Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 62 | Atrocious Measles of German Name Banned

I A ATROCIOUS MEASlES orI or OF GERMAN NAME BANNED The ban i j is on the German measles The Tho allied aWed diseases Known to the medical medical medi medi- cal profession have banded together to relegate to the past that disease with the tIle Teutonic Inflection which wreaks cruelties cruelties cruelties cruel cruel- ties bordering on Hun atrocities Tho The weeks week's report of oC tho elt city board of health shows that German measles cases are arc decreasing and last week only two cases were reported showing In iii in all alla a pretty prell poor standing with other first- first I class sicknesses As a second stroke to the propaganda I of Dr Bill seven se more i 1 happy happ fathers passed parsed around the cigars this week weel than did for the thc same samo period I i last year ear The fhe report for the week sho shows that II there were five eighty births and thirty deaths Seventy eight ei ht cases es of ot whooping cou cough h were era reported S cases of small pox 6 G ca cases c of or chicken pox 11 of mumps 27 7 of measles 15 5 of oC scarlet fever ever 2 of typhoid fever 1 of diphtheria and 2 of German measles One hundred and thirteen visits were marie made to the schools hy by school nurses 4 during the period between May fay 20 0 and 24 according to the report More lore th than n 1000 pupils were examined in the schools The complete report is as follows Visits to schools rooms visited S Sol si t number examined 1018 number Inspected Inspect Inspect- ed permits issued permits refu refused ed 32 2 2 excluded 3 32 referred to medical med med- ical feal Inspector 3 cultures taken 1 vaccinations vaccinations vac vac- ac citations 3 minor dressings 26 21 fi home visits 12 parents to school 4 42 4 Causes for exclusion exclusion Scabies Scabies 1 ton ton- 1 eye CC Infection 5 unclassified 12 suspected suspect d measles 2 suspected mumps 5 suspected whooping cou cough h. h 4 1 suspected diphtheria 1 suspected chicken pox 1 Medical and sur surgical leal treatment obtained ob oh- oh- oh Enlarge tonsils 1 defective teeth 5 treatments recommended 21 1