The Robesonian., 1917-12-06
WHAT MOTHERS CAN DO
Mothers Are Asked to Cooperate
With Quarantine Officer to Con-
troll Contagious Diseases.

Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Nobody knows what it means to
have sick child like the mother,
therefore | am asking the mothers of
this county, especially, to cooperate
with me, their county quarantine CT
ficer, and by all working together, to
keep down those preventable diseases
like whooping cough, measles, scar
let fever and diphtheria, as far as is
possible.
Some old-fashioned mothers used to
believe that whooping cough and
| measles were like taxes, just had to
come, and the sooner they "came and
| went, the better. But now mothers
know different. They know that even
| if children should have these diseases
| when they grow up, it goes less hard
with them then, and they are more
| likely to recover without defects ard
impafrments. Why, when a mothers
baby has measles, if it is less than
| five years old she never knows wheth-
er it is going to be left blind, deaf,
lame or with weakened heart or kid
neys, for life. The safest plan is to
take no chances with any Of these
so-called children's diseases. Chill
dren don't have to have them, and why
NOT project them -
Some of The things mothers can do
to keep down, whooping cough, scarlet
fever, infanti1e paralysis and diphthe-
ria in their homes and communities
are: first, to suspect the disease and
keep home the children having the
first symptoms, such as sore throats
or head colds, particularly if any con-
tagious diseases are in the commun-
ity. Second, in case no physician is
called to attend the child, the mother
should see that the disease is report
ed at once to the county quarantine
officer, who will then tell her what
to do and how to treat the case. The
law requires her to do this. Third
: every mother should respect the quar-.
antine law. It may inconvenience hel
slightly, but what will few days Of
: inconvenience mean if it saves {
child's life or even if it saves him
: from lifelong defect, like blindness
which is often one of the after-effect:
of measles? The, mother who disre
! CARDS the Quarantine law is not onl!
r an undesirable citizen to have in tn
community but is an enemy Of littl
children. is-
The number Of cases of contagiou
diseases in this county last month re
pOA COO w t1lOE WO1O.
Diphtheria.-George Lee, Elrod, R
l; J. D. Taylor, Red Springs; Viii
Smith, Raynham, w. l.. Austin, Ell
rod, H. D. Rowland, Elrod, F. R. D.
! William Locklear, Buie, R. 1; Agrip
u pc Mercer, .Lumberton, R. F. D.; Way
;, e mon Bullock, Wakulla; S. L. Parker
i Lumberton, RI; Frank FFaulk, Lumber
= ton; Rev. Powell, Rowland; Albert John
= son, Parkton; ;Hanes Ivey, Marietta; D1
w. "A. McPhaul, Lumberton.
: Typhoid : fever.-Berry Mcneil
= Lumberton, R. 6; Kate C. Chavis, El
y ! rod, R. 1; Arthur Macks, Red Spring:
u R. 2; L. F. Lewis, Jennings Cotto
Mill, Lumberton; Lonnie Bullard, ,Lun
berton.
Scarlet fever-J. H. Brock, Re
r Springs, R. 4; Ada Grimsley, Marie1
ia.
= Whooping cough.-W. A. Finc]
i Lumberton; Stenson Humphrey, S
- Pauls, R. 1; Henry Pope, Lumberto1
=, End street; Junus Stephens, Lunabe
~ ~ ton, R. 7.
i Apthalure neoature.-L. A. CAM
- bell, Lumberton.
IL W. A. McPHAUL,
County Quarantine Office