Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-02-14 | Page 11 | Diet and Health

Diet Healt b u Lu Hunt fl 4 EPIDEMIC LETHARGIC ENCEPHALITIS ENCEPHALITIS EN- EN SLEEPING SICKNESS One or two days a week for the thelast thelast last few weeks I have been giving you the latest data on communicable ble diseases as given by the United States public health reports of December December De- De cember 17 1926 Today Im I'm going to give you the report on the so- so called Sleeping SIckness EpIdemic Lethargic Encephalitis Encephalitis means inflammation ot of the brain the lUs itis always means inflammation This sleeping sickness Is not the true sleeping sickness of Africa whIch is caused by and transmitted transmitted trans trans- by the bite ot of the infected tsetse fly As you will see by the report the infectious agent ot of the sleeping sickness sickness sick sick- ness we know here In this country and In Europe is as yet unknown although research work Is being done ott on it nIl all the tIme Some ome research research re- re search men believe It Js is to a type of streptococcus a vIrulent germ which Irma in small chains but the C c- e a has not been so conclusive as to be accepted by bythe bythe the profession The symptoms vary ary depending upon what part of the brain Is inflamed In- In flamed The most frequent I the sleeping type although there Is Isa Isa a form known as the type In whIch the patient Is very excitable excitable able arid just the opposite e to sleepy Sleeping sickness is a aery ery serIous serI serI- ous pus diseases not so much that it Is fatal Immediately but because It may leave grave results in physical cal Impairment and in children hildren especially especially es- es mental impairment perhaps perhaps per per- haps to the extent of changing the moral tone from that ot of an plary individual to a thief liar Jand land pervert After a patient recovers and Isable is isable able to go back to work he must still consider that there may be a focus ot of Infection not overcome and he must assiduously keep his health up to par and keep himself himsel under the observation of his physician The habits that undermIned hIs resistance resistance re- re In the f place I e not be resumed and he be must pay attention to getting his fresh tres exercise sufficient sleep diet The later larer articles disease lay great stress stress stress-on on One physIcian wrote up ase ot of cases in whIch lie had not noted t tack lack ot of sufficient sleep for a I 1 period ot of time seemed to be chief chier thing that the In his cases Besides medication sometimes gIven to kill of oC causative factor physicians ar aie r irradiations with ultraviolet ray to keep the b body dY high Following is the public health port 1 Infectious agent Unknown wn 2 Source of Pr b 1 dischargEs dischargE's from the nose and of Infected persons or arU arti freshly soiled therewith It l posed that there are healthy carr during prevalence of the disease 3 Mode of p. i ro robly bly by direct contact with an person or a carrIer of t virus or by contact with art freshly soiled wIth the dischar r of the nose or throat ot of suc such r sons 11 4 Incubation Unde period mined Believed to be about days 11 5 Period of Probably during the at of the disease 6 Methods or of control 1st A. A The infected Ills environment t el 1 Recognition of the disease clinical symptoms 2 Isolation or of recognized c ca cafor for one week after onset 3 Immunization one i 4 Quarantine 5 Discharges the nose and throat and arti rt soiled therewith 6 Final B. B General measures 1 Search for fOl and or i- i cases durIng periods ot of 2 Isolation ot of suspected feb fe-b cases pendIng diagnosis I Tomorrow