Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-10-22
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WHoOpiNG COUGH PREVALENT

It's no worse for my child to
give Whooping cough to other peo-
pies children than it was for other
peoples children to give it to mine.
Anyway, it's better for them to have
it now and have it over with
The speaker was a Wisconsin
mother to whom a community nurse
was protesting against the mothers
absolute refusal to keep her 'Whoop-
ing child at home and away from
healthy children. The attitude is by
no means an uncommon one and so
long as it is held by one mother in
the state it seems to me most i'm
pOrtant that popular misconception
concerning this disease be replaced,
or at least counteracted, by reliable
information.
If the bubonic plague were to kill
ten thousand children in the Unit
ed States in one year, as whooping
cough does, the whole world would
quarantine against our country de-
clares DR.. Rucker. And he adds "a
child dead of Wh0oping cough is just
as dead as a child dead of plague"
Whooping cough is prevalent now
and will, if it follows it's regular
practice, increase in the aggregate
number of it's victims during the
next few months. This prediction is
based, not upon clairyoyance or
soothsaying, but upon a careful study
of Wisconsin's disease reports made
since reliable figures have been
available. 1t is time for mothers to
wake up to the gravity of the sit
uatiOn.
Whooping cough is not a trivial
but a dangerous disease-particula
ly among misunderstanding more
deaths in the United States than
scarlet fever. 1t leads all other
in it's death harvest up to
the age Of five years.
Whooping cough is a contagious
and, contrary to popular be-
lief, it is most contagious in the
running nose" or catarrhal stage
before the whoop is manifest. The
disease is contracted from the drop
lets sprayed by coughing into the
faces Of other children or into the
air which they may breathe.
Whooping cough is unnecessary. 1t
may be prevented by keeping unin-
fected children away from victims of
the disease and from cases Of sus-
Dicious coughs and colds Expert !
ments now being conducted by lead |
ing physicians with a new vaccine
treatment warrant the hope Cbut
not much more than this as yeti |
hat it will give immunity or pro-
lection against catching the disease
rs we'll as assist in the cure, but |
until this has been proved beyond
Ill doubt the old "ounce of proven
ion" is recommended.
If your child has Whooping cough,
make it your business to protect
)ther children. Separate cups, glass
IS, plates and spoons should be kept
or the child sick with whooping
cough and all matter that comes
rom the mouth and nose during the
ime that the child is sick should be
eceiVed in pieces of old linen or
ags and burned Easily digested
Gods should be given. The child
hould be in the open air as much
IS possible but should not be al
owed to play with uninfected child
en-. The wearing of a distinctive
rm band as warning to other child
en- is being used with success in
ONE cities.