Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1911-11-17

tans conditions that foster ignorance. What
chance has the poor mother anywhere In this
country to inform herself with regard to the rear
ing of children? What chance has the poor mother
In New York? She has no money with which
to pay a physician for consultation. lie she went
to a physician paid by the city, she would hardly
know what to do with her children while she
away She might leave them at a day nursery.
II is true; but did you think how many more
day nurseries and how many more city physicians
we should have to have If every mother who
needs to know how to her children were to
adopt this plan? We should have to have thou
sands and tens OF thousands more of each And
il the community were intelligent enough to de-
mand such conveniences. 1t would be intelligent
enough not to need most OF them. Therefore
we who know enough not to need them re-
sponsible for the slaughter of the children OF
those who won't And is not that pleasant
thought?
How can intelligence prevail against the neglect
of communities to keep their water supplies pure?
Almost every city claims to 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 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. win have another outbreak OF typhoid
fever next fall Scores. 1t 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 can only hope for the best
and be thankful If they get 1t.
The most deadly disease that threatens chill
dren this summer Is infautile paralysis In June.
reports came from the south that the disease had
broken out in several widely separated places
Or 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 the lookout
infantile paralysis Is caused by living organ
ism so small TINT it readily passes through
germiiser OF the finest porcelain 1t is believed
that this germ enters and finds Judgment In the
nose. and that children whose noses are not clean
are most likely become injected
From experiments made upon monkeys al
Rockefeller Institute II is known that the average
period OF incubation is little less than ten days;
that Is 10 say detnite symptoms OF the disease
appear ten days after the germ enters the sys-
sem though Illness has sometimes followed in
four days
The first symptoms OF the disease appear TO
vary somewhat with the individual Also,
has all OF the symptoms Rsstiessness
and .rritabiity sometimes mark the approach
AZ other times there is apathy. Also there may
be J low fever for few days
DR. William Palmer Lacas OF the Harvard Med
cal school, who Ia enc OF the leading Investigators
Of the disease. offers this general advice;
Headache general or frontal. is not infrequent
" met with in children old enough to locate the
pain. and this is often accompanied with rigidity
Of the neck. II with any of these nervous mani
there should be trouble in the upper
.ir passages such as bronchitis or throat
picion should be aroused
But even II the dwisease. early in It's progress.
be correctly diagnosed. the best physician
stop IT, Like scarlet fever, measles and all other
germ diseases this aiiment must run It's course