| Show Let Our Motto Be De DeGOOD GOOD HEALTH DY BY DR LLOYD ARNOLD Professor of Qt Bacteriology and ind Medicine of Coli College of or WHOOPING COUGH Anyone who has oen een a child go EO through the strangling vomiting phase of whooping cough certainly If wishes 1111 e. e t that whooping w 1 0 op t D I a cough might be 4 wiped off orr the We face tace of the earth rough cough roughs Js S a major Infectious Inter Intec disease It causes cause II or more deaths yearly earl In la this countr country In Inthe Inthe Inthe the seven lIev n years yearl end ending I n g In 10 1031 1001 there were approximately 2000 deaths deaths' from whooping cough In the state tate of Illinois or an average of about W a year roar During 1031 1001 and part of 1032 cases case I were wen reported to the Illinois Illi 1111 nois noli health department by physicians of the Ita state te Ninety per cent of the deaths occur in 10 children under three years of age The largest number of deaths occur In to Inthe Inthe the second half hatt of the first year ear Girls Girl ar are more susceptible to whoopIng whoop whoop- Ing lag cough couCh than boys are It is the only communicable disease di of childhood In which there It is this thI sex leX distinction Death rates are higher In the rural districts than In the cities and the disease Is more severe in colder climates cli mates matea than In the tho warm zones lones While few tew deaths occur past six years of age ag anyone may get whooping cough couCh Parents If It they have not cot had bad hadIt It before sometimes get It from their children But Dut one has had a case ca of this disease one is 11 usually Immune to a second attack So far as is known monkeys are the only animals besides man that can contract whooping cough This ls is one reason renson why It has bill been di difficult cult for bacteriologists to experiment with this disease as al monkeys are scarce and ex ex- p pensive Indeed the tho papers reported recently the tho plight of a Cleveland doctor doctor doc doe tor who Is II trying to find the cause of the distinctive whoop He lIe had secured four chimpanzees at a cost of each He lie gave the disease to two of the animals an ao animals but kept the other two Isolated for a later experiment But Dut In some somo someway someway way these two also got tot it end and he Is unable to give any one of the four tour a second attack So he has hns to get a n new lot of chimpanzees before he can continue con coo tine his work Whooping cough Is transmitted from person to person In I secretions of the tho mouth and nose and by kissing and close doso contact It is not contagious during dur duro ing log the period of Incubation which which which-Is Is from two to three weeks weeks usually usually fourteen four tour teen to sixteen days but it can tie lie transmitted transmUted from the appearance of the first symptom and It Is II most contagious conta during the tho early stage before the whoop develops It may also aso be communicated communicated com com- In the late stages and for some somo time after litter convalescence We have not discovered any vaccine for It yet either for Its prevention or Its cure cure as as we have f for r diphtheria Dut But in 10 1000 two Belgian scientists and the famous Bordet discovered discovered dis covered the bacteria that cause causo whoopIng whooping whoop whoop- Ing cough These bacteria live fardown far tar fardown down In the bronchial tubes however and for a number of years doctors tried out various methods of raising the bacteria bacteria bac bac- teria terla to the tho surface but with many many patients they were not successful la in doing so sa Then ten teo years later two German scientists and Meyer Invented a cough plate which was perfected per by a Danish scientist Madsen This is a shallow tin box bos with a cover the size Ilze of the palm of the hand In which a special media Is III put The pan panIs panIs panis Is held before the mouth of the coughing coughIng coughing cough cough- ing child Then the cover Is II put on and the box sent to a laboratory to find out If It the whooping cough germ rm Is present The reason It is le advisable to have bave this test made Is la because some nervous children develop a cough that resembles resembles bles bes whooping cough and yet Isn't and It would be a hardship to Isolate them from other children And In 10 the first stages of whooping cough the cou cough h does not diner differ so much from the cough of a severe bronchial cold The point Is that If a child has become become become be be- come exposed to whooping cough couCh and then develops a cold that child should be suspected of having something more than thao a cold that wI will yield to home homo remedies A physician should be called at once and the culture made It If the culture Is positive then the child should be bo kept away from other children chit chil dren particularly babies There I is a strong ray of hope though In the whooping cough situation Several Sew Sev eral doctors here and abroad who art are devoting much time to whooping cough have made very promising progress in their development of a vaccine for its prevention and a serum for its cure They have hao been quite successful in la their treatment of a number of ot pa But Rut their treatment has not quite reached the stage where It can have hae the universal application that the diphtheria vaccines have hue When a child has hns whooping cough the state laws should be strictly fol lowed Some states now permit convalescent con children ch to play out of doors before the quarantine Is 18 lifted If they wear e r a wide l e band ban d fl roared around the arm with the words whooping cough on It Children who have had whooping cough are ere especially susceptible to tuberculosis tusk losis for some time after their recovery recover C Co Nw New r Union |
