Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-23
STATE HOUSE,.
State Board Of Health
Issues Leaf|et No. II.
Returns Of Elections by Coast
Artillery and Infantry.
Departments About All Moved Into
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departments About All Moved Into
the New Capitol.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Council
Friday, Dec. 80, at 10 A. M,


The Office of the State Board of Health
ana is now ready for distribution. A
great deal of interest is manifested in
these leaflets and the current one on
injection Carriers" the text of which
is given in part below will be of espec-
ial interest:
injection Carriers-The whole world of
medical and of public health research is
moving swiftly. 1t is rapidly discovering
truths which are of the greatest value
to us all about the causes Of disease,
their prevention, and their cure. One
thing which has been brought ont more
clearly of late years Is. that it sometimes
happens that n person who appears to
be we'll or only slightly sick, may carry
the injection of dangerous diseases in
MS system and thus be a danger TO other
persons. So in preventing the spread OF
infectious diseases, there is this newly
found danger TO keep in mind. Aside
from guarding against the spread of in
lection from persons sick with the plain
forms Of these diseases, and from the
things and houses and places which they
have Infected, we must remember the
possibility OF these infection carriers
And that is a very serious danger. That
accounts for many cases Of infectious
diseases which continue to spring up
long after the health officer thinks that,
according to the rules Of the game, they
should stop.
Dlphtheria-The germ of diphthcria
the infection, the diphtheria bacillus),
finding Its way into the throat or nose,
multipltes. as the seed does which falls
upon fertile soil with warmth and rnois-
ture to It's liking. The germ may sim
ply multiply and not make the person
sick. 1t does not make him sick be-
cause he Is immune, that Is, he cannot
take the disease even though he re-
coives the infection. But he is an infec
ton carrier. He is dangerous to other
persons. thonoh tn infection is not dan
gerous to him. Again. the dphtheria
infection may grow and multiply and
cause a slight sore throat, or quite
severe inflammation of the throat, which
does not look like diphtheria. In these
cases, the person with the sore throat is
a dangerous infection carrier. The third
kind of dphtheria infection carrier IS
the person who has had diphtheria in its
plain form and has recovered. He may
lection still fingers in his throat or in
the cavities Of his nose. While il docs
he. too, IS a dangerous infection carrier
of this terrible disease.
1t sometimes happens that cases Of
dlphtheria keep springng up in a school
or n community after every required
precaution has apparently been observed.
Such continued outbreaks are most like
" due to an unreCognized mild case OF
d!phtreria or n person who is walking
manufactorv Of aiphtheria Infection.
And how shall the person who is thus
probably innocently spreading sickness
and death be found out? 1t can only Ia
done by sending TO the laboratory sam
pies from the throat on small SWANS o.
sterilized cotton which have been applied
to the throat and then enclosed in glass
tubes But this is work for the doctors
and the health officers.
Typhoid Fever-There are also typhoid
infection carriers: persons who have the
disease in 4 very mild form who perhaps
walk around meanwhile all the time
spreading infection, and persons VINO.
some weeks or months, or even years
ago had tvphoid fever and continue, in
their kidneys or intestinal canal. or gall
bladder, to offer a favorable field OF
growth for the infection Ohe typhoid
hacillus). The discharges from such
norson cndangcr other persons in his
household and in his neighborhood.
Scarlet Fcver-In scarlet fever there
are also infection carriers. Ihere are
cases of sore throat. sometimes very
mild and sometimes somewhat severe
with no rash whatever, and stlll these
attacks may be caused by inc ihicc'ioi'
of scarlet fever. They are, IN fact' cases
.. ecorlet fever. These cases may spread
infection which produces typical ana
malignant scarlet fever After inc r.
covery from scarlet fever IS apparently
complete, a discharge from the nose or
ear, or a continued sore throAt n''S
spread infection.