Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-12-20


be decorated for bravery. The old
regime has passed away and the new
has taken its place. There is no bet
ter time than the beginning of the
school year to bring parents to a real
ization of the seriousness of allowing
the transmission of disease from one
child to another. This is the new
regime and is known as the Shore
wood Plan. Copies of the Shorewood
plan may be had upon application to
this office or to the State Board of
Health. Madison.
l Isolating first. and diagnosing
afterwards.
2 Placarding on suspicion: and
| 8 Substituting in large part educa-
tional propaganda for the exercising
of police powers.
I No child is to be permitted to re-
main in school with symptoms of
ANY COMMUNICABLE DISEASE.
Consideration for the child should
prompt such course.
An excluded child is to be readmit-
I ted only after it has been definitely
determined by competent medical au-
/ thority that its illness is not eommun-
icable.
The public interests first.
The individuals second.
Extracts from Shorewood's Exper-
fence in the Control of Communicable
| Diseases will be printed later.)
Teachers who have familiarized
/ themselves with Rule II of the State
Board of Health know that children
afflicted with any kind of commune
cable skin disease is to be excluded
from school until cured. An except
ion has been made by our Deputy
State Health Officer, DIR. Henika. A
slip for use in the school room out
lines for Vernon county reads:
To the Parents or Guardians of.
This child appears to be afflicted
with communicable skin disease.
For the protection of all the children
in the school you are asked to keep the
child at home until he or she is cured.
This is the exception) IF THE
PARTS AFFECTED CAN BE COW
Erred WITH OINTMENT AND PRO-
PERLY BANDAGED to prevent the
spread of the contagion the child will
be permitted to return to school.
This is in conformity with our in
structions from the State Board of
Health
This notice may be signed by the
teacher or nurse.
Teachers may send for these slips
to the County Nurses Office, or make
their own slips by copying the above
notice.
Impetigo, or Catching Sores,
Scabies or "The Itch" and "Cow-Pox5
are all aggravating enemies of school
children and no longer are to have
place in the schoolroom
Itch treatments and descriptions
have been given before in the School
Paper and the County Papers, but is
again given:
The Itch is a contagious skin dis
ease found usually between the fingers
and the palm of the hand spreading
to all parts of the body, caused by
parasite, the itch mite. The mite bur-
rows through the skin head first, de-
posits eggs, and then burrows in other
directions, thus spreading the dis
ease.
According to the State Board of
Health rules all children having this
disease, must remain at home, and
not return to school until the eruption
has disappeared.
Upon observing the FIRST sore or
burrow, apply tincture of iodine to it.
This will help to check the spread of
the disease. This is done in the FIRST
stage only, as it is not satisfying to
apply the iodine over large areas.
TREATMENT-From Communica-
bic Diseases of Children.
l Scrub affected parts thoroughly
with hot water and soap. This is done
to remove crusts or scabs).
2 Apply sulphur ointment, or oint-
ment prescribed by your doctor, to
affected parts for THREE days in
succession.
3 Always wash affected parts be-
fore reapplying ointment.
4 All bed and body linen must be
boiled for one half hour each morning.
Use sheets to sleep in, when treating
the itch. This daily change and boil
ing of bed and body linen is neces-
sary to destroy the itch mites in them.
5 Child should sleep ALONE.
6 Quite contagious to other MEM
bers in the family. A sulphur ONT
ment may be made by using tea
spoonfuls Of sulphur to tablespoon
fuls of vaseline.-U. S. Public Health
Bulletin, No. II.
To prevent the spread Of commune
cable skin diseases:
Exclude promptly. Use Dr.. Hem
ika's exclusion slip.
2 Disinfect school room. This does
not mean formaldehyde fumigation.l
Distinction means house cleaning.
3 Back up" the principle of school
exclusion.
Soaps in bars are source of In
lection. Liquid soap in some kind of
container must be used. Liquid soap
must be poured on the hands. The
hands must not be dipped in IT'D IL
you have no regular container use e
bottle.
5 Cloth towels are absolutely "Ta-
boo"
6 Have individual drinking cups.
z Tell children to steriiize small
cuts, etc. with iodine. Keep cuts clean
by proper care. ALWAYS KEEP
ALL SORES bandaged.
Who stands back Of the teacher and
the school board in a school exclusion /?
The County Superintendent, the Coun-
ty Health Committee, the Deputy
State Health Officer, and the County
Nurse. Why? Because the teacher
is obeying the law.
The teacher who backs up" the
school exclusion, and who finds room
for health work in her school is the
teacher who also performs her regular
school work in an efficient manner.
Someone has said, while we are ex-
eeuting one piece of work we are pre-
pairing ourselves for another
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