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During the epidemic in the middle of November, while the facts were
fresh in the memories of the practitioners, a circular letter was addressed to
them asking for certain information, and the following are the questions submitted
and answers received from a number of the medical men who have
very large practices within the Borough, the residents of which are for the
most part of the working classes.
The letters preceding the replies are simply to separate them, and do
not indicate the same practitioner's reply under each heading.
Question 1. Date of first appearance of the epidemic in your practice
(Poplar District) and of its cessation.
Replies.
(а) 11.10.1918 to 16.12.1918.
(b) Appeared early in October, say, about second week.
(c) About October 14th to first week in December. Previous outbreak,
last week in June—duration about five wceks.
(d) End of September. I do not consider the summer epidemic to have
been influenza.
(e) Middle of October.
(f) Middle of October, 1918.
(g) About October 19th, 1918.
(h) October 10th, 1918, to November 13th, 1918.
(i) Week commencing October 7th, 1918.
(j) October 14th, 1918.
Question 2. -The results of any local pathological examinations able to
be obtained, including bacteriological examinations of sputa.
Replies None made in any case.
Question 3.—Have you any evidence throwing light on the means of
introduction of the disease ?