American Professor’s List Of Precautions Against Spread

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 3, 2 December 1947, Page 4

American Professor’s List Of Precautions Against Spread

Precautions against the spread of infantile paralysis disease have been tabulated by Professor John R. Paul, professor of preventive medicine at Yale University School of Medicine, as follows:—■ (1) Avoid overtiring and extreme fatigue from strenuous exercises. (2) Avoid sudden chilling, such as would come from a plunge into extremely cold water on a very hot day. (3) Pay careful attention to personal cleanliness, such as thorough hand-washing before eating. (4) If possible avoid operations on tonsils and adenoids during an epidemic. Careful .study has shown that such operations during an epidemic tend to increase the danger of contracting infantile paralysis in its most serious form. (5) Use the purest milk and water available. Keep flies away from food. While the exact means of spreading the disease •is not known, contaminated water and milk are always danger- . ous and flies have repeatedly been shown to carry the infantile paralysis virus. ’(6) Do not swim in polluted water. (7) Maintain community sanitation at a high level at all times. (8) Avoid all unnecessary contact with persons with an illness suggestive of infantile paralysis.