Service Brought Influenza Here

• “Health Board Gives Resume of Epidemic—Issues Rules for Protection of Community, Operative at Once.”• That the disease was brought hither through the army and navy service...is clearly shown by the board’s records. Of the first cases reported, 14 are classified as home on furlough or having been in the service...visiting in some of these families....”• “Under the circumstances, the board feels it to be its duty, because of present conditions and the lack of general heavy co-operation by the public in complying with its advice and recommendations from time to time since the first of November, to make the following rules for the protection of all.”• Rules:• “Unnecessary crowding or gatherings are to be discontinued, and all buildings...to be kept sufficiently heated to permit of thorough ventilation.”• “Undertakers are to omit invitations to all funerals and funeral services, and to limit attendance to immediate members of the family of the decreased and necessary attendance for whom carriages, not to exceed four in number, may be furnished. This prohibits visitors to the home, other than immediate relatives, pending the burial of the body. A casket containing the body of any person having died of influenza brought here for burial must not be opened, except for identification, and this must be done at the rooms of the undertaker and the casket immediately sealed.”• “Persons in whose home a case of influenza exists must not entertain visitors. Disregard of this rule may result in placarding houses for influenza.”• “Physicians are required by law to report promptly every case of influenza seen by them, giving name, age, and address for each.”• ‘Public library—Books are not to be let out to any person in whose family a case of influenza exists.”• “Medical inspectors of schools and teachers are advised to keep a careful watch over the pupils under their care, and upon any symptoms or f influenza, send them home with a card to the parents advising them to consult a physician; and not readmit any pupil excluded without a permit from the Board of Health.”• “The public is warned to guard against influenza by: First, keeping away from crowds; second, avoiding coughers or sneezers; third, getting all the fresh air and sunshine possible; fourth, never coughing or sneezing without covering the mouth and nose; fifth, not neglecting a cold, however slight; sixth, going to bed upon any of the symptoms and calling a physician.”• “If these rules and precautions are followed, it is safe to assume that we may be spared a recurrent visitation of influenza.” • Total bills for epidemic at $17, 946.72Newspaper article1,