The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-09-11

only, and then only through
his column.
Banning Homes Project. | gather
this is a community movement to
make for better health. If so, 1t
is a most intelligent one.
The babies all look very little
and young and this graphically
answers the question | get all the
time, How old should a baby be
when it is time to prevent whoop-
ing cough by vaccines?" 1t shocks
some people when the answer is,
six months" They think the
baby is too young and frail to
stand it, but Nature is lying in
wait for the baby and doesn't
think six months is too young for
it to go through a facilitating
and dangerous siege of whooping
cough itself, so we can afford to
initiate Nature and also TO cir
cumvent her more malignant
moods.
First Hazard
The fact is the newborn baby
is susceptible to whooping cough
probably earlier than it is to any
other disease. The mothers blood
protects the new SturrYrom corfea-
gious disease, but doesn't seem to
confer much whooping cough I'M
munity. Up to six months the baby
doesn't catch" whooping cough
because it isn't likely to be ex-
posed, but after that it is a COM
mon occurrence.
This question Of exposure is the
one that makes the question Of all
immunization so pertinent just at
the present time Of year. Most OF
the contagious diseases we get IN
temperate climates come from con-
tact with other human beings In
tropical countries mosquitoes and
lice and bugs of different sorts
spread them, but here it is ninety
nine per cent Johnny using and
sucking the same pencil as Egbert.
The newborn baby naturally
leads a sheltered existence. So
does the child up to the age of FIVE
or six. He makes contacts from
outside his own family circle, but
relatively few. But when school
starts, he goes into a room with
all sorts of new people. coming
from all sorts of new places, and
he begins to brush up against
them in many an intimate man
ner-in fact, to put it bluntly but
so you can understand 1t, all sorts
Of germ swapping begins.
Good Preventive
Whooping cough is one Of the
most dangerous of the hazards oil
babyhood. think We can say now
that the modern whooping cough
vaccine is successful in prevent
ing the disease in large number
of cases. | was not always per-
suaded of this, so when ! recon-
mend it this recommendation has
the added value of a converted
skeptic. One pair of bacteriolo-
gists took their four children, vac
cinated two of them against
whooping cough. then after a few
months squirted whooping cough
germs in all four noses and
threats. The two vaccinated chill
dren had no reaction, the unvac-
cinated ones both came down with
whooping cough. | believe 1t is
successful in all but one and a half
per cent. And it is harmless. Re-
member that whooping cough
causes more deaths than measles,
diphtheria, infantile paralysis and
scarlet fever combined. Three vac
cinaGons, three weeks apart. are
required.
QUESTIONS AND ANSW ERS
7. D. E.: Should urine be taken
the first thing in the morning for
sugar testing or two hours after
a meal? Does a normal person
show sugar in the urine two hours
after eating sweets?
Answer: Urine passed the first
thing in the morning is often free
of sugar even if the person has
diabetes, so urine taken two hours
after a meal gives truer idea Of
the situation. Best of all is sam
pie from a complete l4-hour spe-
cimen. Normal persons do not
show sugar after eating sweets.
slack that Is certain to occur du