INFLUENZA SCARE

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2136, 15 February 1929, Page 5

INFLUENZA SCARE

MASKS URGED IN PARIS

ALARMING DEATH RATE

(Aust. and N.Z. Cable). Paris, Feb. 13

The spectacle of Frenchmen going abodb masked, as they did in Sydney and elsewhere, in 1919, as a precaution a.fainst influenza, is likely to result from the decision of the French Academy of Medicine, the members of which are alarmed at the growing proportions of the epidemic deaths, which have grown from 720 in December to 1362 in January.

Professor Mnrchant urged that men should wear “a species of fine gauze muzzle over the mouth and nose such as was worn successfully in Japan, and the .women wear veils.

The Academy officially adopted the suggestion, and the authorities are plastering posters over Paris urging people to “protect the nose and mouth with several thicknesses of gauze.”