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Show I COMMON COLD NEEDS ATTENTION. A doctor warns the public that the ordinary cold is to be as much guarded against as some of the com-: com-: ion ailments that ca'l for quarantine. He says there is no doubt that a cold lo contagious and easily passed on irom a sufferer to an innocent and so far iinafflieteJ hystander. If more people would realize that simple fact there would be fewer colds. Isolation Isola-tion of the person with a cold is the enly certain preventive against Its spread to others. Isolation, especially especial-ly in particular families, is, of course, in large measure impracticable. We lock our children up when they are threatened or afflicted with whooping rough, or measles, or chicken pox or with any of the even milder ailments of childhood, and health department? everywhere, of course, enforce the most rigorous quarantine agalnBt the deadlier diseases which, if not BO rroceeded against, would spread death throughout a whole city. But we take no such measures in the i matter of colds. ( "NOW, however, there is a general otfort to Impress upon the general , llblic the prudence and the wisdom I of taking similar precautions against tLe spread of the common cold. The public health as well as private comfort com-fort both would profit if general need were given to tho latest warnings of the department of health and charities chari-ties ay to the dangers Involved in catching cold. To remind people that pneumonia and consumption i ten have their origin in a common colrl ought in itself to be enough to lead them to guard against what is in its after effects oftentimes one of the most dangerous of diseases." |