TY - JOUR T1 - BErlin Y1 - 1929/04/27 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1929.02700430067026 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 1465 EP - 1466 VL - 92 IS - 17 N2 - Influenza in HamburgĀ  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 SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1929.02700430067026 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700430067026 ER -