Connecticut western news., 1921-04-07
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth .
 Pound of Cure
The street car was crowded.

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 It started jerkily, and tho young chap who had just squeezed himself in nearly sat down on a frail little woman holding a baby. As she moved over to give him room beside her she smiled back at his hastv apol- ogies. He was the sort you would smile at, big, clear-eyed, and alive, and he carried the little black bag that stamps n man as a doctor and gives him open sesame to our hearts.
 The baby stirred restlessly at being disturbed, and began to cough. At the well-known "whoop" several people turned and looked. A few were sympathetic, others impatient, as the mother nervously tried to quiet the paroxysm. + ~-
 The young doctor looked interest ed as he leaned over to rescue the woman's purse from off the floor. "Has he been coughing long?" he asked with disarming smile.
 Mo-" the mother replied, shifting the baby to the other arm so that she could talk better. But the other children have had it, and you get pretty tired, up nights so. There's five years difference between this baby and the next oldest. The older children didn't seem to mind it so much"
 "No", agreed the doctor. "They stand 1t better after they are five. It's the little fellows that get hit the hardest. Have you had a doctor?"
 "Oh, no, nobody in our neighbor- hood did, and nearly all the children are having it. The baby next door died. My mother used to say that children had to have whooping cough and measles, and the sooner they had them the better"
 There was a pause, and the young doctor looked out of the window with unseeing eyes. He was thinking of the endless procession of children down through all the years who had sacrificed their lives having measles and whooping cough "the sooner the better"
 He turned suddenly to the woman beside him. "Listen," he said, "I'm getting off up here at the hospital, but want to tell you something. And I want you to go back to your neighborhood and tell all the moth CTS and fathers there. It's impor- tant. Tell them that we have been all wrong in thinking that measles and whooping cough went with child hood, that the children who had them early were lucky, and that they were practically harmless. We have got to get straight on this, for the sake of the coming children.
 "Think of it, in 1917, fifteen thou sand children died of measles--ifteen thousand little kids who relied on their fathers and mothers to protect them! And that doesn't count all the pneumonia deaths thay were due to measles.
 "You wouldn't expose your chil- dren to smallpox--an yet measles kills more people every year than smallpox. It isn't so much the measles alone as it is the pneumonia that so often goes with it, and the eye trouble, and deafness. and the ten dency to tuberculosis. We wouldn't any of us knowingly take risk on sending our children handicapped through life, and yet we do just that when we carelessly expose them to measles.
 Remember, never take chance when a youngster has what seems to be cold, with red eyes, snuffiing, a cough, and drowsiness. He may have measles, and if he has he can give 1t to the other kids even in that early stage. Put him to bed in room by himself, and don't wait for the rash to appear. It it's only cold, he will get over it all the quicker, and if it is measles you are taking it in time.
 Whooping cough may mean pneu- monia, too, and tuberculosis, aid weakened systems. It's incredible that people still take lightly disease that kills Il ,000 children every year! Look after a suspicious cold, or a persistent cough, and be especially careful of the babies under one year, it kills them the quickest. Protect your children from exposure as much as you can, and if it's your child that has it, remember that your neighbors are fond of their children 1 too. Good medical care caA shorten an attack, and guard against com plications. But better yet-preveni ! itw
 The car was slowing down for the hospital corner, and the young doctor hastily picked up his bag. So intent had he been on his subject that he hadn't noticed the lowered news papers and the turned heads.
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