The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-24
THE CRI COMPLETE IN
 TWENTY FOUR VARIETIES.

You never know nor does your doctor what your putatiye "cold' is going to be tomorrow. Just run your furtive eye over the follow ing list of respiratory infections or definite illnesses which com monly begin with symptoms quite like the symptoms of ordinary coryza: Acute coryza (distemper, head "cold." acute catarrh, acute rhini-
 Acute pharyngihs (sore throat),
 Follicular tonsilitis
 Acute Peritonsilitis (quinsy)
 vincent's angina ttrench mouth) : Diphtheria
 Acute sinusitis
 Scarlet fever Cor scarletina)
 Measles (rubeola, morbillD
 Acute laryngitis (hoarseness, loss of voice)
 Pleurisy
 Acute bronchitis (chest "'co!d")
 Pneumonia (lYph fever)
 Influenza (grip) (fiuD
 Lethargic encephlitis fAmeri- can sleeping sickness'o
 Acute anterior poliomyelitis (in- fantile paralysis)
 Acute epidemic cerebfo-spinal meningitis (spotted fever. brain fever)
 Group
 Pertusis (whooping cough)
 German measles (rothein)
 Chicken pox (varicella)
 Smallpox (variola)
 Pneuinonic plague
 Tuberculosis Consumption. ph, thisis)
 These are all. recognized at present as respiratory infections. the germ or virus of the disease entering the body through the lining of nose or throat, and the infection spreading from one per- son to another in the secretions from nose and throat. In some of the illnesses named there is usually no marked eoryza at onset--say in smallpox, the even chickenpox and smallpox are known to be respir- atory infections and to spread just as does diphtheria or tuberculosis or ordinary coryza, and not from the skin rash, as rule.
 From the list of possibilities in the putative ''cold" you may judge for yourself how great a risk you take when you chat with care- less person who purports to have a slight "co1d." On the other hand if you're fair you may judge how great a menace you are to your friends, family or associates of the innocent persons near you If yo.l insist on keeping about as usual when you have the cri. You don't know, nor does any one else, what the putative "cold" will prove to be. And unfortunately in most oi the respiratory infections listed the period when the disease is most virulent. most likely to spread is the stage of invasion--the very time when the average scoundrel or drmn fool is trying to "breaA it up" with some riostrum or other or trying to flight 1t 0ff' and keep. ing up and about, SO that every one who happens to come within range has an excellent chance tc contract the illness. whatever :, may be.
 Measles, for example, is most likely to spread among children ir school or elsewhere , in close con. tact in the three or four days )t the stage of Invasion, before any rash appears, when the child ha, only the symptoms of a "feverist cold" This is one, and a sufficient reason why no child with a puta- tive "cold" should ever be allowed to remain in school. The same rule applies. of course, to teachers though teachers are pretty ignor. ant or selfish about this practice d lkhe golden rule of hygiene. Theil Ignorance of selfishness is en cotiraged by the inefficient ol vacilliating policy of the health au. thoritiss who d6terrnine the poll cies of the schools. When vol have an old. fogy in charge, or [ seeming politician, you can't ex pect much consideration for thu health of school children.