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' t. S. HEALTH SERVICE !|
ISSUES WARNING
k Increase in All Respiratory Disp
eases After the Influenza
Epidemic Probable.
Influenza Expected to Lurk for Months.
How to Guard Against Pneumonia.
Common Colds Highly Catching?Importance
of Suitable Clothing?Could
|8ave 100,000 Lives.
Washington, D. C.?With the subsidence
of the epidemic of influenza the
I attention of health officers is directed
P to pneumonia, bronchitis and other
diseases df the respiratory system
which regularly cause a large number
of deaths, especially during the winter
season. According to Rupert Blue,
Surgeon General of the United States
Public Health Service, these diseases
will be especially prevalent this win
ier unless tne peopie are parucuiany
careful to obey health Instructions.
"The present epidemic," said Surgeon
General Blue, "has taught by bittar
experience how readily a condition
beginning apparently as a slight cold
may go on to pneumonia and death.
Although the worst of the epidemic Is
oxer, there will continue to be a large
" number of scattered cases, many of i
them mild and unrecognized, which
will be danger spots to be guarded
/ against" The Surgeon General likened
the present situation to that after a
great fire, saying, "No fire chief who
understands his business stops playing
the hose on the charred debris as soon
-as the flames and visible fire have disappeared.
On the contrary, he con1
throes the water for hours and even
days, for he knows that there is danger
of the fire rekindling from smoldering
embers."
"Then you fear another outbreak of
influenza?" he was asked. "Not necesfef
sarily another large epidemic," said
W tile Surgeon General, "but unless the
I people learn to realize the seriousness
' ?f the danger they will be compelled to
V- piff a heavy death toll from pneumo||
nia and other respiratory diseases.
w Common Colds Highly Catching.
*Tt is encouraging to observe that
people are beginning to learn that ordinary
coughs and colds are highly
x catching and are spread from person
to person by means of droplets of
genn laden mucus. Such droplets are
prayea inio me air wuea careieoa ur
ignorant people cough or sneeze withr
out covering their mouth and nose. It
~ is also good to know that people have
learned something about the value of
t fresh air. In summer, when people
; are largely out of doors, the respiraf.
tory diseases (coughs, colds, pneumo.nia,
etc.) are infrequent; in the fall,
as people begin to remain indoors, the
^ respiratory diseases increase; in the
*v v winter, when people are prone to stay
in badly ventilated, overheated rooms,
tiie respirator diseases become very
1 - "prevalent
Suitable Clothing Important
"Still another factor in the produc-s
: tion of colds, pneumonia and other re
spiratory diseases is carelessness or ig/norance
of the people regarding saltable1
clothing during the seasons when
the weather suddenly changes, sitting
L in warm rooms too heavily dressed or,
t: ' what is even more common, especially
among women, dressing so lightly that
I'.' windows are kept closed in order to be
L comfortably warm. This is a very injurious
practice.
Could Save 100,000 Lives.
1 believe we could easily save one
& N hundred thousand lives annually in
r . the United States if all the people
would adopt the system of fresh air
y living followed, for example, in tuberculosis
sanatoria. There is nothing
mysterious about it?no specific medicine,
no vaccine. The important thing
I is right living, good food and plenty of
[ k fresh air.
Droplet Infection Explained in Pictures.
v
"The Bureau of Public Health,
Treasury Department, has just issued
a striking poster drawn by Berryman,
the well-known Washington cartoonist
The poster exemplifies the modern
method of health education. A few
years ago, under similar circumstances,
the health authorities would have is-*
pr*'
aued an official dry but, scientifically !
accurate bulletin teaching the role of
, droplet infection in the spread of respiratory
diseases. The only ones who \
would have understood the bulletin j
would have been those who already
. knew all about the subject The man
| v in the street the plain citizen and the j
miUfnno irhft Mil fnr thoir U vine I
Ilifl I tj mil i muo nuv ivti a.v* U.(UQ
v^p. would have had no time and no desire j
to wade through the technical phrase- j
ology."
ft USE
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COLDS, INFLUENZA, PNEUMONIA, AND
TUBERCULOSIS ARE SPREAD THIS WAY
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Copies of this poster can be ob- j
tained fr&e of charge by writing to the
Surgeon General, U. S. Public Health j
Service, Washington, D. C.
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MUST INCREASE
FOODJXPORTS
America Called on by End of
War to Supply Added
Millions.
ECONOMY STILL NEEDED.
Over Three Times Pre-War Shipments
Requited?Situation in Wheat and
Fats Proves Government's
Policy Sound.
With the guns In Europe silenced,
we have now to consider a new world
food situation. But there can be no
hope that the volume of our exports
can be lightened to the slightest degree
with the cessation of hostilities.
Millions of people liberated from the
Prussian yoke are now depending
upon us for the food which will keep
them from starvation.
With food the United States made
It possible for the forces of democracy
to hold out to victory. To insure
democracy in the world, we must continue
to live simply in order that we
may supply these liberated nations of
Europe with- food. Hunger among a
people inevitably breeds anarchy.
American food must complete the work
of making the world safe for democracy.
Last year we sent 11,820,000 tons of
food to Europe. For the present year,
with only the European Allies to feed, !
we had originally plklged ourselves to |
a program that would have increased !
our exports to 17,500,000 tons. Now, !
to feed the liberated nations, we will I
have to export a total of not less than '
20,000,000 toas?practically the limit j
of loading capacity at our ports. Re- \
Viewing Lilt? WU11U 1UVU Oliuauuiif nc
find that some foods will be obtainable ;
in quantities sufficient to meet all
world needs under a regime of eco- j
nomical consumption. On the other !
hand, there will be marked world j
shortages in some important commodi-!
ties. 1 , I
Return to Normal Bread Loaf.
With the enlarged wheat crops
which American farmers have grown,
and the supplies of Australia, the Ar- j
gentine and other markets now acces- ;
sible to shipping, there are bread!
grains enough to enable the nations to
return to their normal wheat loaf, i
provided we continue to mill flour at
a high percentage of extraction and
maintain economy in eating and the
avoidance of waste.In
fats there will be a heavy short-;
age ? about 3,000,000,000 pounds ? in !
pork products, dairy products and
vegetable oils. While there will be a
shortage of about three million tons
in rich' protein feeds for dairy ani-,
mals, thefe will be sufficient supplies
of other feedstuffs to allow economical
consumption. i
In the- matter of beef, the world's
supplies are limited to the capacity of
the available refrigerating ships. The
supplies of beef in Australia, the Argentine
and the United States are sufficient
to load these ships. There will
be a shortage in the importing countries,
but we cannot hope to expand
exports materially for the next months
* ? ? * ^ n/\/k1r IT> f no.
ui view uj. uitr uuiuc uc?.& uj uauoportation.
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We will have a sufficient supply of
sugar to allow normal consumption in
this country if the other nations retain
their present short rations or in-1
crease them only slightly. For the
countries of Europe, however, to increase
their present rations to a ma-!
terial extent will necessitate our shar- i
ing a part of our own supplies with
them. i
Twenty Million Tons of Food.
Of the world total, North America
will furnish more than 60 per cent.
The United States, including the West
Indies, will be called upon to furnish
20,000,000 tons of food of all kinds as
compared with our pre-war exports of
about 6,000,000 tons.
WJhile we will be able to change our
program in many, respects, even a!
casual survey of the world supplied
in comparison to world demands shows
conclusively that Europe will know
famine unless the American people,
bring their home consumption down;
to the barest minimum that will main-!
tain health and strength. ,
There are conditions of famine In!
Europe that will be beyond our power
to remedy. There are 40,000,000 people
in North Russia whom there is
small chance of reaching with food
this winter. Their transportation Is |
demoralized in complete anarchy, and!
shortly many of their ports will be;
frozen, even if internal transport
could be realized.
To Preserve Civilization.
At this moment Germany has no1
alone sucked the food and animals
from all those masses of people sh? j
has dominated and left starving, bui j
she has left behind her a total wreck
age of social institutions, and thii
mass of people is now confronted witl
absolute anarchy.
If we value our own safety and th<
social organization of the world, If w<
value the preservation of civiHzatioi
itself, we cannot permft growth of thii
cancer in the world's vitals.
Famine is the mother of anarchy
From the inability of governments t?
secure food for their people growi
revolution and chaos. From an abilit;
to supply their people grows stability
of government and the defeat of an
archy. Did we put it on no highe
plane than our interests in the pro
tection of our institutions, we mus
bestir ourselves in solution of thi
problem.
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FOUR PALMETTO SENATORS. ing the President's address by four
citizens of senatorial rank static, outState
Well Represented WTien Presi- going and incoming. This fact was
dent Wilson Spoke. the subject of interested comment in
congressional circles. It is very unWashington,
Dec. 2.?Senator W. usual.
P. Pollock was sworn in as a mem- Mayor T. T. Hyde, of Charleston,
ber of the Senate toSay, being es- was in the House gallery when Presicorted
by Senator E. D. Smith. Form- dent Wilson made his address,
er Senator Christie. Benet and Sena- Representative R. S. Whaley has
tor-elect Dial were also present. Thus arrived in New York from Europe
South Carolina was represented dur- but is not yet in Washington.
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