CORRESPONDENTS VIEW
INFLUENZA. (To the Editor.) Year after year influenza causes wide, spread distress and loss. It affects our efficiency, our pockets, and happiness,' May I suggest that the Health Department gives as much publicity as poseiM* at the commencement of each winter at to the best methods to prevent infer, tion. - During the epidemic which occurred some years ago the spraying of formalin was adopted as a prcVentfr* measure. Other measures could include the use of tissue paper for handkerchiefs, as these could be readily destroyed. Alternatively, one clean handkerchief each day. Bed linen of sick patients should be boiled as soon as jpojiSS after the complete recovery of patients, A clean towel each day would, I thmk, be another wise precaution—email towek could be used instead of large ones. Those persons already infected should take every care to prevent breathing close to any person with whom they are conversing. C. MACKLEY.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 191, 13 August 1940, Page 6
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