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Although 25 percent of the illnesses in the University this week are pneumonitis attacks, Bock said, the disease will probably not reach a stage of the proportions of the 1928 influenza epidemic. It is increasing daily, however, and its future occurrence is still unpredictable...
...powerful preventive against pneumonia, influenza and other respiratory diseases may be promised by a brilliant series of experiments conducted during the last three years at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital. Dr. Oswald Hope Robertson last week was making final tests with a new germicidal vapor-propylene glycol-to sterilize air. If the results so far obtained are confirmed, one of the age-old searches of man will finally achieve its goal...
...Robertson placed groups of mice in a chamber and sprayed its air first with propylene glycol, then with influenza virus. All the mice lived. Then he sprayed the chamber with virus alone. All the mice died...
...disjointed procurement policy . . . has resulted in hoarding and freezing unused doctors in the American armed forces. . . . This uneven procurement threatens doctor famines in vast rural areas with the probability of a general epidemic similar to the influenza conditions...
...small cause for alarm about epidemics. Said famed Public-Health Authority Haven Emerson, M.D., to the American Medical Association at its annual session last June: "There are only two epidemic diseases against which we have neither warning of a calculable approach nor means for prevention and control. . . . These are influenza and poliomyelitis. Neither of these diseases is necessarily or otherwise than accidentally related, and certainly not causally, to wars...