• The first official appearance of influenza in Rochester is reported; 4 cases, including a soldier returned from Camp Dix, have been diagnosed• Acting Health Officer Joseph Roby urges people to sneeze or cough only into handkerchiefs• Roby notes that Mrs. Karker, the city’s pathologist, has isolated what appears to be the Pfeiffer bacillus from the sputum of patients; other cases of lobar pneumonia have shown pneumococcus• Roby notes the recommendation of Professor Kolmer of Philadelphia last winter to use a quinine bisulphate mouth wash; he recommends an 1-5,000 bisulphate of quinine in a 10 percent liquor thymolis solution, to be gargled 3 times a day as a though and mouth wash; he does not expect this to be useful against pneumococci• R...