The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1915-10-21
URGENT WARNING AGAINST
DIPHTHERIA
From the State Board Of Health

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counties. that this Board feels IT to
be its duty 10 sound a note OF
warning 10 parents. teachers and
all other lovers OF children OF the
danger. which is likely 10 increase
i'm cool weather. and to again call
earnest attention to the recognized
methods of prevention which are So
safe. practical and effective, If
promptly and Systematically adopt
ed. the family. physicians, teachers
and health officials intelligently CO.
operating. that il should be con-
sidered a reproach TO whoever is
responsible il the disease is per-
mitted 10 get away from the first
case and attack others in the fam
lily or community. In order to ap-
preciate either the danger Of the
methods OF prevention proposed it
must be recognized that this is a
highly contagious and infectious di-
sease. spread directly by the seed
or germs from the throat or nose
81 some one who has il. or by per-
sons or articles infected by such
discharges. Until the foregoing
facts are not only recognized as
true. but are intelligently acted up
on. health officials and physicians
know that a high sick and death
rate from this disease must con-
tinue. With a definite desire IN do
its full part in this health and life
saving work. this Board earnestly
advises:
| 1. That when a child has sore
throat it should be placed in a room
remote from other children until a
competent physician decides that 1t
/ is not contagious. sending speci-
men 10 the Laboratory for free ex-
animation when in doubt, but. with
out waiting TO hear from this. il
there are yellow-white patches in
l the throat or other evidences OF
diphtheria. administer at once 5000
units OF antitoxin il in the first day
Of the attack. and 1000 or 10000
units il later. every 6 hours and. at
the same time use 1000 units to i'm
munize each exposed child or per-
son. The Board always keeps sup
plies OF the best fresh antitoxin on
hand which can be sent TO county
or city officials and physicians at
50 cents, 81 80, $40 and 1910 re-
spectively for 1000, 5000, 1000 and
10000 unit packages, less than one
third the retail price. TO be paid
for directly 10 the manufactures.
2. Notify the health officer at
once, as the law requires. placard
the house, and keep all other chill
dren. all having the care Of chill
drcn. and all who go where children
are away from it. Keep all chill
dren Of the house from school or
other children, unless they are i'm
n.unized with antitoxin and rigidly
excluded from the sick room. No
one but the physician and nurse
should enter the sick room, and
they should use every precaution
not 10 carry infection from it.
3. The discharges from the throat
and nose are loaded with the germs
or seeds OF the disease and should
be received on soft paper or cloths
and Immediately burned. All table
utensils should be boiled, and all
hnd and body linen should be boil
ed. or immersed for six hours in a
strong solution OF chloride OF lime.
4. This isolation OF the patient
and care Of the room. and Of every
person and thing coming out OF IT.
including pet animals, should con-
tinue until the Laboratory findings
show no germs in a second speci-
men. or for at least ten days after
all symptoms have disappeared, and
until he has had a disinfecting bath,
including the hair. and been clad
from the skin out in garments which
have not been in the sick room.
5. After recovery or death all
bedding and clothing should be boil
ed or burned. all furniture, lodges
and woodwork scrubbed with hot
soap suds, and, after ten days OF
free ventilation night and day, the
room should be re-painted and pa
pered. Fumigation is a poor sub
stitute for such thorough cleaning,
but this and free white-washing
may be used where the better way
is impracticable.
6. In the case Of death, after il is
dressed, the body should be wrap
ped in a sheet saturated in disin-
fecting solution and buried with
out public service, and, in giving