Ward Off Influenza By Wearing Masks On Street

• “Board of Health Asks Public Co-Operation in Its Fight Against Epidemic”• The Board of Health wants everyone in SF to wear a mask and the citizen must go get a mask from Red Cross headquarters• Businesses need to ensure all employees get them as well• “This is no laughing matter. We’ve kidded about the ‘Flu Fence’ and the ‘Gas Mask,’ but the influenza epidemic has reached the stage where not only for your own sake, but for EVERYBODY’S sake, you have to wear a mask and thereby help to check it.”• Girls berated for complaining it’s not fashionable; they’ve worn sillier fads before, and this one is required• “If you are a REAL SAN FRANCISCAN – PROVE IT, by wearing a mask. We should ridicule those who DON’T wear them; because it’s a matter of life and death.”Newspaper article