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Description: Grip Germs Page 4
Date: March 25 1915Newspaper published in: Washington, D. C.
Washington Times March 25, 1915 Grip Germs Page 4
ADVISES FRESH AIR TO FIGHT GRIP GERM
“Keep Your Windows Open,” Is Slogan of Deputy Health Officer Norris.
“Keep your windows open in order to avoid grip and pneumonia, which frequently results for the former ill.”
This is the advice of Dr. John L. NORRIS, deputy health officer, in commenting on the prevalence of grip and pneumonia in the District.
Lack of proper ventilation, he declared, is largely responsible for the unusually large number of cases in the last six weeks. The coming warm weather, he said, will greatly improve the situation, though there is not a week during the year that a death from pneumonia is not reported to the department.
“Grip is a germ disease and contagious.” said Dr. NORRIS. “The number of cases of grip reported this winter has been unusually large and to this fact is attributed a large number of deaths from pneumonia.
“To avoid grip shun places of public assemblage where there is lack of proper ventilation. Fresh air is an enemy to the grip germ. Now that the windows are being opened, it is expected that there will be a material decrease in the number of cases reported. Beware of coming in contact with persons with the grip. If you feel any of the symptoms, such as headache, pain in the limbs, nausea, and a feeling of chilliness, lose no time in consulting yourf [sp.] family physician.
In the six weeks ended March 20 there were 160 deaths in the District from pneumonia. The total number of deaths last year from pneumonia was 468. The number of deaths reported from grip during the last four weeks was thirty-eight. The disease was not prominent before that time.