New Rules To Guard Against Influenza

• Precautionary regulations adopted by board of health to guard against epidemic recurrence• 11,707 cases, 680 deaths, with a death rate of 5.81 percent• Sept 15 – Oct 31 there were 10,624 cases and 600 deaths with death rate of 5.65 percent• November’s death rate was 12.92, though many of these patients contracted the disease earlier• Crowding and unnecessary gatherings to be avoided, and public interiors to be sufficiently heated to allow ventilation• Houses with influenza not to entertain visitors, and Health Board threatens to placard those houses which are noncompliant• Public libraries not to loan books to anyone in family with active flu cases• Students to be sent home at first sign of symptoms and not to be readmitted without a permit from the Board of Health• History of the local epidemic according to the local health authorities provided in the article• Epidemic to date cost city $17,946.72Newspaper article1,