Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-02
RAINS AND COOLER WEATHER
MAY HALT SPREAD OF IT,
-sS
FANrlLE PARALYSIS.
MORE PREVALENT DURING
HEAT AND oRouTH
Germ. Believed to Be Carried in Dust
mo Paralysis of Any Kind Existing
Among Animals Of state-DaIIas
County Hog Cholera Campaign to re
Repeated in Every County Of State.

Special to Times-RepuLlican.
III Des Moines, Aug. with the COM
ing of cooler weather and local rains
health officials and others are hoping
that there will be a check on infantile
paralysis all over the country. While
opinions differ as to the causes of the
disease nevertheless experience has
shown that it appears to be more prev
alent when the weather is hot and dry.
1t is the belief of many physicians that
the germs are carried in the dust so
that rain sufficient to settle the dust
is always welcomed
Altho additional cases are being re-
ported to the state board of health
from day to day there is no epidemic
in the state nor in any one locality.
Physicians and health boards are re-
quiring that all cases be reported
promptly and that strict quarantine be
maintained.
Three additional cases were reported
from Mason City yesterday, WakinS
eight in all from there The second
case was reported from Fairbanks. Two
cases have been reported in Des
Au Iii al I'LL ~ -hSC vases nav
been reported to the state board Of
health up to last night. There have
been five deaths from this disease in
Iowa.
The second case reported in Des
Moines is that of a little Jewish girl
who came here with her mother to
visit relatives from Boston. They ar
rived Sunday night and Monday af-
ternoon the city health physician was
notified that the child had infant;le
paralysis.
In bulletin just received by the
board of health here put out by the
Illinois board it is stated that some
children seem to be susceptible to the
disease while others are not.
The state veterinarians say that no
paralysis of any kind is being reported
as existing among animals. They do
not believe that the paralysis with
which animals are affected is the same
as that which affects children and is
known as infantle paralysis.
Hog Cholera Reduced.
In a statement sent out today DR.. J.
A. Koen, federal inspector in charge
of the campaign against hog cholera IL,
twenty seven counties Of the state, de-
clares that hog cholera was reduced
from 25.4 per cent, Of all hogs raised
in 1912 to is per cent Of all those
raised in 1915 in the government cam
paign in Dallas county and that the
same methods which proved so sue
cessful in that one county will be fol
lowed in these twenty-eight counties
He says that the one big accomplish
ment in July was the agreement by
local veterinarians in these counties or
a uniform price for the administration
OF serum and furthermore the agree
ment Of the big serum companies to
furnish serum at as low cost as does
the state plant at Ames.
The price agreed upon by the veter-
inarians was as follows:
First, professional mileage to the
farm in answering calls to investigate
or treat sick hogs the same as for
other stock
Second. 10 cents per head for the ad-
ministration Of the serum and virus.
Third, to furnish good serum at a
cost not to exceed the price the farmer
would have to pay should he purchase
serum direct from the state plant at
Ames.