The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-14
HOW TO AVOID
 SCARLET FEVER
SIMPLE RULES TO BE FOLLOW ED TO PREVENT PRESENT EPI- DENHC FROM SPREADING.

In view of the fact that there are now 7s cases of scarlet fever in this city, the following rules in regard to avoiding the contagion will prove val uable at this time:
 Scarlet fever, also called scarlet rash scarlatina or kanker rash, is one of the most contagious diseases. While it is commonly found only among chill dren, yet itA may be taken also by adults.
 Scarlet fever is extremely dangerous and fatal among children under ten years of age. Adult persons some times have the disease. Adults gen. orally have it in a milder form, yet from a very mild case a malignant and fatal form of the disease may arise. Particularly is this true among chil- dren; adults showing the least signs of scarlatina should avoid communica- tion with children in any. way.
 The special contagion of scarlet fe- yer is found in Scaly growth. The loose and flying skin scales are. how ever, very dangerous, and the conta- zion may be conveyed by chem through clothing, food, the hair or books, or indeed through almost anything touch ed by the sick while the scaling or pee1ing is going on.
 The period of infection in scarlet fe- yer is very long. A patient is danger ous so long as the scaling continues, and this sometimes is not completed days.
 The actual life of the germ may be of even greater duration. If it finds Judgment in cloths of clothing, espe- cially woolens, it may remain danger ous for years. The disease begins to be transferable or dangerous with the very incubation.
 Giuca fha .1inino rnnY1a 11ra nos If r11n11ft, and intestines are affected. it follows that the discharges are most danger Ous and that careleSsneSS in ventila- ton may greatly increase the danger of spreading the disease. Tn the same way disinfection and sanitary meas ires are of great power as preventa- tives.
 The interval of time which may elapse after exposure to the contagion of scarlet fever and during which a susceptible person so exposed may ex- pect to be taken sick with the disease, varies from one to fourteen dasvs.
 The Surest preventativeS of thA ex- tension of scarlet fever are disinfecrion and isolation of the sick. Every case of scarlet fever, however mild, should be immediately isolated.
 Isolation should include not only those already taken down with the dis ease, but suspected cases as we'll. w d fever, and especially when this is ac- companied by rash on the body, the child should immediately be isolated as completely as possible from other members of the household and from other persons. until physician has seen it and has determined whether it has scarlet fever.
 Except it be disinfected, no letter or paper should be sent through the mail from an infected place.
 Persons who are attending upon children or other persons suffering from scarlet fever. and also the mem bers of the patients family, should not ming1e with other people nor per- init the entrance of children into their house.
 Householders and physicians should immediately give notice of the first case, and of every case of scarlet fe- yer, to the health officer, in order that the public may be suitably warned to avoid visiting the house.
 Avoid by every means in your power the special contagion of the disease. Keep away from the sick room, from the infected house. even from the To- cality. This is especially important for children and for all whose throats are sore from any cause.
 Do not let child go near a case of scarlet fever If you find it necessary for yourself to visit case, bathe yourself and change and disinfect your clothing before you go where there is claild.
 Allow no dog. cat or other animal to enter the sick room, a pet animal may carry the disease to a child
 Allow no dishes. toys and, above all, no books to be brought from the sick room to child. Any such books should simply be burned.
 Do not permit child to enter a privy or water closet, or breathe the air from privy, water closet, cess pool. or sewer, into which non-disin- fected discharges from persons sick with scarlet fever may have entered, nor to drink water or milk which has