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INFLUENZA A B,AFF'L'ING '
MAILADY
Irich and`' poor, soldiers and sailors, as
well as Kings and Queens, It speeds
across oceans and continents faster
than the wind, and it often follows de -
'finite courses to overrun populations.
•This feature of lightning -like spread
has been recognized for many years.
and the famous Iarofes'sor 'Gregory of
Edinburgh, whose :name sends a shud-
der through those who are threatened
with a dose of the powder called after
him, encountered influenza in Italy
during his visit to that country in ,She
autumn. He first saw it in Genoa, and
next in the 'Sotyth of France. Thence
it travelled to the North Of France and
to'L'ondon; and, last of all, it attacked
Edinburgh, where he fell a victim to
the disease.
In his lectures, Pro'fess'or 'Gregory
told his students that ""influenza ap-
,pears to have broken out somewhere
on the north and 'west coast of Africa,
whence it spreacr not only north into
Europe, but likewise eastward. :into
Arabia, Egylpt, Syria, Pa'les'tine, Asia
Minor, Hindustan, 'China, and was as-
certained to have spread over the
w'hole'immease empire of the Chinese.
From China it returnedwestward by
e northern route through' the extensive
dorivinion of Russia, and from' that
went' again. over Europe in 117182."
2110 more accurate or graphic picture
could be presented than ,that, and no
more need be said about the vagaries
of inlfluenza, except that recu'rrerrces.
are now more frequent, because the
"carrier" of the disease can be trans-
ported from continent to conbfaent,
with great speed•.
Infectio'us diseases are invariably
true to type. Thus, scarlet fever, ,dtilp
theria, measles, typhus, enteric fever,
and many other acute infe'ction's dis-
play certain characteristics whiclh en-
able the physi'ciaa to make . a quick
diagnosis df them. But influenza .man-
ifests itself in several anomalous
forms. Thus we hear about gastric 'in
fluenea, sometimes mistaken for ty-
phoid fever. The nervous system ani
the lungs are now and again singled
out .for attack wiiuh serious consequen-
ces. 'Wiit'hiin, recent weeks the type en-
countered has been chara'c:terised by
throat : in,volvernent—laryngitis 'being
outstanding.
(That influenza does not always pick
'out the weak has been forc,bly
"'brought home to the writer, who has
treated .virulent types •of •influenza
anion'g aegeicultural• laborers who were
striong'o'f wind and limb and the em-
bodiments of vd,goroes ,manhood. 'Why
they were attacked in such a violent
manner need not be discussed, here,
since it is a question that .refers to :the
subject of i•m,meni.ty. It suggests,
however, that the advice given by the
ivariou's anonymous 'medical author-
ities Who write ab'ou't the .prevention
of influenza and any other malady
must not be taken too seriously. Vit-
amins, oranges, crusihed' carrots, mets,.
and all the diets imaginable will not
keep influenza away. To .prevent its
spread every "carrier" would have to
Abe segregated, and the population en-
closed. in glass houses, where they
codild not come within breathing range
of other •hwntan beings.
Neither sex, age„ nor se'as'on 'can
stay the progress of influenza.
Thousa'nd's of ind'ivid,uais may be
carrying the germs of influenza in
their air 'pass'a'ges 'without the'mseltves.
being attacked by the disease, but
Sanitation and sanitary vigilance
have been raised to such a 'h'igh level
of excellence' in modern countries that
epidemic diseases are rarefy able to
make headway against bhe measures
adopted 'to prevent their s'p'read.
But what are we to say of influenza?
'We know that it is ,caused by a tiny
o'rganis'm cal'le'd' IH,aemaph'i1us linlftue-
tza ((Pfeiffer), which l'od'ges in the spu-
tum, in the throat and nose and 'in bhe
upper air passages; but we cannot ar-
rest the diseases progress when it
starts on its journeys. Influenza is i•n
many ways a unique malady, 'because
it behaves in a most extraordinary fa-,
shic'n.
It is, no respecter of pers'ons, for it
attacks'tlie weak and the strong; the
when they cough .or sneeze or spit
they endanger those who sit beside
them in any ,public assembly, or other
places F'f indoor resarlt. 'Their fellow
travellers in buses, tram.s or trains are
also exposed to infe'c:tion, Present-dlay
tendencies which encouralge the bring-
ing of crowds together' under cover in
warm and moist'('1rlom breath or skin)
atmospheres provide the most favor-
able conditions for the spread of in-
fluence.
That the winter season is net the
only one selected for the manifesta-
tion of influenza e!pidlemlcs is borne
out by the ,occurrence of the disease in
va'riou's countries during the summer
months. 'The 'historian .Stickel tells us
that the 'dieasitreus epide'mic of 15229
took place during the .height of sum-
mer, and was of such fierceness that in
the space of six weeks it affected
nearly every one of the European
countries, `sof wham ,b'arely (the twen-
tieth perso'n'was free imam .the disease,
and anyone who was so (free) 'became
an abject .of wonder in the ,pbaoe.".
An entry in the "'Gentleman's 'Maga-
zine" in the year 11743 saytse-i"I•n the
last Moro months it (influenza) ,visited
every 'family in the c'ity,So that the
surgeons and pih'leberoomislts' ('bloo'd
letters) had full employment. In Ed-
inburgh, as in London, the weekly bur-
ialswere trebled. On Sunday, Mlay 6,
50 strkk.pensons were prayed for in the
Edinburgh churches and in the pre-
ceding week 'there had been 70 burials
ire Greyfriars, being three times the
usual number."
Royal Sufferers
Touching on the selection of its vic-
tims, the follawing, entry about influ-
enza is interesting. It refers to the
year 1562, when Lord Randolph
wrote 'from Edinburgh to Lord Cecil
in London as follows: -"May it please
your honer, immediately upon the
Queene's (M'ary Queen Of Scots) ar-
rival here, she !fell acquainted with a
new disease that is common in the Companies, a few subsidised 'banks,
;tonne which .passed; also through the the power companies and a n'eglib!te
proportion of the mill properties,
mostindividualsand ,businesses, most
municipalities and counties are abso-
lutely bankrupt.
iThis•, of course,- calls for delfinition.
I mean onlythat they cannot ' unifier
present conditions pay more than. 30
per cent of their debtsin gold. Actual-
ly, /they are, of course, wealthy, bn s11
things people need, in the, aggregate,
they are on the ,top of the week'',
nevertheless, they are not on the
.verge of being or going to be 'bank-
r3p't•-'they already are. They are ab-
solutely" and :hap'elessly insolvent un, -
der the definition Of the Bankruptcy
Act and by the present criterion of
any oltnderti credit mast,,
II'f there is any (rause—be it home
or speakeasy—in the 'South that is not
mortgaged for four tines what its
rental or sales amine wi'li pay, the
owner had better retire now with a
machine gun than jump into the
ntomtgage slough ,of despond. Land,
neither farm land mor improved city
proiperty, has .any mortgage or sale
value whatever. iA vast majority of the
less spread of the disease .with fewer mtonbgages—and their number is 1e
deaths ,fr'om such after-effects as pneu- gion—are in default with not the
mania, 'bronchitis, and pleurisy. 'faintest prospect of 'being paid•, now
We shall :never be able to arrest the or ever. The vast (majority ouf ,people
spread of influenza as long', as the
"carriers" or those actually suffering
from the disease, continue to spread it
by 'coughing and sneezing, especially
iu
.places o'f 'public resort.
Commonsense rules about eaitinig,
wisely, sleeping well, and taking life
easily may telli to protect hhe individ-
ual against 'attack, but immunity plays
bhe 'biggest part. Unfortunately only e
small section in each Js na-1
turally imm'ur'e. We have not yet
reached the stage et ibein'g able to say
that a reliable immun'is'ing agent has
been discovered, through' in the hands
of some clinicians goad results have
been achieved.
The advice tor ie the rda
Ba' g throatY
and night is •extcehdent, but fesv are
prepared to take the time and ,tronible
to do so. Nor must one forget the
need- for syringing or douching the
nostrils, which by the way is a most
unleam'fo etable proced'u're.
Instead of adopting th'e fear 'coim-
'pl'ex we should flatter ourselves that
we live under condiik'ions vastly"dfffer-
ent to those wthen erutire populations
were laid (flat as the scythe of influen-
za infection passed over them. 'Oiur
'forefathers lived u'nder the most ad-
verse .possible sanitary .condition's. 'Wte,
on the dbher 'hand, are surrounded by
safeguards, and anm'ed 'wi'th a know-
ledge of disease ,that they did not pos-
sess.
are in 'd'.etbit, and not one' oat Of ten
oa'tt' see how he can conceivably pray
'the debt.
The ,financial world: has riot even
.suggested any remedy 'fox these con-'
' ditiene except to 'take people's pro-
penty away from them This goes an
'wt a ,terrific rate. The only active tbusi
ness in the South is conducted, by
collectors 'lawyers, sheriffs and
armies of letter writers who spend
months on end being pained, owt-
raged, silo land as'tonis'hed that
h
substantial citizens, the pillars out so-
ciety, do not pay what .dio'es mot exist.
Nobody can pay, but every one has
a sitting of abuse for the dther fellow.
Every day since April, • 11.9130, ' the
plight of .every 'single indi'vidu'al in
the small country 'towns gets, 'worse.
'Every day ,there are more vaca'n't
stares than the day before. Every stay
bene are mI re deserted houses. Every
r o
day another garage, haberdashery,
filling Station or ,shoe 'shop gives 'up
the ghost. Every day every merchant
sells less than bhe dlay before. -
In most 'of the small 'towns in the
South nobody really owns a piece of
property. The debts • Would take all
the property three or 'frier times over.
Does a 'man awe $2,000 on a Ho'us'e
that cost' him $10,1000 Then as an
actual practical matter, ih'e stays there
at tine sufferance of either the mort-
gagee, his own credlitors or the tax
14ecbor. Ts 'is ,nit °'what is goin
THE .SACKED HiOiMEISTEIADIS
OF THE SOUTH
I will cid the iimpenetea'ble mass
Of &batnstics, opinions, 'theories and
the rest of the paraphernalia of the
professiona'1 financial magicians a,
give.onliy what, as a Small-town bank-
er in North Carolina, I know to be'
true from immediate personal conflict
and observation,
(Phe ,si'tuation in tlhe South is this:
'With' ,the exception of ,the tobacco
whole Comte, neither sp'airinge'lord'es,
ladies nor damoseyits, .not so much as
either English or 'FreneH. It is a pla-
gue in their 'heads that have yt and a
soreness in their stomachs with great
cough that remaineth ;with same lon-
ger, with others shorter time, as it
flndetth apt bodies for the nature of
the disease. The Queene kept her bed
six days. There was no ap!pearan,ce of
danger, nor ndanie that die of the'dis-
ease except some olde folkes. My toed
•of Murraye is presently in it, the lord
of Ledingeton Math had it."
In the following year Queen Eliza-
beth was attacked by influenza, and it
is worthy of notice .that ,on the -1'6th
of Dece'm'ber the chronicler of the per-
iod said, '"Mere deo now ordinarily
pass over the Thamiss, which 'I think
they did not since the 8th yere of the
reign ofKing Henry the VIIIS. "
!Generally speaking inlfluenaa is a
mild disease, and if those who are at-
tacked made up their ,mind to remain
within indoors until .their temp'erature's
subsided, we should .probably have
co g
to .happen"; it is the .present fact. Near
is this the worst. A vast majority of
the farmers—people on farms—'tame
lo's't all their 'p'roperty already; and
those bhat'have not, live the life of
slaves—slaves pure an'' simple—at
'bhe mercy of innumerable people at
whose whim or necessity they must
get out.
IW!hai answer then can' 1, or the
people ,themselves, or any one ease
give these sturdy victims of Provi-
dence, if human -controlled affairs can
be laid to Providence,...
The young man who had been call-
ing so frequently on Helen came at
last to see her father. 'Finally, bhe
suitor evade this announcement: "It's.
a mare formality, I '.know, but we
thought it would be pleasing to you if.
it were abieerved in, the' usual way."
Helen's father stiffened.
"And may I inquire," he asked,,
"who suggested that asking my con-
sent to Helen's marriage was a mere
formality?"
"Yes," replied the young man. 'It
was Helen's jMother,"
"I gave the best a'nswer in nature
study this mottling, mother," said little
Jbh'nmy when he arrived ,ho'm'e from
school.
"Well, I am glad," replied the proud
mother.
"Yes," said little Johnny, "teacher
asked how many legs an ostrich had,
and d said three."
"I know that new, mother, but the
test of the clan said ,four, so I was
the nearest."
"What is your ocoulpation?"
"I1t isn'.t an occupation, it's a ,pursuit.
I'm a bill scoileckor." .
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