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Show Anti-Toxin Arrives; Treatment Tuesday Sufficient anti-toxin for the treatment treat-ment of several hundred children and adults caring to take the applic; Ion as a preventative of diphtheria, has been received by the local health workers and the announcement is made that the treatment of the ch'ld-ren ch'ld-ren will start next Tuesday morning af tio WnQliinirf.nn school Vnldi7irr Drs. Hagan and Aldous, Mrs. D. G. Peery, school nurse, Mrs. R3y B. Metcalf and Mrs. I. L. Henrie, will be in attendance to care for those who take the. treatment. The application blanks given out at the last child clinic by the Gunnison. Valley Health center, are being liberally lib-erally signed and it is expected that three or more hundred will avail themselves of the treatment. To make a body immune from the dread disease, diphtheria, three applications applica-tions of the anti-toxin is necessary. The injection of the serum is painless pain-less and no evil results follow. The application, given three times, makes the body immune for life from diphtheria, diph-theria, and for this reason every chihl and every adult should avail themselves of the opportunity at this time. The only charge is for the toxin and this has been placed at a (Continued on Last Page) ANTI-TOXIN ARRIVES; TREATMENT TUESDAY (Continued from Page 1) minimum, only forty cents being assessed as-sessed for the three treatments. The course of treatment requires about three weeks and announcements will be made for the dates set for the giving giv-ing of the treatments that are to follow. Those having the matter in charge ; are asked to cooperate to the fullest extent that Gunnison and Gunnison Valley children may be made immune from the disease which, until the anti-toxin .was introduced, claimed thousands of children annually. |