Show whooping cough reported A case of whooping cough has been reported in monticello public health nurse fern wood states that this is the first case here in the last four or five years which means that many of the younger children have never been exposed and have no immunity to the disease whooping cough is a dangerous disease in young children and one contracting it this early in the winter season would probably be unable to get over it before spring A state health bulletin says that the average case ot whooping cough lasts from two t to three months and that in recent years it has killed more young children than all ther childhood diseases com ed ildren under three years of as may suffer beverly from whooping cough about 24 of infants under six months of age who get whooping cough die there are also many complications resulting from the disease among the most dreaded is pneumonia it 4 g iwata clr to p copt children from getting g whooping cough through an immunization program babies may be im within one to two months of aue age in case of an outbreak in the community of this dreaded disease it would be a fine thing to have all of the children immunized A clinic for this purpose is being held thursday january 3 in the court house |