Show Daily Health Immunization Should nn Bi Given Give Ever B By DR DK MORRIS l FISHBEIN Editor Journal of oC the American Medical Medi cal cai Association J and of oC the Health Magazine The laws of most states and municipalities now demand that the child be ac successfully vaccinated against smallpox before it is permitted to enter school There Is plenty of evidence from all over the world to o indicate that smallpox vaccination actually protects against the disease Millions o of people have been successfully success full fully vaccinated without harm Nowadays the child should also be given th the benefit of immunization against diphtheria with lo toxin anti anti in-anti- toxin or with Here also millions mil mil- millions lions Hons of children have had the thc prevention pro pre without harm horm and the scientific records show definitely that the death rates rales and the amount of illness from rom diphtheria are ore steadily decreasing Today these are arc the two methods lof of inoculation against disease which are arc fully established and nd which may maywell maywell well viell be as a. routine for every child There arc are other methods which arc are sometimes used in the prevention of oC serious epidemics The inoculation against scarlet fever has been proved to be practicable However ics of scarlet starlet fever arc are infrequent and inoculation is not recommended Unless unless unless un un- less special danger exists We have learned to protect chil dren against many infections by mak making making ing ng inspections and by putting the child with an infectious disease promptly out of circulation In most good schools ch children with coughs colds and sneezing ng are promptly sent home A child with fever rever has no business in school The appearance of any my unusual eruption on art the skin should cause the mother to seek promptly the attention of a physician so that a proper diagnosis may be made t nd i-nd d other children pro Good habits of hygiene such as have been previously referred to include in include in- in clude elude plenty o of rest suitable exercise in the sunlight and the outdoor air aira air a proper diet and attention to the teeth the tonsils and the adenoids ds This will also aid in cutting down 1 greatly greally the amount o of infection eases cases When a a. child has been sick J Jany it J any of oC the usual infections of ot hood such as measles scarlet fever whooping mumps or with some of the but more serious conditions r S It of ot course require special Wi Above everything however 11 tf important to keep the thc child i. i J n long enough after It has rl from Crom the acute condition to ta tam tain that its body Is free fim from m I discharges of an any kind The prevention of disease i 13 fod j. j as Important as cure It is an etI measure for tor ever every CO which puts it into nto On One it most important factors of th in prevention is the child perhaps regular on I its birthday as to provide for tor control of ot con condi before they become ft serious l III long lont on run money spent for U is isar tar far better spent than that cure p paid id s I Tomorrow Defects C in I ts Children |