The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-09-18
SCARLET FEVER IS
CAUSE Of WORRY
CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Is
MAKING FIGHT ON DISEASE
AMONG CHILDREN.
PARENTS MUST HELP
DELAY IN CALLING PHYSICIAN Is
FREaUENTLY THE CAUSE OF
SPREADING DISEASE TO -
OTHERS.

/ Scarlet fever has made It's appear
ance in Richmond and Is causing the
! city health department some uneasi-
ness. DR.. c. e. Hudson, medical In
! spector Of the department has issued
the following statement Ia connec-
ton with the disease
iAlI contagious diseases are. more
or less limited to one season. Measles
and mumps are spring and early
summer diseases. Typhoid fever is
the installation of the settling basin
has done away with our water borne
! typhoid. Autumn Is the season when
! two of our most dangerous diseases,
diph iberia and scarlet fever, are more
| liable TO make their appearance. Few
| cases of diphtheria are being reported
| still everyone should be on the look
out for diphtheria in his child from
| now until February, and should have
! a physician to see any case of sore
i throat which may develop. Scarlet
/ fever is causinr some uneasiness to
the city health department During
the last week the following cases have
been reported
| Elsie Turner. 2201 Short @ street;
| Earl Cheatham. 623C North Thirty
! first street: Howard Leesfield, 1921
| Floyd avenue; John Phaup. 1920 West
Main street, Harold Ewell, 100 West
| HUI street. Archie Beales. 1443
Jacquelin street; May Turner 2201
! Short q street. John I. Fowler, TIA
| West Marshall street; Helen Fer
guson. 1919 Jacquelin street, Lottie
| Jackson. 1903 South Lombardy street;
Eugene Charles. AIS South Harrison
street; Edwin Cox. Shenandoah Apart
/ C Anr 70 h Low
street, Jane Dickinson and Hannah
| Dickinson, 1s South Rowland street;
Mamie Sturz, 1011 Meade street Lee
roy Tyler. 1434 Claiborne street: Flor
ence Askew, 2204 1-2B West Cary
street.
Mostly in West End.
1T will he seen from n study of the
above cases that the disease is chief
| iy confined to the western half OF the
city. Almost all cases now under
quarantine are located south of Main
! street in that part of the city. A
| few cases have been reported in Fair
! mount and other sections, Scarlet
| fever IL usually a very mild disease,
and many of the cases NOW under
| quarantine are OF Il very mild type.
| Some of the cases. are very severe
| with marked throat symptoms and a
very red eruption. A few of the pa
tients are very i'll at the present time
and il is not known whether or not
two of them will survive the attack.
Scarlet fever is a very difficult dis
ease to diagnose correctly. The cardi-
nal symptoms are sore throat. fever.
vomiting, a red, popular eruption and
| the strawberry tongue, Amy child
who has a sore throat should be placed
la It room by itself at once and a
| physician called to see 1t, No child
! should be allowed to visit ii, and it
should be kept isolated until the ply
/ stefan is sure that it has neither scar
! let fever nor diphtheria.
Should be Public Spirited.
Everyone living in the vicinity of
| cases are warned not to visit the
house where the case Is located, as
the germs may be carried In the
clothing, They should not allow
| their children tn play about the
street in front of the houses, or to
go into the yards with the children
who are quarantined. Many people
seem not 10 fear scarlet fever. and
allow their children TO go TO the lawns
while "A placard is upon the door. Such
negligence is often rewarded by the
ohiId's taking the disease and having
| its life endangered because of this
neglect The mild cases of scarlet
/ IeFer are usually The source of lnfec-
| ton in other children,
A few people are not public spir-
| tied enough to call a physician when
! they think their children have
! contagious disease, and prefer to let
! the child run the danger of remain
| ing untreated rather than have 1t
guaranteed, Such children go about
! giving the disease to others and are
often discovered by the medical in
| spector while investigating cases con-
tracted from them. Only last Friday
one of the above cases was found
playing with number of boys on the
streets while peeling. II you know
of any child in your vicinity who is
! jill and has any Of the above symp-
toms and whose family have had no
physician phone the city board of
health, Madison 1895, give the name
and address of the child, and the
medical inspector viii visit the home
and ascertain the nature of the COM
plant You may thus prevent sew
eral cases of scarlet fever hmong
your own, or Your neighbours children,
and do good service to those around
|yon