and apparently felt in good little pamphlet ends its message by the .health. He dictated n number of let- suggestive moral: ters and left for home. Soon after ar "Cover up each cough and sneeze, riving homo ho was seized with a so-- If you don't you'll spread disease." Everyone seems to havo a horror of ,vere attack of "grip," and has -been confined to his bed ever since. It was coughing and sneezing. One would be just learned today that the senator about ns popular -to sneeze or to really had Spanish influenza. It is; cough In a crowd without covering his therefore, impossible to determine just mouth br nose as he would to "Hoch ' how serious the case might be. He is Der Kaiser'" being cared for In his apartment by Leland Evans, who has been emthe family physician and Mrs. King. ployed as stenographer in Senator' No other members of the family have King's ofllce, 'has been inducted into the Students' Training corps at George as yet contracted the, disease. "The Spanish influenza," "Three -day Washington university. He will be sue' Fever," or "The Flu" as it is called ceeded in his position at Senator here, has caused no little consterna- King's oflico by Czar Smith Winters, tion among the thousands of war now employed by tho Utah -Idaho Sugi workers in Washington, D. C. Although ar company In Its Garland ofllce. I just called Mrs. King on the phone A tho latest reports from the CDistrlct Health officials state that tho epidemic The senator's fever seems to be gone appears to bo temporarily checked, but he Is suffering of severe headache everyone seems to have a fear that the and general pains. disease may develop most seriously among the congested population of tho BUY, BUY A BOND! Buy. buy, O, Patriot, a Liberty bond I capltol. A number of steps have been taken Today while the chance is loaned; to check tho spread of the Spanish in- Tomorrow'll be late and the kaiser's fate fluenza. Secretary McAdoo has an nounced a change in the working hours Will be one whole day postponed. of some of the government officers in c ' I j 1 1 1 I ! , 1 . ( 1 ' ' j I 1 j II 1 ( I j ' 1 ( ! I J ! I ! 1 I , I T5.. 1 1 1 ' I ( j I 1 j 1 ( street cars and and after work. on the, streets before Some of the- depart ments have been obliged to begin work a.L7r30. others at .8, S:C0, 9 and 9:30 in the morning. The two big Liberty loan parades, scheduled for October 5th and 12th have been cancelled for the time being. Printed literature is also being distributed among the war workers as a safeguard against the spread of Spanish influenza. Today the surgeon general's ofllce published a circular entitlod "Spanish Influenza," ''Three -day Fever," "The Flu." A short compre hensive article Is contained therein untler such titles as "What is Span- 1,.,,. r t -ri 4 i .1 1 Not how much, nor where, nor when; For the sooner you buy, iho sooner your boy Will come marching home again. Buy, buy, 0, Patriot, a bond today! While the Germans are on tho run; For each bond that's bought is a bat' tle fought And a victory over the Hun. j Buy, buy, 0. Patriot, a bond or more! The question Is will you, not how; The day has dawned, so buy, buy a bond Or bye. -bye, Liberty now. THOMAS R. REES. J 1 ! |
