Show let I 1 ou f motto ott be Go WEAlTH GP GOOD PD I fiealt 1 E L 0 T BY Y L ro P c i jl I 1 so J as MEASLES FA S LF S has long be dis arl M as A childhood that think see to parents eam S one has 10 have measles every 10 and the best thing to 3 er or have it over and have it n III to cent eh at vj per estimated with it is si bad it just because of adults have high not have an such ch a measles does doe and scarlet death rate fate as smallpox fever two other ether diseases disease character character zed ted by a rash 1 is no DO creaso 1 why we will 1 all if we w should let it continue it 11 out ot wort work together we can stamp succeeded as we have nearly with smallpox in children over wren seven yeam year complications is 1 not a measles without in children U under toder serious disease rut put under three six years fears particularly years tears measles too often resul results t 1 in 1 death or the child develops deT pneumonia from it IL and or ear car infections then death way may follow these diseases or the child may sustain some gome other I 1 ailment that he be will carry through ufa life during an average measles year in a measles egide epidemic mic occurs every second or third year there were cases with deaths pai most of the deaths were in the under six year group this tally does not take into account the children who died from pneumonia following follo lo X the attack of measles if it had bad the number of victims would have hate been much larger measles begins as a common sore bore throat and head bead cold ailment the child Is feverish and irritable then about the fourth day the distinctive measles rash occurs this rash Is very diffuse it looks as if the skin had been rubbed with pale red ink the patient Is sick for at least another five days in the case of older children who are put to bed and kept quiet and warm under a physicians care there Is little to worry about we do not know what causes measles but we do know that itis contagious during the early head bead cold stage of the dise disease asp before the skin rash appears in fact its difficult to diagnose a head cold as the beginning stage of measles before the rash has appeared Cons consequently consequent equen aly if there are any measles in the neighborhood and your child develops a head bead cold and sore throat keep him or her isolated from other children who have not had bad measles in a that way you yon can help protect the other children or there la Is a better way of protecting the child who has not had measles science has not been able to develop a vaccine against measles as it has against smallpox and typhoid since it does not know the causative agent of measles but it has fins learned that if the blood of a person who has had measles Is injected into a child who has not had bad measles the child can be prevented from having the disease if the child his has been exposed to measles the injection should be given within four days after the time of exposure as that Is the period of incubation of the disease if the child has already reached the head bead cold stage the injection will mean a less severe case than would ot otherwise herIse occur the blood injection must be made by a physician it Is not given straight L the blood Is mixed with a sterile solution of sodium citrate which prevents the blood from clotting the injection Inject lou is then a very simple matter VI vials als of sterile solution of sodium citrate are supplied by the departments of health of many states to practicing physicians tree free of charge many physicians make a practice of harln them on hand always 0 the best blood to get comes from a person who Is in the convalescent stage of the disease five cubic centimeters or one sixth ounce of L convalescent measles serum will protect a child from measles if this convalescent serum Is not available then the blood of a person who has recovered from measles one to live years previously Is next best more of this blood Is required though and if the blood Is not available then the blood of one of the parents or any other adult who has had the disease in childhood can be used it requires five to six times the amo amount of blood from adults as it does from conval convalescent escen I 1 c cases a se 8 to give immunity A person very rarely has measles twice once aves immunity the epidemics generally begin around christmas and extend to spring the peak of an epidemic Is us usually bally reached I 1 in to late february or early march but cases occur all the year round and it Is wise to be on the V watch n as school begins there were an exceptional number of cases throughout the united states last year it la Is not a record to be proud of we cannot emphasize too strongly that parents should make every effort to keep their children froni from contracting the disease particularly children under six years of age also special pains should she old be taken to keep the child who Is 13 under par physically on account of III health or lack jack of proper nourishment from f rom exposure to measles measles takes a big toll of very young children and of undernourished children isolation of a measles case prevents the spread of 0 the disease if through accident a young child Is exposed your physician can prevent the development of measles by using convalescent vale scent serum if he be considers such it a procedure advisable 0 newspaper union |