The Scio tribune., July 16, 1925, Image 1

•ore throat or au-picious symp­
toms.
2. Antitoxin is a natural pro­
Regarding four deaths from
diptheria in New York, "none of duet and can do no harm. Delay
the patients received antitoxin in administration can and does.
A doctor must thr of . - -.
S . -
Lawrence Hawthorne
••arlier than the third day of the
1.
Out
of
75
death-«
from
dip
­
disease. ” Of three more child­
Aero»« the rolling hills of life
ren who died, one was not seen theria analysed in Chi« ».. r. <■: il­
A friendly highway leads.
ly.
30
were
dua
to
faiiur
to
c.«U
by a physician for six days after
■
A
road w hose every wondrous mile
the disease started, another for a doctor early enough. 2 7 to
h paved with noble deeds.
four days and the third for "sev­ failure of doctor to make early
JL-C", For any nian this course lieguis
eral days." Reports such as diagnosis, 12 to in-ufli. iei.t
Where will and Judgment meet,
L V. Where solemn purpose points the way
these are very common, and are amount of antitoxin u* 1 and
d v‘T
And kindness guides his feet.
of great importance in view of only six probably unavmd «in-
the many small outbreaks of dip­ ; 2. It doe* not hur t give
This highway is the only road
antitoxin occasionally m a re •
theria in Oregon lately.
That leads to great success;
which is n«»t diptheria.
It i
Diptheria antitoxin has been
No other trail, no sidelong path
often deadly tn d« ay until an
in use for almost thirty years,
W ill find true happiness.
absolute diagnosis nit i>< made.
vet in Oregon, in 1924, 107 deaths
Though up and down its route may nut
fi**m diptheria were reported,
it carries straight and far
And gains at last that haven where
and there were probably more.
Life's great possessions are.
How many of these deaths were
Dirty milk in expm ive as a
n<*c«-ssary, and how many could
The youth who sets a worthy goal
p t
have been avoided? It has been gift and clean mil. i« c>
And formulates a plan
shown that where antitoxin is any price. Dirty milk r ills in
Of progress that enable« him
given on the first day of the complaints, loss of confidence
To serve his fellow man
disease. only 2.2 per cent of the the milkman who puts it <>n tie
Begins at once to know the joys
That glorify and bless
cases die, while by the second market, and dire-t Io-»» thi n ‘i
The lives of those who daily walk
day the percentage has risen to replacements of milk due t
The R;>ad of Happiness.
7.6. if the antitoxin is delayed ing.
Cleanliness
in
the
barn
large
till the third day. seventeen out
of each hundred die. and the per­ determines the amount of Jut m
centage rises to twenty-four for milk. Care on the imrt of k« op­
the fourth and thirty-four each era in currying and grv mit ■: a
for the fifth and sixth days. This imals. washing the udder j>.
gives some idea of the importance before milking, and genera; clean­
liness around the stalls, with
of immediate attention.
eea? There is an >th«-r way besid,»
Typhoid Vaccination
The germs of diptheria live clean habita on the ¡»art of the
avoiding the germ*: by taking the
only on a small area of the body, milker are the determining fact­
fight to the ffirmy and strengthen-
Typhoid fever can be prevented
usually in the throat, mouth or ors in obtaining clean milk.
ing our bodies again«! the gern, so
Smooth, durable, non-absorb- in a number of wav« -moat of them
nose. The damage is done by a
tnat we may not develop the diwa«e
ing
utensils of such a nature that good Since the disease is caused
poison, or toxin which it manu­
even if It get» in.
factures and which is carried all they can be easily washed and bv swallowing the germs, anything
A petaon who get» typhoid fever
over the body by the blood. This sterilized are ideal for the milk that will kill them in what we eat
develops resisting ih . w er t<> the
poison attacks the tissues of the house and barn. Milking with or drink Is effective. Since the
germ. If he didn't, he'd nevei get
body, notably the nervous system •mall top milk pads keeps moat germs entei food and drink by c«»n-
well. Th a resisting power stay« on
tammation with the wastes of
and the heart muscle, accounting of the dirt out of the milk.
A well ventilated and screened people who excrete typhoid verms, for aome yean,, and keep« htm from
for the paralysis often following
getting typhoid fever again during
ditpheria, and the frequent milk house with proper washing anything that keep* these wastes
that time, even though he should
deaths from heart failure follow­ facilities and an abundant supply from coming in contact with food
«wallow the germ«, it*« the same
ing exertion after the disease of clean water and hot water, and drink will prevent the diaeaso.
These means are employed wher­ •urt of immunity that ia produced
and of such a nature that it can
seems to be over.
bv many other di«e»«<'». The body,
Antitoxin is an antidote to the be washed thoroughly and fre­ ever sufficient supervision can be
however, doe» not distinuuhh 1«.
poison, destroying it as it passes quently. is essential to the pro­ given, as in towns with active health
department«
The water «ut>ply is , tween live and dead germ», when it
through the body, before it can duction of clean milk.
»tarts fighting. In other word«, it
Health of the animalsis anoth­ cirefu’iy watched, and i« purified if
attack the body tissues. After
will fight dead germs, and thereby
the toxin has once attacked the er factor in clean milk produc­ ' necessary. Dairies are kept under
develop its re«i«ling power, ju«t a«
body, antitoxin can no longer tion. Removal of an.mala hav­ contru'. and milk is usually pastur- j it would live one«. Ths •i.u.l on«'»,
neutralise it, for the damage is ing infiamaUon of the udder or ized to make sure it i« safe. Food-
though, cannot multiply and pro­
done Therefore the antitoxin any other serious ailment to a i handlers are examined to see that
duce
typhoid fever. We take ad
must be given early enough to private stall until th«' ailment they ate nut typhoid carriers, or vantage of this h »bit of the l><> ly bv
forestall damage to the body by disappears will prevent infection people who, having had the disease,
injecting de^d typhoid bacilli und< r
the toxin. Antitoxin is a per­ from being carried from one ani­ •till excrete the germ«, which are the «km. Thereby we fool o u r
fectly normal substance, which mal to another on the hanJs of sure t» Infeet the food which they bodies into thinking that they have
handle.
is formed by all bodies infected the milkers.
, live ones to fight, and train them to,
All th»—«• meth-ids are good, and
with diptheria. What we do is
resist live ones when they do meet
In urban communities keep the ty-
to supply an extra amount, to
I them.
uh -id fever ca - s down to a vrry
supplement that which is natur­
The fight of the body against the
I >w 4ev*l. When we travel around.
ally being formed, but which is
Oregon is fifth among the «'at •
dead germs sometime« produce* a
formed too slowly to prevent providing c» unty library service for > however, we are much more apt to little fever, but the great comfort
damage to the system and pos­ its etlixens, according to the Sear« come into contact with tvphold of knowing we are protected against
| germs. The soring that we camo
sible death.
Roebuck Agricultural Foundation. .
typhoid make« up for that. This
A parent must remember that: which reports that eleven count i- i oy may i»e polluted; the farmer that typhoid "vaccination" is valuable at
1. Diptheria is dangerous but io the state are now rendering thin i , w*-l■ s us our milk may be' excreting all time», but especially so when we
! typhoid germs, and include a few
most cureable at the start. Call type of service. The counties are: j
contemplate a camping trip. If w.
a doctor at once if the child has Deschutes, Douglas. Hood River, ' billions of them grad« per quart take it «very three years, we keep
When Diphtheria Kilk
Food and Health
£ jfyiyi¡apptiiesi
"Q.
Even at home we may run acroas a
Jackson, Josephine. Klamath, Mai-
resturant where an undiscovered ourselves protected against all ordi­
hour, Multnomah, Polk, Umatilla
carrier is employed as cook. What nary chances of getting the disease
•nd Warn
’ can we do under these cir<*umstan- Typhoid vacci' ation was mainly
Of ths twenlv-five state« hiving
respons.bie for the great drop tn
library service only ten. Including
the number of caae» from the Span­
Oregon, have right or more coun­
ish-American to the late World
ties handling reading matter on this
War, with about two hundred cases
basis. In all, there are about 200
per one thousand soldiers annually
counties in the United States where
in the former and one-third case
Saturday Sunday
residents may enjoy thia service.
Real Edate Broker
per thousand per year in the latter.
California leads the nation with 43
and Notary Publx
Frètent»
counties equipped for this work.
dtutralli Obtained. fatamined
Charles Tucek and wife, Joe
The eounty library is especially
JCIO
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OREGON
i Novak and family. John Hubacei»
helpful to families living off the hard
J and F. B. Studnicka left Saturday
roads, who but for this might have
morning to join a party of friend«
no access to books. Stores, school*
, from Springfield cn an outing of a
and churches are generally used for
: week or ten day« at Waldport and
the distribution of books, and the
' other points on the eoast.
rural mail delivery and parcel post,
enable the library to send books di­
A number of Scio pvopla at tend­
Theatre
ItfLSY S^eLVOQ
rectly to nay individual in the coun-
Yukon Jake
Comedy
ed tha band concvrl in Albany last
j Wednesday night.
Stales Departm«'
Save with Safety
Rexall Drug Store
Put your faith in Retail Rem­
edies.
You can use them
with confidence.
Satisfadton Guaranteed
Your» for
S ervice I
KELLY’S
DRUG STORE
DR. A. G. PRILL
Physician
•nd
Surgeon
Pittrkt Surgeon S. P. Railway
Scio. Or.