DON'T TALK LOUDLY.
x Although influenza, masks are advocated for those attending the sick, the British Local Government Board does not advise the public to make a general use of them. The board's official memorandum on the prevention of influenza states that little can bo done to prevent anyone from falling a victim to the epidemic. So drug, it is stated, has yet been proved to have any specific inlluence as a preventive, but a standard vaccine used in the Army to mitigate the severity and diminish" mortality, by raising the resistance of the body has had encouraging results. The danger of staying at work after the first symp-. tome appear is emphasised as bad for the patient and possibly dangerous to others. It is also pointed out that an infected person talking loudly within four feet of another person may spread the infection in that way.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 10
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147DON'T TALK LOUDLY. Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1919, Page 10
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