DISEASES OF CHILDREN.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43093, 16 May 1907, Page 4

DISEASES OF CHILDREN.

-- Dr Mason., Chief Health, Officer, gaire lw 'interesting lecture in Wellington fh® other evening on ‘The Diseases of Children.’ In >•«* course or his rmarks he exploded the old hogey that there were some diseases which all children, must get sooner or later. He pointed out that scarlet fewer was most fatal t,o children under the age of ten years. Every year in which a child could -be safeguarded from the disease lessened the .danger of contagion and. diminished the severity of attack by a hundred per cent The game supplied to measles and whoop- " ing cough, and to diphtheria, which was most prevalent and severe in children under five years of age. A throat in a child was a warning of danger. When a cth.il d had ai sorethroat, was a little feverish, and Bhowed a slight rash', it was a fit subject for at doctor to see. If scarlet fever developed and ran its. course without medical aid, parents mi<?ht be tempted to congratulate themselves on having saved ai doctor’s fee, but infection from a mild case often veloped, in other members of the family, into* very serious forms.