The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-10-27

tains conditions that foster ignorance What
chance has the poor mother anywhere in this
country 10 inform herself with regard 10 the rear
ing 0! children? What chance has the poor mother
in New York. She has no money with which
to pay physician for consultation ie she went
10 a physician paid by the city, she would hardly
know what TO do with her children while she
was away. She might leave them al day nursery.
II is true: but did you ever think how many more
day nurseries and how many more city physicians
should have TO have if every mother who
needs TO know how TO rear her children were 10
adopt this pIan2 We should have 10 have thou
sands and tens OF thousands more OF each. And,
If the community were intelligent enough 10 de-
mand such conveniences. 1t would be intelligent
enough not TO need most OF them. Therefore.
We who know enough not 10 need them are re-
spons.5le for the slaughter OF the children OF
those vho wont. And. is not that pleasant
thought?
How can intelligence prevail against the neglect
OF communities TO keep their water supplies pureZ
Almost every city claims 10 have pure water
Almost every city IS liar So long as We have
typhoid fever We shall know that We have not
pure water. The water supply OF nearly every
city is had part OF the year. One city drinks
the sewage Of another The contamination could
be prevented OF course. but it isn't. Detroit. for
instance. viii have another outbreak OF typhoid
fever next fall Scores. if nor hundreds Will die.
and the following autumn there will be another
outbreak Careful parents. OF course. can give
their children only boiled water TO drink at home,
but they saSnot be sure what their children
drink at school They can only hope Tor the best
and be thankful il they get it
The most deadly disease that threatens chill
dren this summer Is infantie paralysis. In June
reports cane from the south that the disease had
broken out in several widely separated places.
Dr. Simon Flexner. director OF the Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research. says II does not
F~f -ha- IN vii he r1fc =
the east and the middle west but he cautions
physicians and parents to be on me lookout
Infantile paralysis Is caused by living organ
ism so small that it readily passes through
germ-hlter OF The finest porcelain Il is believed
that this germ enters and finds Judgment in the
nose and that children whose noses are not clean
are most likely TO become injected
From experiments made upon monkeys az
Rockefeller Institute II is known that the average
period OF incubation IS little less than ten days:
that IS 10 say definite symptoms or the disease
appear ten days after the germ enters the sys-
TEN though illness has sometimes followed in
four days
The FIRST symptoms Of the disease appear TO
vary somewhat with the individual Also, no
individual mas all Of the symptoms Rsstlessness
and irTitabinty sometimes mark the approach
At other times there is apathy Also there may
be low fever for few days
Dr. William Palmer Lucas OF the Harvard Medi-
Cal ScHool "ho y OAs Vi the 'eautus AH'@SHsat"'S
Of the disease offers this general advice:
Headache. general or frontal is not infrequent-
Is net with in children old enough TO locate the
pain and this is often accompanied with rigi @ity
OF the neck If with any of these nervous mani
festations. there should be trouble in the uppeA
air passages such as bronchitis sore throat sus
picion should be aroused
But even If the dwisease. early in its progress
be correctly diagnosed. the best physician cannot
stop il. Like scarlet fever. measles and all other
germ diseases. this ailment must run its course