Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-03-09 | Page 46 | School Children Get Disease Very Easily

SCHOOL CHILDREN GET DISEASE VERY EASILY such Children of ot school age contract diseases as measles scarlet fever and ana than diphtheria much m more re frequently older persons Ajl AjI that thal has been learned transmission of ot certain certain certain about the tho modes of ot tain diseases ases notably diphtheria Indicates indicates indi Indi- cates that the taking of a large number number number num num- ber of ot children out from their restricted family and neighborhood relationships and bringing them into contact with a the op opportunities op- op much l larger group w will iii increase for tor infection As regards opportunities for Infection furnished bythe b by bytho tho the be bo admitted that school It must while the slate the time common drinking cup and the rolier roller towel are fast passIng passing pass pass- Ing aWa away sufficient facilities s for the time transfer of or disease se germs still sUll exist Inthe in inthe the time friendly exchange of ot pocket handkerchiefs handkerchiefs hand hand- kerchiefs lip moistened lead pencils chewing gum and the like The school Playground as ns well as the schoolroom must bo bf bs c considered In J Its bearing on the subject of or school diseases disease The significance of or school attendance on tho the public health side aide lies Hes not only in assembling of or children In a room but also in rin tho the bringing unto into more or less intimate association a number numbe of chil children dren who would other otherwise not hamet ha have hate e met at all Increasing the number or ot associates must necessarily Increase the C chane chances JancA or of infection and andr scarlet t fever show a n. marked d increase c in the autumn when the schools open and an equally equall definite decrease in the time summer when whon the schools are aie closed The discovery I cover y of th the part pla played ed b by the healthy health germ carrier throws light lighton on the tho probable orl origin ln of c certain obscure obscure ob ob- cases of infection says U S 'S Prof ProC 12 l' l O. O Jordan of ot the University of ot Chicago 4 A child in a family in n which a n case of or diphtheria exists may mav bear In Its throat living H diphtheria bacilli without manifesting mani festing any an sign of or dih ease If H th i tId la is allom allowed to eater cuter school a play play- i mato lU mate lc ma may acquire the tho bacillus tv without in lu its Us turn becoming definitely ill This second child however may tape take t the germ crOl homo home and pass U Jt on to a non non- child In tho same family who then may f a develop loP a typical case of or Methods Ie of ot control of ot r school chool and nd Institutional outbreaks of ot diphtheria are arc therefore coming to be focused on the time detection and exclusion of ot th tho Crr carrier r. of ot inn n cent nt chairs and tables and enCore school closure are ai aJ In general four round ai be bo less effective than the discovery discovery- dl ert co isolation of or the living bearer e ol or t dp l p g theila theria germs When school n HId is 13 bacteriologic regu regulated by school o epidemics quickly of Journal of ot American Medical tion