Add to ORKG• The Assistant Police Surgeon, R.M. Dunsmore, has announced that previous rains may have washed away the danger of influenza in the Los Angeles area. He feels that Spanish influenza is a version of the grippe.• Dunsmore advises citizens to avoid drafts, and other physicians feel that influenza poses little danger in southern California because sunshine is not conducive to the livelihood of influenza germs. Dr. Pomeroy discusses illness aboard a naval vessel as an example of the affect that sunshine has on influenza.• 30 cases have been reported, and these are mild cases according to Dr. Pomeroy.Newspaper article