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Show Guard Your Health , (The State Board of Health sent the j following intormaaon to Dr. P. L. Hol-:ir;.r Hol-:ir;.r and The Pyra n' 1 is passing it on i'.l.e Fublic.) Epidemic Crebropinal Meningitis Ihreaicning outbreaks of Meningitis i Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis .have appeared in several sections of the State, and the active cooperation of health officers, physicians and State citizens in general is urged for the prevention pre-vention of 1 lie spread of the disease. With this object in view the following tacts concerning the disease and approved ap-proved methods of control are submitted submit-ted for careful consideration and guide-ance: guide-ance: Source Of Infection Discharges from the nose and mouth of infected persons. Clinically recovered recover-ed cases, and healthy persons who have never had th" disea e but have been in contact with cases of the disease or other carriers, act as ca'Tiers and are . r-mmonly found, especially duriir: epidemics. epi-demics. Mmlc Of Transmission Tiy direct contact, with inferied p'-v-nis and' earners, and indireclly by ontaet with arlicles freshly soiled with he na al anil mouth discharges cf .ich persons. Imulial inn rYriod Two to ten days, romuionlv seven. V'ca:i(,,iallv for lone,.,- jirriods ilcn. p is. n is a (airier for a time before vi 1' p:m; the disease. I'eriod if ('imuminiealiility Diiriuf the clinical course of the lisea.'.e and until the specific oiran-imii oiran-imii is no loneer )resent in the nasal and momh dischari:es of the patient. The same applies to healthy .carriers i far as afreets persistence of infect-ous infect-ous discharges. Aletmls of ('oiitrol Early reco'inition of (he disea-.-p "liniral symptoms, conlirmed by the nieros.i opic and bacterioloideal ex-iminalion ex-iminalion of the spinal lluid. and by ;aelerioliii:ical exaininat ion of nasal ind pharyngeal secret ions. Isolallon of I he infecled persons for :1 days arier onset of the disease and until the nasal and pharyngeal secre-..ions secre-..ions are proved by baetrriolcieiral uiuiiaUon to be free from I lie inleelini; .il'Sinism. Oilier members of the 'iimily to be forbidden to attend school, places of amusement or public aalher-iniis. aalher-iniis. Quarantine of carriers until the mini mi-ni and phiiryni'oul secretions are iroved by bacteriolo::ical examination irbe free from the Inleelini; organism. Search for carriers iinioni; families md associates of recounted cases by )acterlolo!;ical examination of poster-or poster-or nines of all contacts, Kduealion us to personal cleanliness md neccssllv of iivoidini: conlael. and Iropli't inlection. Prevention of overcrowdini; in living liiartcrs and other places. Concur-,ent, Concur-,ent, Pislnteclion of dischnriies from he nose and mouth and of art tries Milled therewith. Terminal 1 )isinl'eel ion - - Thoroueh leanin::, sunniui; and alriim of house. Iii,iininiat Ion by Ihe use of N iiecines is slid In Ihe experimenlal slane. |