By J.A. Morris, C.H.O.
The public is warned that the diphtheria carrier is still abroad.
The only way to find him or her is to get a laboratory culture and examination.
Remember the carrier can give your child diphtheria about as easily as a sick case can.
Not everybody can be made to suffer from diphtheria. Everybody may take the germ of this disease, and if that person taking it has antitoxin in his blood either naturally or by acquiring it, he or she will have no symptom of the presence of the germ in his or her throat, but can give the germs out to others as easily as if they had the symptoms of sore throat and fever.
These are serious facts, and they account for the spread of the disease with no known contact with a case.
What will you do about it for protection?
Here is a way now offered in the schools for protection: Have all children Schick tested. This tells with certainty whether the boy or girl has this protective antitoxin in his or her blood. If, after the test, it is shown that the boy or girl does not have the protection of this natural or acquired antitoxin in his or her blood, have that one take the three doses of Toxin-Antitoxin which causes the blood to being to develop the protective antitoxin.
The value of the Schick test is that it reveals who need protection with absolute certainty. It is not painful to take. There is no reaction from it except a small spot which is without inconvenience. This procedure3 will have giving the toxin-antitoxin to any but those who need it, an important item both to the individual and the State.
During the week beginning December 1 next, the State Department of Health will show moving pictures on Health subjects including protection from diphtheria. Dates given later for all consolidated schools.
From the front page of the Oxford Public Ledger, Nov. 25, 1924
newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073078/1924-11-25/ed-1/seq-1/#words=NOVEMBER+25%2C+1924
No comments:
Post a Comment