To the Parents and
Teachers in Transylvania County
By W.J. Wallis, County
Health Officer
The Flu
Remembering the ordeal we experienced in many ways with the
world-wide epidemic of influenza last fall and winter I would ask you to
exercise constant vigilance in order to avert as far as in us lies a return to
similar conditions. I do not think it necessary to go into details as to the
symptoms of influenza; it was so wide-spread and its manifestations so
pronounced. I would suggest that all
persons take special care of themselves in every particular and if any
suspicions of influenza exist, call a physician.
Scarlet Fever
Quarantine
I would call attention also to the fact that I have
quarantined three homes in somewhat widely separated part of the county because
of scarlet fever. So far as I could ascertain there had been in none of them
any known exposure to the disease. In view of the fact that an infection from a
light case results quite frequently in a malignant case, and also that the
quarantine period is so long, 49 days; I would ask parents and teachers to be
on the alert and to report any suspected cases. For should it become general it
would almost certainly result in closing a school in the neighborhood where it
was prevalent for a large part of, or it might be, the whole of its term. In
view of the fact that we in common with every section of the United States
stopped all concourses of people in church, schools and places of amusement, it
behooves us to exercise vigilance to avoid similar experiences this fall and
winter.
Whooping Cough Is
Deadly
For some reason, I cannot see why, the public not awake to
the great danger of whooping cough. A study of mortality statistics will show
that its death toll is very large. For this season and always, I would enjoin a
rigid outlook for this matter.
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