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Show For Your PRINTING NEEDS Try Our Service. PLEASANT GROVE REVIEW Printers & Publishers around it. This red halo may attain the size of a silver dollar or even larger. The size of the "scab" is usually less than the size of a dime. During the time the red area is present, the patient may feel no reaction. However, he usually runs a fever which may be as high as 103 to 104. He may also have generalized symptoms similar to those of the "flu" such as listless-ness, listless-ness, irritability, and generalized ache and pains and headache. These symptoms may continue for three to four days. The redness then disappears and the "scab" becomes hard, dark, and dry, and usually drops off leaving a small faint scar about one-quarter inch in diameter. The "multiple pressure" technique described before, usually leaves a smaller scar than the "scratch" technique. The above reaction is the usual one and is called a "primary take." One may also have an accelerated or "vaccinoid" reaction. The dormant dor-mant stage is only about two days and the peak of the reaction is over in seven days. There are few, ! if any, symptoms and the immunity is as lasting as a "primary" take, This type reaction usually implies at least a partial immunity. It is found most often in patients who have had a previous vaccination. In some persons the vaccination produces no reaction. This does not necessarily mean the person is immune to smallpox. The vaccine vac-cine may have lost its potency the skin may not have beer thoroughly cleaned, soap may have been used on the area after vaccination, vac-cination, or the person may have a "resistance" to the virus protein, These people should be revaccinatec until a "take" is obtained. The length of immunity is variable vari-able and may be for life following a vaccination with a primary take, However, cases have occurred aftei five years following vaccination Therefore, it is recommended thai vaccinations be repeated at five-year five-year intervals. The best time for vaccination is usually during the first yeai of life, for several reasons: (1) the reaction symptoms are usually usual-ly less at this age, (2) encephalitis one of the rare complications tc smallpox vaccination, is almost unheard un-heard of at this age, and (3) the patient develops early immunity tc the disease. Sometimes vaccinations should be delayed. This is true when the person has eczema or a similai disease, or where a member of the family has such a disease and is in close contact with the persor being vaccinated. In these cases there is a chance for the vaccinia vac-cinia virus to get into the eczema lesions and produce multiple vaccinations vac-cinations at many sites. This is a serious condition and may be fatal. We cannot stress too stronglj the importance of vaccination foi most people. It is only through vaccination that the disease has been controlled to the point where, in our country, smallpox is rarity. However, because it is sc rare many of us are getting careless care-less and feel that, since the likelihood likeli-hood of exposure is small, we car forego the vaccination procedure. Such an attitude is a threat, nol only to the unvaccinated persor himself, but allows him to aid the continuance of the smallpox virus, For without a susceptible host, the virus cannot survive. We canno! afford not to be vaccinated. Manj states require by law that a person be vaccinated before he can attend school. If an epidemic were imminent, immi-nent, we would all be clamoring for a vaccination. What if it were not available? Your Doctor Says... The following is one of a series of articles written by members of the Utah State Medical Association and published in cooperation with your local newspaper. These articles are scheduled to appear every other week throughout the year in an effort to belter acquaint you with problems of health, and designed to improve the well-being of the people of Utah SMALLPOX VACCINATION This simple procedure, smallpox vaccination, has had as profound an influence on the lives of people as any other single medical advance. ad-vance. Before the days of artificial immunity im-munity to smallpox, whole communities com-munities were wiped out by this dreaded disease. Commerce, industry, indus-try, religion, and social life were all interrupted at the outbreak of an epidemic. There was no known prevention or cure. Smallpox is caused by a tiny virus which has been isolated and can be seen with an electron microscope. mi-croscope. It is similar to cowpox virus in that each disease causes immunity to the other. Thus, if a person is given the disease "cow-pox", "cow-pox", which is a mild disease, the body produces a substance which protects it against smallpox. This is exactly what occurred in the first smallpox vaccination. In 1774 a Dorsetshire farmer by the name of Benjamin- Jesty used the method of vaccination to protect pro-tect his own family. He took material from a cowpox lesion and put it on the skin of the members of his family and, by injuring the skin in that area, allowed the cow-pox cow-pox virus to invade the skin and produce the mild lesion which caused the body to produce its protective substance which also protected against smallpox. The credit for smallpox vaccination vaccina-tion goes to Dr. Edward Jenner. In 1798 he proved conclusively to the medical profession that inoculation in-oculation of humans with the cow-pox cow-pox material produced immunity against smallpox. Since Dr. Jenner's time the material used has been changed. We now use another virus called vaccinia virus which is closely related re-lated to cowpox and smallpox and also produces not only a mild disease, but also an immunity against the smallpox virus. The vaccination procedure is a painless one. The skin is first cleansed with acetone or ether. A drop of the vaccinia suspension is placed on the clean area and the operator then either makes a small scratch in the superficial layer of skin without drawing blood, or repeatedly presses the side of a needle point against the skin through the drop of fluid. Even though neither of the methods is painful, the top layer of skin cells is injured and thus allows the virus to enter the cells and produce the lesion. The time for the virus to penetrate the skin may be as long as twenty-four hours or more. Therefore, the skin should not be wet or washed for at least forty-eight forty-eight hours after the vaccination process. Following the procedure, there is a dormant period of five to ten days during which no sign of reaction is evident. Then a small "pimple" appears which grows and has an increasing area of redness WHAT Oram Tlnl PRICE YOT PAV'IFOB .fflllK?. During the first "milk price truce" requested by Governor Lee, Safeway presented full cost and profit figures to Utah's Milk Study Committee. These figures included: could cut plant and delivery costs all along the line. Like .M i anv sound business operation. Lucerne is set up with an eye A par-quart analysis of costs and profits ,n m.lk for tQ 'tomoffow set UP tQ handle r wlum e wkh lk the 4 week period ending June 18, 1955. inCfease .Q quar( pknt of Net profit earned by the Lucerne Milk Company, handling milk would be lower, selling to Safeway, in 1954 totalling $137,326.00 a little over 26.11 on its investment. Lucerne's net profit earned through the First 20 AND WHAT ABOUT PROFITS? weeks in 1955 totalling $52,575.08. ! The substantial profit figures showed that Safeway could LikeJ concern, Safeway works toward in- sell milk for less, continue to pay top market prices and f business through greater volume and lower costs, quality bonuses to dairy farmers - and still earn a reason- As Safeway s overall milk business increases per quart profits I able profit and good return on its investment. To fully 5an r.ueed and the difference passed on to you in i appreciate how this could be done you should know how ower mi k prices. 1 costs and profits are figured in milk. La the four week period (shown below) Safeway's Lucerne ! plant profits were 1-40100 cents per quart. Safeway Stores i received the standard margin of 2-40100 cents per quart as 1 UCDC ADC TUC CIV HAClf" frtCTC compensation for store handling and profit. Lucerne's May HtKt AKt lilt 51A LUlli: 21 report for the preceding 4 week period showed Lucerne's profit of 1-21100 cents per quart. The higher profit for the s 1. The costs of the raw milk itself; June period came from increased volume and lower costs. i 2. The costs of picking it up; While these per quart profits seem low, they are substan- i o tl l. i i t'3 when based on volume. The 4 week period ending I 3. The costs of pasteurizing, homogenizing, June lg fof e j fc fat Lucemes netPprofit for th test.ng and packaging the m.lk; first 24 weeks this year up to $68,205.65. So you can see ' 4. Administrative costs; how, in the future, Safeway could make a reasonable overall ; profit while still reducing its per quart profit, and passing 5. Delivery costs; and the reduction on to you in lower milk prices. 6. Advertising costs. This, Safeway believes, is a sound way for milk bottlers Of these costs, the most important and biggest is the and reJail1e,rs 5 compete for your business. And it cannot price paid dairy farmers for milk. This price comes to hu Ftah s dal farmers if the price they are paid for almost 12 cents a quart on the milk you buy at Safeway. milk ,s Protected. Unfortunately neither the Milk Study Committee nor the J Legislative Council has recommended any positive action SHOULD THE PRICE PAID DAIRY r profeet dairy farmerSl FARMERS BE REDUCED? I Safeway says NO! Dairy farmers are essential to the wel- SAFEWAY'S CoSf Oil Q s , fare of Utah's citizens. They must have fair prices to stay in business, and those fair prices must be constant. QllOtt Of Milk 1 For this reason, it is Safeway's policy (never violated) t to pay top market prices for milk PLUS bonuses for AUDITED FIGURES FOR 4-WEEK PERIOD quality. i ENDING JUNE 18, 1955 ; But as you can see this is a tempting place to cut costs and that's a way "price wars" begin. That's why Safeway , price .j dai far presented witnesses to Utah s Milk Study Committee - including quality bonuses 11-94100 Cents , witnesses who testified; from experience, that where the price n 7 ' ! paid dairy farmers for milk is protected (by law or other 2. Cost of picking up milk from regulation), price wars do not occur. For then, bottlers and farms, fat loss, finished , retailers cannot pass the costs of competitive pricing back produce loss 32100 Cents the easy way to dairy farmers. . . . .... ' 3. An plant costs, including i laboratory, cartons, union labor, machinery, overhead ; HOW, THEN, CAN THE COSTS IN M!LK and maintenance 3-56100 Cents BE REDUCED? Administrative costs 18100 Cents ' 5. Delivery expense, including 1 By reducing processing, delivery, and other service costs labor, trucks, ice, etc 71100 Cents through greater efficiency and better methods of operation. 6 Advertising costs 49100 Cents ; FOR EXAMPLE: Safeway developed a method of welding profit .ocerne 1-40100 Cents ; its milk plant pipe lines so that the work (and costs) of taking the lines apart each day for cleaning would be elim- To Safeway Retail Stores 2-40100 Cents inated and the cleaning job would be more complete more sanitary. This helps to reduce plant costs. , Safeway has also gained efficiency through cash-and-carry WHY SAFEWAY IS PUBLISHING THIS STATEMENT sale of milk through stores. Any other processor or distributor distrib-utor who wants to concentrate on this method of store sales Safeway was born in neighboring Idaho. We have a of milk and it is done in many parts of the United States big stake in Utah and a citizen's concern for Utah's well- can have the same kind of efficient operation as Safeway. being. Safeway is confident that in the future it will find many We believe we have a responsibility to the public, our new ways to reduce costs. employees, suppliers, and stockholders to publish the record . , , . , , , , , , of our testimony to the Milk Study Committee. And, of course, any increase in volume sales (and that s what any competitive businessman or concern works toward) Watch for these reports in this newspaper. Would You Like GAS MEAT? Call P. G. 3371 for Details RASMUSSEN HEATING and VENTILATING CO. 79 South Main Pleasant Grove |