Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-07-22
HEALTH OFFICERS At SCHOOL
Diagnosis and Control of Dis.
ease Topic of Symposium.
scarlet Fever. Mumps. ChickenpOx.
Measles. Wbooping Cough and Tub
ercuiosis among the Subjects
Considered Friday.

Friday was q very busy day for the
health officers who came to this city to
attend the annual school of instruction.
and never before have these officials
turned out in larger numbers to stay
through the sessions than during the
one of 1915
SCARLET FEVER
The morning session was opened by
the reading of a paper by DR.. +. D.
Falhy of Huntington, treating with the
diagnosis and control of scarlet fever.
lie said in part:
I wish to mention some recent add-
lions to our knowledge of some Of the
acute infections. notably scarlatina. In
| 1911 Bcwhardt produced scarlet fever in
monkeys by using as a source of infec-
ton scra pings from the tongues of scar |
let fever patients. also Transmitting IL !
from monkey to monkey, hut denied the !
lspecifc relation of the streptococcus and |
claimed that the infectve agency of scar
let fever should be cassed among the
hlterahle Wruses In Vermont scar
latina ranks low i'm our morbihity and
mortality reports. It is communicated by
direct contact of the healthy with the
infected and by Instrumentation Of va
rous substances, to which the infective
material adheres. The susceptibility to
scarlatina Is very variable the shortest
time being given as one day and from
that TO 10 or Il days The disease may
! be carried on or about the persons of
the healthy to others at a great dis
lance. or it may he carried in foods or
! drinks as evidenced by epdcmics fol-
! lowing in the wake Of a milk distributor.
: 1t is children's disease, but Is also
. found in older people. I confidently ex-
press the hope that the time may not
$ he far distant when isolation Of the
specific organisms may clear mp much
r Of the disease. A person having a rash
reasonably supposed to be scarlatina
) should be at once entirely isolated from
the other members Of the family, and
: other children in the family he required
Z to remain on the promises until the at
I tending physician becomes satisfied that
n the disease is not scaratina. The health
= officer should at once he notified so that
5 proper quarantine may he effective in
p suppressng the spread of the disease.
MEASLES AND WHOOPlNG COUGH
! A brief abstract of the paper read
y. by Or. q. 3. Hulburd of Jericho on
n measles and whooping cough follows;
-. The ability to diagnose and detect
whooping cough and measles Is not con-
,r fined wholly to the medical profession. as
= the intelligent layman is often able 10
IA discover their presence. With these tive
\, diseases there is no remedy that may he
called specific. The physician does not
Ia attempt to cure; he can only treat symp-
l. toms and watch the sef-limited disease
A as il runs its course. The bottom fact
l. ito he considered by the profession anc
\. society in general Is what is the hes
a method of preventing epidemics Of these
highly contagious diseases. Every ply
stefan understands what serious tran
Of Ills follows In their wakes The pub
lic must be made TO understand through
paper. pamphlet. pulpit and schoolroon
what the physician knows; that is, tina
II mea sizes and whooping cough in thei
completed work are more deadly thal
smallpox and ill more graves than diph
iberia Dsabuse the public mind OF IN
idea that 1t is necessary for every chill
On to have these two diseases. The quaran
MI tine and restriction of these disease
'st should be thoroughly cared for anc
n above all, let there be a system organ
It lied and enforced which will inform tn
d. health officers of tho presence OF thes
IS diseases at the earliest possible moment
ed Their control lies along the line OF nopu
on lar education and the spread OF inl"rn''
ee ton as well as with the conso'eh'i"u
81 work of health oftlcers'
at M1rMPS AND CHICKENrON.
nv II v Steele .Jr.. of Waterbur
~, read paper on the diagnosis ana cohr'
no ~ r,umrs and chickenpox A brief al
IN s.rac, ,o,,ows.
ir' D,aanos,s =, m,mns is quite simple
,on e., IN, absence Of an endemic. W
u" have tho characteristic swelling appear
va ing on both sides or the race WIN Pa'
- preceding, which is increased by hcld
10 such as vinegar or pickles, placed In tf
~ mouth Numps are characterized by tr
,ry rapidly with Wil'h ,"e s"V''".
-, and hy it's relatively short duraNo
NO. Reasons for control Of mumps whic
w, seem so trivial are that In some cast
;" facial paralysis. deafness and kidney II
oe eowmation follow. Mumps are conta
49,, ltous from the individual so aH"cted tfo
the ~. hog,rning of the symptoms. The
on na,,, w. oarlv recognized and isolated,
al 49,, 5,o,roeis of chickenpox presen
au- sits,cu,t,es c.reciallv during II
II =. , mild TYNE of smailpo
nee u. !, T., = trivia, affair. but VIII,
10 v,,,l,c,t;ors ara encounter
Sc t'' ,,h, casa about viii,
"NN ,hora ;s any doubt should he Isolated al
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