Center for Labor Education & Research, University of Hawaii - West Oahu: Honolulu Record Digitization Project

Honolulu Record, Volume 10 No. 7, Thursday, September 12, 1957 p. 2

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Plain Facts About Asiatic Influenza-Don't Get Excited

A plain fact about the Asiatic influenza which threatens to sweep the United States and other northern hemisphere countries, including Hawaii, in epidemic form this fall and winter is:

Don't get excited.

If you develop chills or a chilly sensation, followed by high fever and associated with marked prostration, cough, or bloody sputum, go to bed and" call a doctor.

Going to bed stops the spread of your dose of flu, and it will protect you from catching pneumonia-producing germs from others.

The germ of the Asiatic flu has been isolated and a vaccine has been produced for it. Many pharmaceutical houses are producing the vaccine for distribution.

Until you are able to get an injection of this vaccine, remember that the flu is highly infectious It is spread from person to person by direct contact (kissing, for example), through breathing, coughing, sneezing and speaking.

The Home Lines, a combination of Greek and Italian interests, are operating in the trans-Atlantic trade two former Matson ships—the Mariposa, now called the Homeric, and the Malolo, now the Queen Frederika.

p /> I do not say that at odd hours a patient must be given the regular hot dinner or supper. Few people would expect this.
 
But what is so complicated about opening and heating a can of soup, making some toast, or preparing instant coffee or tea? Why cannot a night nurse do these simple things after the kitchen to closed? Is it just too much trouble?

It is only common humanity to feed the hungry. If our hospitals are too big, too complex, too impersonal to do these small kindnesses for the sick, something is very wrong.