"DON'T GET UP."

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16377, 23 November 1918, Page 7

"DON'T GET UP."

A WARNING TO UNTHINKING PEOPLE. '•"Wue people will remain in bod at least a week after they feel liko getting up," said a medical man to a "Dominion'' reporter on Wednesday. "Quito a proportion, of the deaths that are occurring aro duo to serious relapses on the part of the people who will get up as soon as they feel themselves picking up. That is the maddest folly. The slightest chill, perhaps imperceptible to the patient, brings on the disease in its very worst form, and the chances are then very much against recovery." Stories tumble over one another in support of the above opinion. A wellknown commercial traveller felt that well one day this week that he not only persisted in getting up, but went for a walk down town, against the advice of those near and dear to him. He now lies at Karori. A dentist, who was "doing nicely," felt good enough to get up, and, acting on his feelings—often so deceptive with sick folk —he rose from his b&l, moved about his room in light attire, and then thought he would shave himself. As lio shaved a chill had struck home; septic pneumonia set in, and he died within a few hours. In another case, <1 young man in the hardware business rose from his bed before he should, and was at the telephone telling his' firm that he would be at work again in the morning, when he collapsed and diod within a short time.