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Help Avoid the Spread of Spanish Influenza
About thirty families in Crystal Lake are now afflicted with the Spanish influenza, in some cases only one member
of the family and in other cases as many as three or four members suffering with the disease, so that it is estimated
that there are fifty or sixty cases of the ailment in town. All possible precautions should be taken to avoid a
spread of the epidemic. While the disease does not legally require the placarding of the house, unnecessary visiting
of such premises is prohibited,and sufferers from the influenza should be isolated from the rest of the family,
and the victim is not to attend any public gathering until five days after he is pronounced free from all symptoms
of the disease. Other occupants of the premises must not attend public gatherings, and the usual disinfecting should
be done. Public funerals are only permitted when the body is perfectly embalmed, and when a body is not embalmed,
but enclosed in a tight casket with the cover partly of glass, the cover must not be removed in public. Col. P.
S. Doane head of the health section of the shipping board at Washington, thinks it quite possible that the epidemic
was started by Huns. [Crystal Lake Herald 3 Oct1918 - Contributed by
Mert Sarvay]