A Ministry of Health circular refers to " a very
rapid spread of influenza," in the UnitedStates and Canada, and reMinds .1111 local authorities that the Minister's. general sanction has already been given to-the provision of medical assistance for the _poor. The circular refers to the Memorandum on Influenza by the Ministry of Health, which has been brought up to date from time to time. Revision was indeed_ very necessary, for there is no disease which has changed its symptoms so often as that which is known Under the loose generic name of influenza. During one epidemic the doctors thought it safe to say that when there was a cold in the head the illness was certainly not influenza ; in another epidemic it was equally . safe to say. that a cold in the head was the beginning of influenza. Then there has been the extraordinary Variety of after-effects, sometimes slight, sometimes deadly, but nearly always present in sonic sequel. of weakness or of an entirely different disease. rt FounatelY-the epidemic now beginning seems to be of a comparatively mild type.
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