Public Health

• Public health service estimates 350,000 deaths due to influenza in the US • People try diligently to prevent deaths by war, but as more resigned to deaths by disease, though the latter wipes out many more people• Loss of life due to influenza deserves more consideration: ‘Men somehow look upon epidemics as inevitable, and death by disease has a different quality from that by gunshot wound. Dying is one thing, being killed is another, although the net result is identical.’Newspaper article