Show SCARLE SCARLET FEVE FEVER FACTS Health Heath Officer King Issues Isu s Cir Circular Ci cular on Subject ct I IMODE MODE IODE OF t MOISTENED SHEETS SUGGEST SUGGESTED ED BY DR DB KING KINGI I Is Better Than Their the Old Way of Blowing Formaldehyde Through a Keyhole All Forms of pf the Din Dis Disease ease Whether Mild or Severe Sev Cases Are Dangerous Health Officer King yesterday Issued a special circular of information rela relative tive tIe to scarlet fever feyer The text o or of the circular describes a new arty feature in the method of ot disinfecting quarantined homes The old method was to force I formaldehyde gas through a keyhole but the Innovation proposes to have havethe havethe havethe the disinfecting process proc G done by means of ot suspended sheets a simpler and more effective method The health commissioners circular of oC Information reads as follows follow Facts Pacts About Scarlet Fever The following facts about scarlet carlet rash or scarlet fever which are only different names for the same dis disease disease ease are published in the hope that parents and children on learning e some ome something something thing more about the disease may ex exercise exercise greater caution In preventing Its spread by a prompt Isolation and care careful careful careful ful quarantine Scarlet fever is one of the most se serious serious rious sloan and contagious diseases of ot child childhood childhood hood In many It proves fatal In a large proportion of cases and in mild epidemics and sporadic cases the disease often leaves its vic victims time tims with some som chronic affection Some of ot these heart disease kid kidney kidney ney disease impaired hearing etc For these reasons scarlet fever Is greatly dreaded A child after exposure Is la as welt well as usual for fOT from three to eight days daS The Th onset of the disease ia Is sudden The following are some of the more prominent prominent prominent nent symptoms which should arouse a suspicion of scarlet fever In a u child who has been well Nausea Nat ea or vomit vomiting vomitIng vomiting ing occurring suddenly and accompanied led or followed by a fever feyer sore throat headache aching in back and limbs etc ate Should Be Isolated When such symptoms occur the child should not be sent to school even if l he feels teals better the next day da but should at once be placed In a room apart from other children and kept separate for ht hours Usually in hours a rash will begin be n to 10 appear In Ina Inn Ina a n case caas of scarlet fe fever feer er the parents will call a n physician who will take charge and quarantine the case caseI but the danger is Just as great in mild cases ca s which may mey escape attention I The rash may be very bright and vivid and it may appear only In I patches or be very ery indistinct and there therefore therefore fore the whole body should ShOU Id be carefully I Inspected The period when he disease dIse is most contagious is after the eruption Is faded or gone This is called the period of desquamation at this time timO J there Is a shedding of fine fin scales from front the skin which may fly in inthe the air and sticking to the clothing be carried about Carry Disease Germs These Three scales carry the germs of ot the tha th disease They Th y may be packed away In Ina ina Ina a dark closet or 01 trunk and kept fr or years ears This exfoliation o r dt desquamation tion of the outer skin may last for sev severa severn era oral ern weeks and recur several times therefore it Is necessary to keep the person isolated for a long time The Th present rule of ot the th board of o health Is i that any an person who has had scarlet fever shall shaH not attend school for tyne t days daS after the quarantine has been removed or days from the time rime when the rhe sickness first began When a person has recovered from scarlet fever an officer of the board of ot health will trill superintend the of ot the house hou e This will be done with formaldehyde solution thrown jm sus sue suspended suspended sheets and will wll not injure the furniture or any airy article of clothing |