Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-09-01
A Few Words to You From
Your Health Department
By DIR. M. De Colbert


am appearing before the Wabeno
public with this }etter, the spirit of
which to reach the understanding and
the hearts of the people with whom l
identify myself.
The Health conditions of the COM
munity affect ALL Preparedness" is
the cry of fhe present time, of the
epoch in which we live and which we
ourselves build or compose.
Will it pot be too late to take active
steps to remedy existing local unhy-
CHEMICAL conditions when death has in
vaded our homes or sickness has made
invalids and cripples. In many instan-
ces this will be but an added burden
on society. Let us be prepared too.
like the others are in our neighbor-
hood, some of whom are feverishly do
ing everything in order to diminish
the infectious diseases generally, and
infantile paralysis especially.
They did not care for years about
the hygienical conditions o their
places, and only when disease resulted
they found money, energy, time and
everything to arrest disease = Oconto
Falls is an example of this kind of
situation. Shall we wait till disease
will reach us too? Shall we wait till
some mother will cry by the body of
the lost child? And whose child will
that be? 1t may be yours.
Think about that and after consider
ing the glief, the terror, the loss of
life, or material loss, read my words
with exceptional attention and help
this, Your Health Department, in its
work of protecting Your health, Your
life and Your pc cket. Help! This is the
cry which l, fully sighted, send to
those ignorant about the severity of
the Natural punishment resulting from
neglect of hygienic conditions. Come
and ask me if you desire information,
| am always at your full service in the
case of preserving your health or poss-
IDLE protection from death. No special
charges for this. Free counsel at any
time you meet me on the street or in
my Office.
Infantile Spinal Paralysis, or polio
myelitis anterior acuta, or myelitis of
the anterior horns--is rapidly infla-
nation of the anterior horns of the
gray matter of the spinal cord, occur
ing suddenly in children, and occas-
ionallY in adults--acute spinal paraly-
sis of adults--it is characterized by
mild fever, muscular tremors and
twitching and paralysis of groups of
muscles, followed by more or less
atrophy. The facts show that it is a
disease of early life, from the second
month to the fourth or fifth year, and
it may rarely be observed in adults. 1t
occasionally appears in epidemic form.
The real cause of it is not fully
understood, thereby rendering the dis
ease more dangerous, though all the
evidence shows that it is a certain
kind of germ which penetrates into the
system and breed in the discharges
openly kept and exposed, or in garbage
or dirt in rooms or around the kouss.
The exposure to cold, and damp, in
iuries and all infectious diseases and
fevers may act as predisposing causes.
The wars of infection are numerous
and usually escape from observation
of not specially prepared one, so it
escapes the first moment of attack and
usually when brought before the ply
sician for examination, the patient is
already paralized.
While enjoying sometimes perfect
health the child is attacked by either
high or moderate fever, headache,
sometimes also vomiting and twitch-
ings and even convulsions. This per-
sists for few days and finally sub
sides, leaving a paralitic condition
varying in degree and extention.
Ito be continued)