The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1916-02-17
THE BOARD OF HEALTH
MAKES NEW RULING

No new cases Of scarlet fever have
been reported to the city physician or
the city board Of health and it is
thought the quarantine will soon be
raised allowing the Sunday schools to
be resumed, and perhaps the children
will soon be permitted to take in the
picture shows.
The report Of the case breaking cut
in the school house last Monday was
only a farce. The child ovcr-eat at
dinner and played too hard on the
play grounds which caused him to
show symptoms of scai e, fever. The
teachers took no chances and there.
fore, the youngSter was allowed to
remain at home until the family phys
ician said there was nothing the mat.
ter.
The following warning has been is
sued To the physicians and parents
in order TO keep the city free from an
epidemic which might necesstate the
closing OF the schools.
IL has been ruled that chicken pox,
measles and whooping cough are re-
poh eobAN NlssN NlNss ht
parent as well as the physicians are
legally responsible under the law for
the report Of these diseases to the
proper health authorities.
a minimum period of modified
quarantine, whereby the patient shall
be isolated, and the parent permitted
TO attend TO his usual duties after
reasonable precautions, has been es-
tablished.
Chicken pox must be quarantined
until all signs of the eruption have
left the body, from one TO two weeks.
Measles will be quarantined a per-
iod not less than two weeks.
Whooping cough will he under mod
flied quarantine during the disease un-
I'll all characteristic symptoms have
abated and disappeared.
II is the duty Of all parents TO con
fine such patients TO the house to pro-
tect other children until IA physician
has seen the case and made the dag
nosis. IL is in the early discovery Of
such diseases that an epidemic Is pre-
vented or controlled and lives saved.
Any epidemic may be controlled by the
wise cooperation Of the general pub
lie.
symptoms Of Measles
The early symptoms Of measles are
watery eyes, sneezing. nasal discharge
bad breath and tendency to sore
throat, with fever. The rash ap-
pears about the fourth day usually
upon the back Of the neck. and fore
head in the shape Of small dark red
spots. Upon the appearance Of any
OF these symptoms the patient should
be isolated Immediately.
The duration of infection is from
two to four weeks.
While this has been considered one
Of the milder of contagious diseases,
the fact IL that neither scarlet fever
nor diphtheria cause as high death
rate as measles in children from two
to five years OF age.
Whooping Cough
Whooping cough is highly conta-
gious disease beginning with catar-
rhal symptoms and developing within
two weeks to the stage of the par.
oxysmal cough. The disease may last
for an indefinite time. The disease
is peculiarly fatal in young infants
due to the supervention of broncho
pneumonia and diarrheal conditions.
| Chicken PON
While chicken pox is mild dis
ease their is danger of the case being
mistaken for small po< which often
accompanies in an eI idemic. Ery-
sipelas may result from scratching
the scabs. The main difference be-
tween chicken pox and smallpox is
that chicken pox forms the eruption
in successive crops and the scabs fall
i off earlier.