This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...the public and the explanation of the fact that in 1910 there were 24,000 inexcusable cases of smallpox in the United States. Individuals cannot stop transmissible diseases. They must work with other individuals through efficient local and state departments of health which see the importance of the following ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...the public and the explanation of the fact that in 1910 there were 24,000 inexcusable cases of smallpox in the United States. Individuals cannot stop transmissible diseases. They must work with other individuals through efficient local and state departments of health which see the importance of the following steps: 1. Notification of danger when it is first recognized 2. Registration at a central office of facts as to each dangerous thing or person 8. Examination of the seat of danger to discover its extent, its cost and new seats of danger created by it 4. Isolation of the dangerous thing or person 5. Constant attention to prevent extension to other persons or things 6. Destruction or removal of disease germs or other causes of danger 7. Analysis and record, for future use, of lessons learned by experience 8. Education of the public to understand its relation to danger checked or removed, its responsibility for preventing a recurrence of the same danger, and the importance of promptly recognizing and checking similar danger elsewhere You can tell which of these steps are not being taken properly by your department of health. Quite generally now we have come to recognize that when children get scarlet fever or diphtheria or measles they should stay away from school. Quite as generally, however, we are still careless of children who are excluded from school because of transmissiSTOP WHOOPING COUGH 185 ble diseases and permit them to mingle with other children on the street and in homes. Recently a child came down with whooping cough in Southampton, Long Island. To protect his brothers and sisters this little boy was sent to his grandparents at Amagansett. As a consequence over forty children in Amagansett indulged themselves in whooping cough...
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