Influenza Situation Is Less Encouraging

• A few cases thought hold-overs from Sunday• No cases at Aviation Repair Depot• 6.7 mile hike given to men under quarantine to “stretch their bones.” Hiked to edge of city, turned around and returned to camp. • 2 cases reported among new arrivals at Love Field• “More discretion than valor” shown by students remaining home from school (105 absent at Oak Cliff High School)• W.H. Adamson, principal, says “there is no reason why there should be so many absentees except that the parents are afraid of an epidemic.” Asks parents to send children back, thinks Oak Cliff conditions have been exaggerated • Several thousand copies of influenza information circular distributed among school children yesterday by Dallas Red Cross Chapter: Avoidance of movie picture houses advised, proper clothing, mild antiseptic as nose spray or mouth gargle• Local physician thinks Spanish flu same as Russian influenza that struck Dallas in 1906. There were 40,000 cases then, and not as much disturbance then than there is now over 500, he said.• Rate of less than 10 per 1,000 in Dallas (of cases)• Recommends spraying with Dobel’s solution, or glycothymoline, or at least baking soda and salt in lukewarm water• Carnes: “Volumes could be and have been written along these same lines, but with what has already been said by this office and by others the people have had both warning and instruction sufficient. Send for a doctor.”Newspaper article