Open AccessAN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE EFFICACY OF GAUZE FACE MASKS
Author(s) -
W. H. Kellogg,
Grace MacMillan
Publication year - 1920
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.10.1.34
Subject(s) - warrant , face masks , face (sociological concept) , character (mathematics) , covid-19 , medicine , psychology , sociology , business , virology , mathematics , pathology , social science , geometry , disease , finance , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Masks have not been proved efficient enough to warrant compulsory application for the checking of epidemics, according to Dr. Kellogg, who has conducted a painstaking investigation with gauzes. This investigation is scientific in character, omitting no one of the necessary factors. It ought to settle the much argued question of masks for the public.