The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

July, 1927 The Health Bulletin 29
LITTLE TALKS ABOUT BIG DISEASES
SOME FACTS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW
WE
USED to believe for use in
that SCARLET
FEVER was transferred
from one
person to another
by means of the scales of skin
which come from the patient late
in the disease.
We know now that
this is not true, and that the infection
is spread by the secretions of
the nose and throat, very frequently
in the early
stages of the sickness.
In this respect scarlet fever is
similar to diphtheria, whooping
cough and measles.
SCARLET FEVER is still very
serious as a cause of illness and
death but one which has lost some
few years.
of its terrors in the last
We now have the DICK TEST,
an entirely harmless procedure,
which is an accurate guide as to
whether persons are apt to catch
the disease if exposed to a case.
Of greater importance, however,
are the recent developments of
methods for prevention and treatment.
SCARLET FEVER TOXIN
is being used to an increasing
extent in producing immunity.
This PROTECTION probably
lasts only a year or so and, at
present, is generally recommended
children who have been
or are apt to be exposed to the
disease during epidemics or in
institutions where scarlet fever is
prevalent.
Good results are being reported
with SCARLET FEVER ANTI-
TOXIN. We feel entirely justified
in stating that this is an
efficient TREATMENT for a
disease which heretofore had no
specific remedy. If the case is at
all serious, it is the method of
treatment that certainly should be
considered by parents and the
family physician.
Scarlet Fever is on the way to
oblivion along with Smallpox,
Typhoid Fever and Diphtheria.
Science has provided definite, harmless
methods of prevention which
are available to everybody. Not
to take advantage of these opportunities
can be considered as nothing
more or less than gross personal
negligence. The family in which
these diseases are allowed to enter
is a danger to the community.
Protect yaur family and your
neighborhood by the safe, inexpensive
methods offered by your
physician and your health department.
Diphtheria is
Not Necessary
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children with. Toxin'Antitoxin