| Show DR mm OF HEALTH department fi an ZON inspection during the week dr johnson of fihe the state health department was in town on the course of a tour of inspections of towns in part of the state he took cognizance of the whooping cough situation hero bl e re andt took on to point out that any neighbor or other person may demand that an other ather house be qui aran on suspicion if tile the people f fail ill to report a suspicious auspicious cough and under state law the thel tf lag flag must remain up un 1 til a physician lla made madea a biag 4 many people peoples seem cem to car r ry y the impression that city officials must diagnose dlag noie such cases images fred 0 vider chalee chal ee this ahn is not the cad case under ahe lar lav any physician 1 fg required to report any aa cape s e of contagious disease coming com I 1 0 hi his s notice if a place is quarantined on suspicion it is the business of the people concerned a physician if inthey they have any doubt that a contag tous i presen I 1 dr Johi pointed out that in many ashe cashes of oft the fie aado whooping P ping goligh we th C C ornit ilir iti ittes as tho the patients cough without whooping hooping AA and many people are unlined to lot the cough go until whooping begins be fote fore taking gony ony steps to prevent its spread I 1 it is his opinion that pvc every ry cough itt at present should be quarantined on suspicion whether the patient Sv whoops hoops or not n 0 t to wait until whooping begins begin s is declared to be criminal negligence on the part of the families concerned it yas lie le clarca blared to be the duty of every family to report any kind of cough and if they fail they efio should not complain if other do so 80 for them in fact they should consider hem themselves selves lucky to escape prosecution it was pointed out that it sometimes takes a few deaths to bring some cit zeni j realization of their duty TaCe V pori that nine babics babies had died during the winter and alii I 1 tier ner in in a neighboring taj town n 6 to have had little effect V conscience of the inhabit bof of some other towns w Joh johnson loon urged the of r rj r j vaccine faccine both for this and other contagious maladies for which an effective serum scrum has been faa found especially for typhoid fever A simple milk makes es nl al most absolute safety safely 1 |
