Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1916-11-04 | Page 14 | Measures Prescribed to Prevent Spread of Infantile Paralysis

MEASURES PRESCRIBED TO PREVENT SPREAD Of INfANTILE PARALYSIS Disease Found by Medical Investigators to Be Spread by Human Contact Washington Nov 1 8 ThO rho Tho w weight of ot present opinion Inclines to tho the view that poliomyelitis Infantile paralysis Is exclusively a n. human disease and Is spread by human contact whatever other causes may bo be found to contribute contribute contri contri- bute bate to Its spread Is la tho the cc conclusion reached ret b by a n committee committee of the American Health association made public hero Jero today by tho the United States public health service Tho sp specific cUlo cause of ot poliomyelitis ti continues the report Is a microorganism microorganism or micro a called so-called led virus which may mM Ibe positively Identified at present only by its Ite production of or p poliomyelitis In experimentally Inoculated experiments have hayo shown this virus to be present not only In tho the ncr ncr- tissues tissue and certain other organs lof oi persons persona who ho have died of ot poliomyelitis itis iUs but also In tho the nc nose nope mouth and bowel discharges of ot patients suffering from the disease The committee recommends the fol- fol owing 1 procedure In attempting to con con- ol the tho disease Requirement that all cognIzed and suspected cases be bo promptly re reported Isolation of or patients Tn in screened premises for at least six weeks dl of body discharges Restriction of ot movements of or Intimate so tar for e as practicable as ex exclusion exclusion ex- ex of ot children of ot the family y from chool and other gatherings protection of ot children from contact with other children c or r he ho general public during during- epidemics observation of ot contacts for tor two weeks after atter the tho last exposure