Show about child weighing 1 I want my baby to be weighed and measured for uncle sam but I 1 dont want him to run the risk of catching kasles or whooping cough said an anxious mother yesterday because tho committee in charge of the weighing and measuring tabt in washington county doea not want that mothers baby or any other to catch measles or whooping cough i or any other dease certain tioga recommended by the childrens bureau of the U S depart anent of labor are being taken in the first place mothers children are suffering from conlan icus diseases or have recently been exposed to them are asked not tu bring them to be weighed ayd meas ared cards can be given these mothers on which if the child is well enough to make it desirable for him to be entered in the test he can be weighed neighed and measured at home the bureau has urged that in ad a nurse be assigned wherever possible to look over evera child who comes to the weighing center so that any who show evidence of contag lous disease including hid cold shall not be examined at the center where they would expose other child ren to the danger of catching disease aiom chith they are suffer ing cards can be given to the parents of these children also to bt filled out at home the childrens bureau lias recommended that appointments be made in advance for examinations and that children be examined by ap in this ray it wilt not be necessary for more than two or three children etith their moth ers to be admitted to the waiting room at the same tune mother used often to cay thit they hoped john and sally donld have the roe isles at the same time because it was so much less trouble and when john had them sally wa likely to ba given every opportunity to hive them too rut mothers are more and more realizing that reasonable precautions can often sive both sally and john from measles at ill ind that pertinent permin ent injury and sometimes deitle may insult from or whooping cough so they ire making every effort to see thit their children are not e posed to contagious diseases consequently in the weighing and measuring test precautions will be taken to see that large numbers of children are pot crowded together and thus exposed to a risk of contracting contagious disease |