RT Journal
T1 BErlin
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD April 27
VO 92
IS 17
SP 1465
OP 1466
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700430067026
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700430067026
AB Influenza in Hamburg 
    A session of the Hamburger Aerztlicher Verein, held a few weeks ago, was devoted to a comprehensive discussion of the influenza epidemic in Hamburg. As similar conditions have existed also in other parts of Germany, the report of the discussion before the Hamburger Verein, as contained in the Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift, has considerable interest. As influenza is not a notifiable disease and cannot be diagnosed so unerringly as diphtheria and typhoid, for example, by the demonstration of the presence of the offending organism, the enumeration of the influenza cases is dependent on indirect evidence and is more or less inexact. According to the Hamburg bureau of health, the spread of the disease is judged by the patients in the hospitals and the number of deaths that occur, the latter furnishing, at the same time, evidence as to the gravity of the disease in general. At the beginning