Show immunize Im immunization lion Is boon to children abonce A PHYSICIAN friend of mine once confided the following to me 1 I wish we had lived in a poor and more thickly populated section of the city when my youngsters were small they would have had all the childhood diseases measles scarlet fever chickenpox chicken pox whooping cough and have become immune to free from virtually all ailments now they are grown I 1 do not think many parents would choose this method of strengthening their children because the complications from these childhood ailments might have resulted in partial deafness heart disease and even death there is however a way of protecting children from many of these diseases it is called the immunization atio of the children in an article by prof C S raue M D philadelphia writing as guest editor of the medical world it is said earliest immunization the earliest immunization procedure Is vaccination against smallpox sm ill the best time to vaccinate an infant is between the third and the sixth month at this age complications are less likely to occur and there is little or no danger of brain inflammation following vaccination after the infant is six months old there should be immunization against whooping cough it is claimed that 80 per cent ol of ch children ildren receiving sauer whooping 9 cough vaccine will two to three months after vaccination be immune for several years nine months Is the age to immunize against diphtheria the horror ot of diphtheria is almost unknown to young parents today the advisability of immunizing against scarlet fever is not fully endorsed by the medical profession it is left to the physicians judgment in each case there is no vaccine tor for obtaining permanent immunity against measles but a child exposed to measles may be protected by an in injection ot of placental tae globulin elo bulin |