Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1914-12-17

symptoms may be at schsoi and /
be a source of active infection.
The contagion of measles soon
loses It's virulence and the danger
of the third person carrying the |
infection Is thus minimi2ed.
The incubation period IS III TO |
IA days and children who have
been exposed should be isolated |
for at least that number of days.
The duration of the infactive |
period il about three weeks and
those having the disease must
be isolated for that period Of time
in order to prevent its spreading.
Measles are often regarded by
the laity as being 50 mild q dis
ease that the prevention isI
Thought ct little Importance and
no effort Is made To limit its ex-I
tension. The great probability
THAT every person at some time
LOT his life will have the disease
lis no justification of unnecessary
|exposure.
The idea among the laity that
Iall children must at some time
ahave those eruptive fevers Of
lchildhood is erroneous, because ii
Iis only when we violate natures
1 laws that the germs can get the
best Of us, good health ii ireom-
lpatible with o-organisnls that
4 cause disease and therefore al
long as We live in perfect har-
mony with nature 4 state of good
health will exist.
While the disease il usually
mild in the older children. this
Is not true in infants and chill
dren with tendencies to tuhercu.
losis and other pulmonary dis.
eases.
Among the eruptiye fevers
measels ranks third in death
rate. The mortality from ths
disease itself is not high. but tht
pulmonary complications rendel
it one of the most serious Of tho
diseases of children.
Imported in 1876 from Sydney
by II. M. S. Dido to the Fiji Is
lands, 10000 out Of $150,O00 oi
the inhabitants died in foul
! months.
Paum, the distinguished Dan
| lish physician described the wild.
/ spread and fatal epidemic which
! Idecimated the inhabitants Of ths
Farce Islands In 1886.
/ The mortality in private prac
I ltice is from 2 to 3 per cent.
I Al WORD ABOUT SCARLET FEVER
3 Scarlet fever is an acute infec
! tious disease characterized by
! defuse ezanthem and an angin;
I of variable intensity.
I No other disease varies 8
I greatly in the intensity Of th,
I outbreaks, which is point Of th
I greatest Importance, because nj
I matter how mild the case may b
I 1.-THE chances Of spreading it ar
I equally great. And the fact tha
I Fit is mild in a certain case is N
I assurance that it viii not be Q
! THE most malignant character i
! the next case.
= Most of what / said abou
I measles is true of scarlet feve
I except that a longer quarantin
I land more thorough disinfectio
Z is necessary.
II AT the present time the worl
Z lat large Is busy thinking of ant
Z war resolutions and talking abou
4 the gruesom nlan-slaughter
( Europe, but hardly one anon
I THE laity gives the great healt
I $lproblems a thought that hay
Z been and constantly are confron
Z ling us. Whoever stops to thin
4Ithat one single epidemic Of small
Z pox in Russia devoured more h.
4Iman lives then than has bee
$lkilied in all the previous EuroI
tean wars. and that it would hay
q been impossible to build the Par
llama canal, IL we couldn't hav
4Ialnost extinguished the yello'
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