Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-09-11
NOW IS THE TIME TO BE CAUTIOUS.

With the opening of the school approximately $500 chill
ren are assembled every day the various school houses OF hs
Zoo children brought into close personal indoors who
during the summer have been practically living out OF doors ana as
semblne only occasionally and then small numbers AS might be
expced it time for the spreading OF contagious diseases
and from unless proper precautions are taNe an increase %
those maad may be expected Ottawa has been very fortunate OF
having but few cases OF contagious diseases ana oSe e
been kept isolated so that there has been nothing approaching IN cpl
enc of any kind But the west side three
wedened cases scarlet fever Where the germs came from
or who was the known and there is no indication that
the number of will increase but the time to take every
precaltion. =,
Dr. Evans of the Chicago Tribune a contribution calls
attention he calls the Sherwood pan which contains Whoe
lot of common sense this subject Sherwood is Wisconsin VII
age SO small that they doctor and with revenues so small
that they paid health department But they have rich pub
lie sentiment intelligence and that's the counterpart OF being big
and rich They have public and paroca school In the absence
OF proper health office they about for some method OF keep
ing their schools being crippled by every now and
then They called mass meeting and told the people all about con
agou and how they spread and then got them TO
agree 10 abide BY plan evolved which included three basic precau
h6nary measures These were: 'i Ax.s
l. Isolating first and diagnosing afterwards
~ q Pacarding suspicion - n. ,,,.. +.
s. Substituting education for police power ,..s
@ Do YOU get e first propositions? II those two rules were
generally observed health officer would have much easier time
Almost any city health officer will tell YOU that OF his hardest
Jobs Is to Keep ispcio its FIRST stages isolated
III he contagois disease sign actually nailed up 1t is not
common suspected to find number of people when he
arrives decision to find people (neudng children on hand to
learn the verdict -
In Sherwood the children were looked each mQrppg
by each teacher they entered the school Every child with
cold cough that suggested
Suspicion was home If the teacher suspected contagious dis
ease let say measles sign up the home 1t read
Measles suspected All the rules for the quarantine of measles
carried Whenever OF conagion appeared
household school authorities notified The of the situa
holding the child home under observation during the pc
Rod of development of disease rather than the schooroom
result of common colds forms OF ontagon
and when considered that OF the first symptoms OF most
contagious diseases very like common cold or sore throat
that was probably of the best of the precautions.
One lesson people have to learn that there no dis
grace in isolation and that person who rather than undergo lit
tie discomfort of quarantine for the sake of desr
able citizen any community If Ottawa keep low of
contagious diseases the time to do the precautionary work
after epdemics start.