The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-11-10

i sickness overtakes' him the pay to
the family physician stops. Do you
know il would cost less money, less
sickness and fewer deaths to employ
deficient sanitary officers than to
take chances OF becoming sick from
some of the preventable diseases and
then employ physician TO cure you?
"Pasteur has truthfully said, II
lis within the power of man to rid
himself of every parasitic disease.
This does not mean sometime in the
distant future, but it Is possible now
with our present knowledge of con-
ia eious diseases and m thods of pre-
vention
physicians can point out pre-
ventive measures. but until we car
arouse public sentiment sufficient to
co operate with MS in securing proper
sanitary laws and see that they are
enforced, we will still have our
frightful mortalities from diseases
that should never have occurred.
During the past year in Illinois
we had COS deaths from scarlet fever
a mortality greater than that
caused by the Iroquoise theater fire
We had 1902 deaths from diphtheria
laafh.t that
caused BY the sinking of the Titanic.
We had S93 deaths from typhoid
fever more than twice as many as
were lost in the Cherry mine disas-
or. had 6509 deaths from tub
nrculosis- more people died from
his cause alona last year in Illinois
than were hi, .ei on both sides drr-
~ tie Civil var in the three DAYS
cattle at Gettysburg.
le' these diseases are prerc.t-
able Every ease of scarlet fever,
liphtheria, smallpox typhoid, and
ta''rr,r csis is caused by the specific
ytsus flon som, previous case. The e
his ,ates 60 not originate spon N,
,cusly any more than blade of grass
grows out of the ground spontan2-
7usly. When we see the blade of
graSS sLoot up from the soil we
K ow tFat il originated from y Q
col r = similar grass planted thc-2
bv intention oil chance. So ii g
| With tn, tontagious disease.
''if ,he cases of dphtheria, sea"
- fever smallpox and typhoid
.,ver arc properly isolated until thov
| ,.e artlely well, and the excretiuls
| i.sinfected, clothing, bedding and
! III articles used sterlized, and the
! louse properly fumigated, there
should be no spread Of these diseases
from single case.
1T is the failure to observe these
rules that causes the wide dissem-
niration of the contagious diseases,
| Mild cases are often permitted 10
nm at large and mingle in public
,laccs instead of being isolated.
! Distinction and Elimination are Oh
en- improperly done, IL attempted at
II. Half way measures are worse
han none, because it gives your
leighb0rs and friends sense OF
alse security. While if you al
emptod nothing along this line
hey would have knowledge of dan
yer, shan YOU and fare much better
"A few years ago was called into
family, and found there foui
, children suf ring from scarlet
ever. At that time there was not
another case OF scarlet fever in our
| ,tv. and We were for while unable
0 account for he source of the con
agion. BIT on my second visit the
/, family gave me the following in
) sormation: One year previous
relative Of tha family, living II
! Evansville, Ind. had iost their only
/ child from scarlet fever. After tht
4 death of this rhild they carefully
d packed its clothing into box, ant
= set IT aside. where ii remained unit
# tho following winter. 1t then oc
9 CURED TO them that II would be
n good thing to Jay up some treasure
s in heaven by being little char
ftaDle. so they sent this box of cloth
ing to their poor relatives in MI
Vernon. This box arrived in du
tine, was opened ana distributed t
these children, and one week late
J they were all stricken with scaiie
fever.
: Some time ago it was reporte
I, that certain family in our cit
- We're AL afflicted with smallpox
: The place was promptly quaran
r tined, and all members Of the famil
. were kept on their own premises 70
3" several weeks. One day while o
= my way home the head OF this fam
y lily crosses the street and Joined mt
. ut once began to question hir
Y about his disinfection and fumiga
IL tiOn He told me that he ha