Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-07-12
BOARD OF HEALTH
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city.
The state board of health has sent
out an order to the heads of the health
departments in the various Oregon cit
les. This order may be changed as a
result of the meeting in Portland Sat
urday but, unless the scourge shows
signs of abating in the east, believes
DR.. w. b. Morse, president of the state
board of health, the regulations will
not be modified.
| Health Officer Miles has received
| the following Instructions:
1.-The state board of health has or
dered that quarantine quarters be es-
| tablished at every railroad depot in
which incoming eastern passengers
NAV arrive.
2-The city and county health Off
GERS are ordered by the board to in
spect all incoming passengers under
fifteen years of age.
3-To keep a record of the children 5
names, date and point Of departure and
destination, all points of stop over and
length of time of stop overs.
ito keep record OF tempera-
ture of each child under fifteen years
of age.
5-Anv child showing rise of tenn
perature or symptoms indicative of in
fantile paralysis to be Immediately
quarantined in the local quarantine
quarters provided for that purpose.
ITO keep suspected children in
quarantine until the temperature drops
to normal and there IS no Evidence of
infection with the virus of infantile
paralysis.
ITO quarantine for thirty days
if necessary to establish absolutely
that the child is not infected.
S-Tne finding of any infections of
infantile paralysis to be Immediately
telegraphed or telephoned to the state
board of health.
1t is felt by the authorities that the
danger of cases of the disease arising
in this locality is slight; the chief
source of danger is that it will be in
troduced here by outsiders. The mat.
| ter is most serious to the community
and TO the children themselves No
disease peculiar to adolescence is more
serious in its results.
! While the mortality is not higher
than in some of the other diseases it
leaves the victim a cripple for life in
many cases. In the primary stage
fever is always present and this is pl
easily recognized symptom. Some
times there is pain, although this does
not commonly attend the development
of the ease.
The victim may lose the use of one
arm, one leg or bOtn arms and legs.
Sometimes the right arm and left leg
are affected or vice versa. Not infre-
quently only a portion of member is
affected. The disease reaches its
height in from two TO : days and from
this moment improvement, such as it
is, begins.
After the so called Improvement
starts, the muscles waste and the
Joints relax. Case is necessary in pro-
viding plenty of nutritious food in this
stage. Cases are on record of almost
complete recovery but the rule is that
the disease leaves its victim in fearA
full state, cripple for the remainder
of his days and an object of pity.
For this reason the city authorities
appeal to all parents who discover
symptoms of the malady in their chill
dren to communicate with their family
physician or the health department at
once in order that the trouble may be
fought in its early stages.
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and the health department these insti-
tutions today put into effect a new
campaign of precautionary measures.
These include new sanitary regula-
tions and a report of any sickness in
any theatre.
Ruth Hochfelde,r four years old, who
arrives this afternoon from the epi-
demic area in New York, will be taken
from the train at Oakland, and hurried
to the county hospital to undergo two