• Dr. Kennedy: “The people do not generally understand the reason why masks are used as a preventative for influenza. The general impression is that the mask is worn to keep out of the mouth and nose air-carried disease germs that to be effective the mask should be drawn tight over the nose and mouth to keep the germ from entering the sides of the mask, and that even then the germs would pass readily thru the meshes of the gauze. Such is not the principle upon which the claims for the mask are based. The medical profession agree that the influenza germ is found in and conveyed by the secretions of the nose and mouth, a droplet infection, and that the nose and mouth should be covered by a handkerchief when coughing and sneezing as a protecti...