New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-09


little chap whoopcd and coughed 4aas1lut impair
tally over his infant relative Snf his no baby sisters
none Of whom showed any signs Of having had the
disease
The mother who occupied a cogn Of vantage IN the
seat back of the nursemaid kept turning idly the leaves
Of fashion magazine except as she was aroused at IN
tervas by some exceptionally turbulent outburst from
her son. Then she would look up, and smile iat-iaced
smile Of satisfaction learn that her hopeful had not
vet choked TO death.
Such Stalled ignorance as this prosperous looking
woman exhibited was enough 20 turn ones blood cold.
She seemed not to have the slightest conception OF the
tremendous contagousness Of whoopng cough, or that
the disease in young children infants might be very
grave not to say fatal, ailment.
felt like paraphrasing Madam Roland with 20
Motherhood. what crimes are committed in thy name'
Instead made an ass Of myself by apoogetically telling
the lady that her whooping child was very serious
menace to her other three and that, in the interest oil
these three the little boy should be headed in the right
direction and provided with a handkerchief % whoop
in For this atrustic act was thanked with naughty
stare and an ntimation that II had any business 10
mind, had better mind it, and not be insulting de-
cent, respectable people-busily engaged in dissent
mating whooping cough in their own decent respec'
table way.
Treating every case as though it were most serious
condition-whch it is-and excusng the children from
all care and exeron until they completely cured,
would prevent threeourths OF the thousand deaths
from whooping cough that annually shame the United
States.
MUMPS is another highly contagious, but-among
Iva civilized races-not very fatal disease. Mothers
should learn to recognize its symptoms, 10 Is ex-
tremely common, and but rarely under the complete
care of a medical man.
Mumps usually makes its appearance a slight cold,
with perhaps little cough There is then period Of
Until
sibly headache, and some vomiting.
The child complains Of pain and feeling Of tglness
at the angle Of the Jaws right below the hinge This IS
followed by gradual enlargement OF one or both glands
under the jaw, running up the back OF the ear This
swelling has tendency to make cancature OF ra'lfE
beauty and a freak of an ordinary indiydual-i'r-
ticularly if he be a male adult There are few funur
sights than fullgrown, angry man with the mumpi.
He is swollen and pulled out that his protruie
in most grotesque fashion, and Involuntary you car
yourself watching for them 70 ~wgge.' They just
that kind Of ears Ringing in the ears and earac1e
are quite common. The attack usually lasts abo1,
week, after which the swelling gradually subsid..
and by the tenth twelfth day has completely dsH-
pcared.
The same septic symptoms that follow scarlet fever,
and to some extent measles, also occasionally seen
in mumps. Aliddle-ear trouble and deafness chronic
swollen joints kidney inflammation, and occasionally
that grave condition known meningitis lniamma'
ton Of the coverings Of the BRAIN may leave the victim
partly paralyzed for life speeches., or with de-
fectiye intellect or even totally blind.
SO do not make light Of mumps. In tact, II Is good
policy and shows excellent sense, not 20 despise any
physical ailment no matter how humble 1t may appear
TO be.
NHICKENPOX is another disease Of childhood that
~ is regarded more joke than disease. Ere
quenty the victim is not i'll enough TO remain IN bet
unless by due process OF force. Yet at times this dis
order flares up with all the virulence OF smallpox
which it has often been mistaken
Not so distinctly traceable but none the less serious
-. IN Inn nm r The conditions innuinr thD.- .-n-