Public Health Reservists Result From the Recent Epidemic of Influenza

• “In the recent epidemic of influenza the United States Public Health Service was called upon for a far greater measure of service to the Nation than it was able to render. This onslaught of the Grim Reaper (to borrow a phrase from the fledgling reporter’s vocabulary) found the country unprepared. …all these measures, however, savor of improvisation, and a newly arrived Martian would certainly gain the impression from the recent occurrence that no great epidemic of disease had ever before visited our Nation. • Resolution passed that suitable people will be appointed Commissioners for five-year terms, to be called up for service when it becomes necessary• Editorial writer thinks it would indicate sane thinking if the Red Cross were to continue aid work outside the call of military need, and that medical personnel would be as publicly honored• Mask use in San Francisco appears successful, but masks have their detractors.• “The commonest argument against the “flu mask” is that the openings in the mask bear the same relation in size to a microbe as a barn door to a mouse. • Says this argument is fallacious, uses example of typhoid bacillus pitted against sand filters, and the 1% statistic of microbial passageNewspaper article