The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-22
MEASLES MAKE MANY
 MOTHERS MOURN
Over il ,00O Deaths From It in 19OO- Disease Should Not Be Fought,
 As Formerly.

days nearly every mother thought it her duty to see that her youngsters caught the measles and got over it -as a sort of EfiInmunization-
 Measles infection was often actually sought, so that mothers could know that their children were getting 1t, could take care of the sufferers, and, when the child was cured, the pa rents could feel that the youngster was immune from further attacks.
 Modem science has pointed out the lignant measles annually takes fear full bo1l of chf1dren's lives. Every pre- caution should be exercised to prevent infection. in + The following article tell measles was specially prepared by the assistant surgeon general of the U- s.
 Public Health Service:
 CBy Dr. w. c. Rncker.0
 Little Johnnie has the measles, what a cough and reddened nose! He is cross and mean and peevish and he's redder than 8, rose. Cooped up in the sunless PaGlor. little Jotannie 1yEhinHs 4,i e if you don't watch out
 Little Marys mother thought it
 wise to have the measles OCT, so she took her little daughter in to play with John next door. Two weeks lat CT, Mary sfckened and her little life went out Everyone of you will eaten it, if you don't watch out
 Over eleven thousand American chill dren died of measles in the year 1910. This did not include a, large number who died of broncho-pneunonia, great number of cases of which, in child1'ens are caused by measles Six. ty-e1ght and two-fentlns per cent. Of all deaths from broncT1o pneumonia occur in children under five years of age. a time of life when measles IS the rAvages of this disease is not complete without the mention of the large number of cases of tuberculosis which follow attack of it.. Less fre- quently inflammation of the ear or the eye may be left behind as @ mark of visitation of this common disease From public health standpoint then, measles is a disease of prime importance. Malignant measles make many mothers mourn.
 Johnnie was invited to a birthday party one Saturday afternoon and he had a fine time playing .'post-offce" and similar games. He did not no tice that two of the little girls with whom he had played had reddened Even if he had seen it he would not have known that they were in the be ternoon two weeks later, around about recess time, Johnnie noticed that his head did not feel right and he lost interest in the Nick Carter which he was reading between phe pages of his geography.
 When little Johnnie, gets the mea- sles, his mother is not long in finding 1t out. In the first place, she knows it is in the nefghborhood and sec ondly she realizes that when Johnnie comes home from school, and instead to the base burner in the sitting room and has a chdll, that Johnnie is prob ably beginning to have the measles: That night Johnnie's little cheeks and head are hot and dry. -He is thirsty. His face is red. TheFe Is slight swelling about his eyes and nose The whites of the eye-ba1ls show little red lines upon them, and poor Johnnie looks as though he was going to cry He sneezes a. good deal, and has sharp dry cough
 The next morning Johnnie's mother gets him in front of the window, puts ll1o the curtain, and bids him to open hds mouth while she holds the han de of a silver teaspoon his tongue, gling proceeds to make an exam1na- ton of his throat. All the back of his throat and hard palate are dull angry red. Perhaps there are few little red spots on the hard palate ana if Johnnie's mother had looked close at the lining membrane of the cheeks, whfte-tipped reddish spots. These are called t'KopIik's'' spots, and when seen are sure signs of measles.
 Johnnie stays home from school that day. and that night his fever is high CT than it was the night before. He rolls and losses about the bed, and wakes up his mother a good many times to ask for a drink of water. This sort of thing continues for three or four days, then one morning when Johnnie's mother is showing him how some little dusky red spots along the hadr line They look a good deal like flea. bites Within twenty-four hours that rash is spread all over his body, 1 bespeckled and swollen. In from five to seven days, the rash begins to fade and within three or four days, is en- tireIy gone away leaving behind it a faint, mottling of the skin- Then Johnnie begins to scale. There is a peeling off of the outer layers of the desqua11ation, as it is call ed, lasts about week or ten days. In the meantime the fever has gone 1 away, as soon as Johnnie has com p1etely finished scaling, he is permit ted to go out and play with the other boys. and before long is back at his desk in school. Johnnie had mild
 Little Mary lived right next door to Johnnie. She was a pretty little | girl, but not very robust Her mother teethfng She thought 1t would be a good time to let Mary have the mea- s1es and get all over it before the 1 bridge season began; go she took as soon as, she heard that he had hIse | This was not very long af- 1 ter Johnnie was first taken sick, be cause the electric telegraph is a tor toise compared with the way that l news travels in small community Just two weeks later Mary was taken | H. Her case was not like Johnnies. | Instead of n9oping around somewhat [ out of sorts, little Mary had a con vuIsion, her fever was very high, and l the eruption when it came out in- | stead of being a good healthy look 1 ing red, was 2. bluish, black discOlor- | atfon which looked like a recent l orl1ise.
 She had such a, hard time breathing | that she had to be propped up in the | bed, and every time she coughed she | cried out with the pain that racked | her poor little chest. Little Mary's | blue eyes were longer bright and | one morning all the pain and suffer | ing went a-way-onIy, Mary never 1 a1woke. Mary had a. severe case of |