The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1911-10-28

tains conditions that foster ignorance. Wnat
chance has the poor mother anywhere IN TINS
country to inform herself with regard to the rear
ing Of children? What chance has the poor mothef
in New York? She has no money with which
to pay physician for consultation lie she Went
to physician paid by the city, she would hardly
know what to do with her children "nlle sne
away She might leave them at day nursery.
It is true; but did you ever think how many more
day nurseries and how many more city physicians
we should have to have If every mother VINO
needs to know how to rear her children were TO
adopt this plan? We should have to have thou-
sands and tens OF thousands more of each And,
If the community were Intelligent enough to de-
mand such conveniences. 1t would be Intelligent
enough not to need most of them. Therefore.
who know enough not to need them are re-
spopsble for the slaughter OF the children OF
those who won't And, is not that a pleasant
thought?
How can Intelligence prevail against the neglect
of communities to keep their water supplies pure!
Almost every city claims have pure water.
Almost every city is liar So long as we have
typhoid fever. shall know that we have not
pure water The water supply OF nearly every
city Is bad part OF the year One city drinks
the sewage of another The contamination could
be prevented. of course, but 1t isn't Detroit. for
instance. will have another outbreak OF typhoid
fever next fall Scores. II not 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 cannot be sure what their children
drink at school They only hope for the best
and be thankful If they get it.
The most deadly disease that threatens chill
dren this summer is infantie paralysis. In June
reports came 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 1t does not
follow that the disease will again be epidemic IN
the east and the middle west but he cautions
physicians and parents to be on the lookout
Infantile paralysis is caused by a living organ
germ-flter of the finest porcelain 1t Is believed
that this germ enters and finds lodgment in the
nose, and that children whose noses are not clean
are most likely hecovle injected
From experiments made upon monkeys at
Rockefeller Institute it is known that the average
period incubation is little less than ten days;
that is to say definite symptoms OF the disease
appear ten days after the germ enters the sys
tenn though illness has sometimes followed in
four days
The first symptoms OF the disease appear to
vary somewhat with the individual. Also. no
individual has all of the symptoms Restlessness
and irritability 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 who is OF the leading investigators
of the disease, offers this general advice:
Headache general frontal is not tnfrequent
" met with in children old enough to locate the
pain and this is often accompanied with rtgidfty
Of the neck II with any OF these nervous mani
festations there should re trouble in the upper
air passages such as bronchitis throat
picion should be aroused
but even n the dwtsease early in its progress.
be diagnos ed, the best physician cannot
stop II Like scarlet fever. measles and all other
germ diseases his aiiment must run its course