Show Keeping Up 0 CI R e 0 Science Service Service Trench Mouth Threatens to Stay With Us for Good You Yon May fay Carry It and nd Not Know Inow You Have It DETROIT Trench Trench mouth which pl plagued the doughboys in Fr France nce threatens to become one of the diseases that are al always always at- at ways with us or as scientists say endemic in this country Dr r. r Don Chalmers Lyons of Jackson Mich declared here atthe at nt atthe the meeting of the Society of Bacteriologists Bac Pathologists and Allied Allied Al Al- lied Workers of ot Michigan Ohio and Indiana Carriers t that at Is persons who ho have trench mouth without knowIng knowIng know know- knowIng Ing lt It and Improperly cleaned beverage beverage beverage bev bev- glasses are the means b by y which this dl disease ease Is spreading Doctor Lyons stated stIlted He quoted Impressive figures to show the Increase inCrease In crease In cases of ot this disease within withIn with with- in recent years years Spreads In Washington In the state of of- Washington wh where e It Is classed as a n common communicable disease and accordIng accordIng accord accord- Ing to law reportable within 24 hours to county and city health officers of ot there were seven cases reported reported re reo re- re ported In 1031 1931 and 3 13 In 1934 1034 a n tremendous Increase from a percentage percentage percentage per per- standpoint Doctor Lyons said Ninety five cases were reported re reported reported re re- e- e ported in Illinois In 1931 1031 and 75 8 In 1034 1934 or a n per cent Increase Eight hundred and eighty cases case were reported In upstate New York In tn 1931 and 1733 In 1 1934 34 or more mor e than han per cent Increase One On e can mu safely say that If all cases case s were were reported the figures would b beven be e even more Impressive Doctor Lyons and other scientists have exa examined glasses as they came cam e back from customers In beverage e dispensing establishments and also as they hung on the rack supposedly supposed supposed- ly clean and ready for use The They y found many of ot the germs o of f trench mouth mount on the rims of both dirty y and clean glasses Chronic Cases Are Danger The chronic stage of oC the disease is the most Important from the I public health standpoint Doctor L Lyons ns said The organisms o or orge r ge germs that cause It are arc n apparently apparently par not normally found In the e mouth but they may get Into tit tile tHe e gums and propagate there without causing much discomfort to the patient pa tient Cleat The latter Jatter does docs not realize he has hns the disease does not have haveIt It treated and unsuspectingly passes on the organisms to sus susceptible persons who may then suffer suffer sutter suf sut- fer ter from the acute stage of r the dis ease |