Show Facts Given Concerning Fever Davis county P T A officers are arc going doing all out for the rheumatic Sever fever drive beginning Jan 15 and using aising material furnished them by bythe the thc county health clinic arc are speak- speak speaking ing in the various They state that rheumatic fever is a very serious infection sometimes hard if fC not impossible to recognize it when it first begins An attack may mayie maybe be ie accompanied in the beginning by any my of these signs and symptoms j symptoms toms failure to gain weight early earl p fatigue increased irritability poor appetite pallor repeated nose nose- nosebleeds bleeds low unexplained persistent lever fever frequent complaints ints of pain in the arms anns legs or abdomen or frequent colds Of course these signs igns either singly or in combination combination tion do not mean that a child surely has rheumatic fever but do mean that he should be ex ex- examined by a physician They state that rheumatic fever lulls kills more school age children in inthe inthe inthe I the United States than any other i disease Actually however the Jarge large number of deaths caused by bythe bythe bythe the disease only suggests the size sue of the problem For every child who dies of it there are many hany man more who are attacked and have long out drawn drawn out attacks lasting for months There are about half a million of our children now with the fever per or have had it in the thc past they state and no one can measure me sure the physical suffering and heartbreak he it has caused They compare it with what mow moUl- mowers eis ers think to be the worst childhood disease polio Both strike in the lamer er age group primarily p 5 to 10 years In 1946 an epidemic year for Jor polio cases were report report- reported ed td with deaths Any year there are at least cases of rheu rheu- rheumatic rheumatic matic matie fever in a non-epidemic non state At all times in the United States we have a million persons suffering St fering from the disease Every year ear between 30 and 60 thousand deaths occur because ot of this rheu rheu- rheumatic rheumatic rheumatic matic state More deaths than polio diphtheria measles scarlet fever whooping cough and meningitis combined The P T A is striving for funds for a fluoroscope to provide additional addi addi- additional cardiac knowledge of cases cases I the county now has some of them a for transcribing transcribing ing clinic findings so they I will not I have to be taken to Ogden or Salt Lake following the clinic diagnosis I sis and a minimum of 25 beds for convalescent home for adequate facilities for weekly clinics in the county They state that where hundreds of dollars are being in spent re re- research research research search for polio up until now only pennies jennies are expended e. e in research for lor rheumatic fever They ask the parents to give what they can I |