Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-04-27

On March Is g telegram from Gales
Vile. Wis.,. stated that their epidemic
Of septic sore throat vas under con.
troll. In their population Of 1900 there
had been 237 cases Of septic sore throat
and Of these II had died. Nearly 1 per
cent of the entire population had died
from. and practically 20 per cent of the
entire population had been sick OF, a
single preventable disease. Translated
into terms of Chicago, this would mean
$40, 600 cases OF, INC 10000 deaths from,
a ~preventable disease, all occurring in
q few weeks.
Ihe disease was spread by milk. The
milk is commonly infected from either
OF two sources-persons with septic
sore throat or cows with garget. spoiled
quarters. or mastitis.
The remedy is to p~asteurize the milk
and to quarantine the affected COWS or
persons, as the case may be.
Septic sore throat commonly starts.
with a violent sore throat, fever, and
general aching. The temperature goes
10 10Y and 100, and the pulse is rapid.
The throat is red, swollen, and white
points are noted on the tonsils. A Gull
ture from the throat does not show
dlphtheria bacilli, but does show strep-
%tococci. Soon, in some cases, there fol-
lows an eruption, which may be sim
ilar to that of scarlet fever. The glands:
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pharynX may be, and usually is, greater
than that of diphtheria.
The first tendency is to call the cases
d%iphtheria. The temperature is too
hlgh Tor that disease and there are no
diphtheria bacilli in the cultures. AS
the case progresses it's resemblance to
dlphtheria disappears. AS it goes on
The resemblance to scarlet fever comes
10 the front in those cases in which
tnere Is eruption. In many of the cases
pus forms either in the th~roat--quinsy
Or II the neck-suppurating glands.
The pains in the joints are apt to
become so prominent hat the LIKENESS
10 scarlet fever passes out OF mind and
is suspected. Then the
olsease appears to center on the alb.
dominal organs. Some cases in this
stage are thought to be appendicitis,
PROBABLY by this time the physician.
taking all the above symptoms into
consideration and noting the exhaus-
ton, out OF all proportion to the sever
ny OF the illness or it's duration, comes
TO the conclusion that he has to deal
WIN a case OF septic sore throat.
ne mas the milk supply examined and
!lnds that 1t contains streptococci. He
ooks over the dairy and finds a cow
win a sore udder. He. has her milk
and finds streptococci in that.
he orders the COW taken from the dairy
herd.
AS soon as he suspected the diagnosis
OF septic sore throat, il he was an alert
member of his profession he consulted
with his health department, and il his
health department was alert they or
dered all milk pa~steurized. Or, per-
maps. about the timethe physician sus-
pected septic sore throat to be the ma
ture OF he trouble he began to hear
OF other cases of sore throat in the
neishborhood. Upon Investigation he
found that the first case worked as a
capper IN a milk bottling plant. He
Keeling al right. though his throat was
sun a little sore. had gone back to
Sometimes it is difficult to distin-
guish between septic sore throat and
ordinary sore throat.
Septic sore throat is not contagious
IN the sense that measles is.