Show CHILDREN WITH COLDS SHOULD A AVOID SCHOOL EXPOSURE IS ADVICE By fly MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Every mother should hould have hue a copy of or Mrs MM Eldred's leaflet What Mothers Mother's Should Know About Vom Vom- IUn lung Send your request with a self addressed cent 3 stamped envelope envelope en en- to Myrtle Irtle Meyer leer Eldred in care of the Your Baby aby and Mine department of this newspaper Because of or the contagious nature of ot such serious illnesses as measles and scarlet carlet lever level mothers have voiced their belief that public schools I should protect pupils by sending I home any child who comes to school I suffering from rom a it cold Most children's childrens childrens children's chil chil- drens dren's diseases start with willi what looks like a cold cold so so that this procedure would help to prevent the the- spread of ot contagion Modern nursery schools and some elementary schools schools' have adopted a policy of or this sort ort Children are examined examined ex examined by a nurse when they arrive and arc are allowed to remain reman only if af they show no iio detectable signs of or ill ill- ness It would mark an advance were schools everywhere to adopt such a program But until such course is universal why need the mother shift shirt this his burden burden burden bur bur- den to the school A mother knows by ti the way a child looks talks and acts aclo whether he is on the road to an illness There seems no excuse nor any defense for lor her carelessness in allowing such a child to go to s school hol If the illness does docs not materialize well and good the child can return to lo school at the the next session If IL he heIs heis heis Is on the verge of illness it is unjust to send him to school and a grave injustice to force well children into contact with him There are many ways of oC transmitting transmitting transmit transmit- ting diseases but measles and scarlet fever are spread b by the he droplet route Persons harboring the germs erms of or measles or scarlet fever spread them by talking coughing or sneezing thus they scamper from person to person Until the nature of or a childs child's illness s sIs Is known it is just good sense to isolate him not only from his associates associates asso asso- elates but from members of ot the fam lam ily 11 There is no longer even the weakest foundation for tor that time old belief belie that It is better for lor children to have the childhood diseases and be through with them Measles and scarlet fever lever are serious serious seri seri- ous ow illnesses and may be followed by extremely serious complications The younger f un cr the child the more dangerous are ire these illnesses so that each year he is is protected against them the more able he is to resist the infection and withstand the disease Mothers l should develop a social ocial co conscience which would make it impossible im un possible for lor them to expose child to a disease chiefly In the in- in o of preserving their own child child's attendance record at school 4 |