Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 16

THE ‘EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1928. PINCHOT URGES D.C. DRY ENFORGEMENT Mass Meeting Here Asks Pad- locking of Homes Whose Occupants Sell Liquor. A demand that the wet spots in| Washington be “dried up” in the short- est possible time was expressed by Gif- NFLUENZA BAFFLES SCIENCE SINCE THIRTEENTH CENTURY Cumming Says Medical World Fails to Find Satisfactory Cure for Disease. Decline in Death Rate No- | ticed in Statistics on Recent Epidemics. ford Pinchot, former Governor of Pen sylvania, at a mass meeting in Calvary | Baptist Church yesterday of the In- ternational Reform Federation and the National United Committee for Law En- forcement. Mr. Pinchot would have the Presi- | dent appoint to public service none but those sworn to obey the Constitution | and compel them to observe the d laws ‘under penalty of prompt dismi al. He also urged that all dry forces be united without respect to politics | or persons and that the standard of prohibition enforcement be placed on | the same level with the laws against| burglary, arson and forgery. The best way to approach the situa- | tion in Washington, he said. would be | for the President to demand that the | District Commissioners obtain a list of speak-easies here and then proceed to clean them out on penalty of their jobs. | William D. Upshaw. former Repre- sentative, declared it must be obvious that the Democratic donkey is “fed up on the liquor crowd.” | Referring to the last presidential elec- tion, he said: “One thing is certain, the next time the sober, God-fearing people | of the South tell the Democratic party | not to nominate a wet Tammany man | for President they will pay some atten- tion to it.” Canon Sheafe Chase, of Brooklyn, N ¥., spoke on “Making the Movies Moral.” Clinton N. Howard. presiding official, introduced a resolution. which was unanimously adopted, calling for a law Influenza, which dates back to the| | thirteenth century, still baffles the best | ! | efforts_of science to isolate the germ, | Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming admitted | yesterday as -he compared available | | figures on the present outbreak with | | other statistics and expressed the belief | ! that the fatality rate would be low. | 1 About 30 years ago, Dr. Cumming % i declared, it was thought the germ had | been isolated, but later developments | | showed it was carried not only by per- |~ sons suffering from the diseasc but by | The cases are piling up with the ad-| others apparently immune, | vent of colder weather, which could not | Efforts to artificially transmit in-|be considered a hopeful sign. Already fluenza from vietims to other persons | there are more cases recorded than in or animals have been unsuccessful, Dr.| 1920 at a similar stage. Cumming declated. Despite this, in-| “The generally accepted theary, Dr.| fluenza s known to be highly con-|Cumming pointed out, is that the dis- | tagious, and he warned the public to|case is transmitted through respiratory | stay away from. persons known to be|organs, or that it may also be carried | suffering from the disease. | in food, and spread through the in- | : 4 testinal tract. Death Rate Highest in 1918. | “gorts have been made to effect cures The high point among all recorded | Florida and Cuba influenza_epidemics for fatality was Feb. 1627, 1929 reached in the deadly 1918 scourge, when, figures show, 2 per cent of all per- sons contracting the disease died. Com- | plete figures on the more recent out- An Eleven-Day All-Expense Person- ally Conducted Tour—via Southern Rallway, F. E. C. Ry, . & 0. 8.8, All-roem sleepin, dining DR. HUGH S. CUMMING breaks of 1920 and 1926 have not been | fi ly analyzed, but Dr. Cumming, his statistician, Edgar Sydenstricker, and other officials were gratified yester- day on reviewing records to see that generally the fatality rate was lower in 1520 than in 1918, and the 1926 oA of influenza-pneumonia by maklnzfpubllc could do to help keep well. | serum from convalescent patients, and injecting it into persons ill with the disease, but the results, Dr. Cumming said, were not considered successful. Deaths from epidemics have been generally known as caused from influ- enza, but the final disease in the ma- jority of cases, developing from the in- fluenza, has been pneumonia, records show. Although science has developed no “specific” cure for influenza, Dr. Cum- ming s there were many things the Briefly, his recommendations are: “Keep away from crowded rooms and persons known to have influenza. Keep the intestinal tract open and in good shape. Wear sufficiently ‘warm clothes to keep yourself comfortable. Get plenty of fresh air, but fresh air doesn’t |menn you should get cold. Be com- fortable; wear enough clothes. Don't become overfatigued. Do everything | you can to keep bodily resistance high. Get plenty of rest in bed.” The world-wide spread of influenza in On the campus... along the great streets of finance . . . well shod feet choice.. . . For Hanan Shoes surpass not only in appear- ance but in service. $14 $16 (Second Floo~ 1918 and 1919, known as a “pandemic,” caused 13,000,000 deaths, according to recently compiled which show that 500,000 of these were in the United total deaths for the pandemic were in India. ‘The 1920 epidemic caused about 100,- 000 deaths in the United States, while States. More than half of the warld’s|and decrease since that time. the 1926 epidemic caused between 15,000 ' same 1 ——— and 16,000 deaths. i deaths per 1,000 population in 1918. The The mortality rate for the five princi- pal epidemics of influenza in recorded | 1,000 of the population in January, history shows an increase up to 1918 | and 100.5 in October, 1918. Available| The general mortality rate for the records for 12 cities, including Washing- | epidemic. of 1920, statistics show, fell to ton, show that the mortality Tate in the | only 13 out of every 1,000 population, epidemic of 1889-1890 was 35 deaths | while the 1926 mortality rate fell to .24. per 1,000 of the population, but for the | or less than one-fourth of one person 2 cities this average rose to 56 | per 1,000 of the populition. mortality rate here reached 36.4 per 1890, MANHATTAN SHIRTS 35 (Main Floor.) to padlock private homes where the b occupants have been convicted of sell- | {atality rate was lower than either of ing liquor. the others, SAAOEE ISP S With very incomplete returns from | the present epidemic as to numbers of | cases, and with death reports meager | as yet, Dr. Cumming and Mr. Syden- | stricker were agreed last night in the Crown Prince Olav yesterday un- [hope that present indications may be veilled a memorial to the late Roald |interpreted to show the fatality rate Amundsen at Borje, near Sharpsborg, |now may be the lowest in recent his- where Amundsen was born in 1872. | tory. 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