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Show oo WHOOPING COUGH HAS WORMED COUNTY EDUCATORS Suporini endent of County Schools W. N. Petterson reports that quite an extensive epidemic of mumps and whoopingcough prevails in some of the school districts, compelling a large number of students to remain j at home. Otherwise, Mr. Petterson ) states, the schools are making good progress and the best possible results re-sults are being obtained. He states that strict quarantine of all contagious con-tagious diseases is always kept and in the past the diseases have been held in check. At the meeting of the board of education edu-cation today, President Stratford reported re-ported that about fifteen families have been quarantined for whooping-cough whooping-cough at Wilson but there is a question ques-tion as to whether it really Is whoopingcough. whoop-ingcough. He is of the opinion that it is nothing more than the ord1nar cold, a rompanied by considerable coughing. Mr. Stratford stated to the board that the attention of the county physician had been called to the situation situa-tion and he was requested to make a diagnosis in the Wilson district, but the physician had refused to make the examination. It was decided that a communication communica-tion should be directed to the county board of commissioners, asking as to what the duties of the county physician physi-cian are in such cases, Mr. Stratford Strat-ford stating that it is possible that he had Imposed on the physician In asking him to do something that he is not required to do as the county doctor The county physician, Dr. A A. Robinson, states that he has never refused to go where it was his duty to go, respecting contagious diseases, but that m the Wilson case, he considered con-sidered it not necessary, as the situation situa-tion was well in hand by the health officer there. He says that the health officer has quarantined a number of families in Wilson for whooping-cough whooping-cough and he thinks there is no question ques-tion but that he knows what he is doing |
