OCR Text |
Show DR. WILCOX GIVES SOUND ADVICE FOR PREVENTION OF DREADED SMALLPOX M ! I v . Vaccination Is First and Best Preventive; Forty Cases Now in City, and Great Care MustBe Taken. sj0 I SEE A DOCTOR IF ! ft ft YOU HAVE A HEADACHE, PAINS IN YOUR BACK AND LIMBS YOU ARE FEVERISH, ' ' YOU HAVE NAUSEA, - ' . YOU VOMIT. S City Physician C. F. Wilcox has glv- J en out the following facts concerning . the threatened epidemic of smallpox which has appeared in our city again: First If you rfave a headache. Second If you have pains in your back and limbs. Third If you are feverish. Fourth If you have a nausea and. Fifth If you vomit. You have the symptoms of smallpox and should SEE A DOCTOR AT ONCE. The above symptoms remain for three days. On the fourth day an eruption will manifest itself on the body. It will be fine at first and scattered over the entire body and limbs. It will continue to Increase in distribution and the pos-tules pos-tules will appear larger and more characteristic. char-acteristic. When this stage of the disease Is reached, the patient will begin to feel quite well. There will be no sickness and it is quite likely that the physician will not be called. In this lies the danger. dan-ger. It is at this point that the contagion con-tagion is at its most dangerous stage. DON'T DELAY. SEE A DOCTOR. The. or.ly known preventive for this dread disease is vaccination. The efficacy effi-cacy of this method of prevention Is so well demonstrated that the well informed in-formed and the one who has investigated investi-gated the matter reeds no further proof than the health statistics of any community. com-munity. In this city 95 per cent of the cases are among those who are not vaccinated. vaccinat-ed. One per cent of those who have the smallpox are vaccinated and with them the difare is in so mild a form that there is little sickness and but little contagion con-tagion for others for the reason that the number of postules carrying the germs is so much smaller than In the cases where the patient has never' been vaccinated. ' The fact that so many people who have had the disease say that It is not severe and that it is hardly ever fatal leads some to think that there Is not so much need of trying to prevent It. In this they are very sadly mistaken. Smallpox is one disease that is to be dreaded almost above all others. Frequently Fre-quently a postule will form on the eye. When it does, blindr.eps Is almost sure to result. It may be only partial, but is more often total. If you have never had the smallpox and if you are not vaccinated. GET VACCINATED AT ONCE. . There Is no provision for free vacci-' nation, but City Physician Wlloox has ) said to The Telegram that any person who wishes to be vaccinated and who cannot afford the services of a physician physi-cian needs but to come to him and explain ex-plain matters, and be vaccinated at his expense. Four years ngo the antl-vacclnatlon law was passed over the Veto of Gov. Wells and the State is without a compulsory com-pulsory measure forcing this well recognized recog-nized means of prevention. The spread of the disease Is traced by Dr. Wilcox directly to the cases in Mill Creek. There were two families who had children sick with the disease, but they thought at first that it was only chlckenpox. They let it go and while their children were actually having smallpox, others of the same families were attending school and spreading the disease broadcast. One of these families moved into the city. They located on the east part of the north bench. It Is in this locality that the disease is most prevalent. In coming to this city they rode on a street car. Two of the railway employees em-ployees were exposed to the germs and distrtbutedlthem to other rassengers on . the cars and to members of their own families. It is In this way that the disease dis-ease was imported into this city. ' Up to this time the health officials, after diligent work, had stamped the dread disease out of existence in the city. Now It threatens the entire com- . munity If they refuse to heed the advice ad-vice of the health officials. There are now In the city some forty cases of smallpox and It Is confined to a half-doien families. Of these forty capes thirty-six of them are children and four adults. The Board of Health will meet Monday Mon-day morning, at which time the situation situa-tion will be thoroughly discussed. They will take up the matter of providing for -the free vaccination of those who are unable to pay for It and other matters ' pertaining to the epidemic which again threatens the community. The indications are that the epidemic of four years ago will be repeated. THE ONLY THING THAT WILL SAVE THE CITY IS A THORl'GH VACCINATION. VACCI-NATION. The utmost vigilance on the part of the health officers and school officials is necepry to prevent the spread of the infection and they are now doing all that Is In their power to ward this end. It lies with you more than wtth anyone any-one else. If you are rot vaccinated you should attend to the matter at once. You are In danger if you do not The plea of the doctors is, BE VAC-; CI MATED, - -1 |