MEASLES A DEADLY DISEASE
OLD TRADITIONS WHICH HAMPER DOCTORS.
“It is important to realise that measles kills more people than scarlet lover, diphtheria, and typhoid fever put together. \ It is a dangerous disease, not a mild, trivial one,” states the weekly bulletin of the Central Council for Health Education, which is issued by arrangements with the English Ministry of Health and the General Medical Council.
•■Apart from deaths, there is a great deal of damage to the child, from an attack of measles, it is stated. All sorts of weaknesses may be left, and lead to tuberculosis, lung troubles, kidney disease, and other disabilities. The stupid practice when measles breaks out in a family of deliberately allowing the case and the other children to be toegther, bn the pica that it is as well for all of them to have it at the same time, cannot be too strongly condemned. The later in childhood w'C can postpone the attack the less dangerous it is likely to be When an outbreak occurs there is absolute need for fresh air and ventilation, the cases require daily washing (the idea that you “drive the rash in” if you wash a measles case lingers on), and there is need for care of the eyes, cars, mouth, and throat.
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Shannon News, 23 July 1929, Page 1
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214MEASLES A DEADLY DISEASE Shannon News, 23 July 1929, Page 1
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