Show ww- ww EPIDEMIC OF OF MEASLES A A number ot of cases of measles were d to tile the health department on Tuesday and the Indications are an epi cpi epidemic demic of ot the disease is sweeping over OHr the community Dr S W tV Winne in American Medicine points out the dangers s ot of a tile the dis dis- dis case ease Measles he sas sa's says Is high hish ly l infectious and virtually every elery everyone one who has not had It is is issus sus sus- sus susceptible BU Practically It remains con lined to childhood for or tho ho fre quency of the tho epidemics keeps It largely among children under five fhe years ars of or age ee But grown people are c not Ilot immune unless they hav have ha had It lt It and if K the tile time lime comes hen the disease disappears for tw twenty nty or thirty years yeal's a recur rence ence would l be as disrupting as as Measles In Itself is sufficiently sufficient unpleasant and the tue death rate among young hl Is appal appal- appalling ling hag But many deaths t as caused by bronchial pueu pneumonia monia are really caused by measles followed by pneumonia It is estimated that 60 per cent disease dis disease of au all deaths from the latter ease occur In children under five years ot of a age a time when wIlen measles is ig most likely to attack children Tuberculosis Is all too frequently caused by measles and inflammation mation ot of o the eye or ear sometimes some some- sometimes sometimes times results These facts are brought ought out I just now because the public Is too likely to look on measles as asan an an Inevitable and not very ery serious seri serl serious ous accompaniment of childhood But It leaves in Its wake abe many aud permanent ailments and If it a achild child chUd is known n to to- hive base been ex- ex exposed exposed posed or develops symptoms treatment should be begun immediately Ini im mediately It Is very ery contagious during the catarrhal stage singe which precedes the rash ash by three thre or four days making it important to protect the child from other youngsters who appear to 10 have hale no more than a cold In lu the head bad After Arter complications ba have bale e level It Is I often too late to help heln The child is isolated adequate I I I nursing brings the lh childs child's resist resist- resistance resistance ance to the highest point through careful feeding and the ears are examined dally daily for Cor indications o ol The serum treat treat-ment treat treat- meat ment which Is not yet perfected may mar be use usei with nith lh hope o of suc SUI success success cess t n nI |