Twin Menace of Small-pox and Stomach Trouble:
Must "Take":
Danger of Infected Vegetable:
Chinese lee: Wi n ing to Foreigners Dr. C, Noel Davis, the Commis sioner of Public Health, lectured before the British Women's Associa [tion on Friday last, week on how to Prevent communicable diseases and ow, food and mile s, m cooks and boys, any of whom may be carriers of disease, how flies often grossly contaminated may crawl over and infect our the maintenance of health in Shang-food, we realize how a duty of The lecturer gave some the first importance for the sake of invaluable advice on the subject of our children and other members of smallpox prevention and emphasized our households, ax well as for our the importance of proper diet during, own sakes, to destroy the infection
Points of the lecture were:
hot, hymid Shanghai summer. before it can reach our "mouths. The simplest and safest way Smallpox is always present, in|given in. the instructions of the China, and is often most virulent,|Public Health Notice and these so that it ix advisable to be|should be scrupulously. and per-efficiently vaccinated every three|sistently observed. The shortest years in order to keep up a high|summary of this notice, "Eat and State of immunity.
It is alsoldrink nothing that has not been advisable, after being vaccinated, to|recently or ask your doctor to observe the sterilized.' result in order to know if the vaccine has taken. With efficient] Native lee Frozen Sewane vaccination some kind of reaction ix always produced.
Among the for vaccination were: That if vaccinated person contract': smallpox the disease is usually modified and much milder than in the ease of an an-vaccinated person; vaccination done immediately after' Jexposure to the infection of small pox will prevent or abort the divea Because of the persistent' presence and virulence of smallpox in China, all people coming out for the first "time should be> efficiently vaccinated before arrival and afterwards every three years in order to maintain a high immunity. The best time, asa rule, is in October or early in November, before the winter sets in, New-born babies often have a temporary immunity against Smallpox and vaccinia if the mother has had smallpox. or has been efficiently vaccinated, but [this immunity rapidly fades and the baby should be vaccinated in the second or third month.
Measles has been described as the stumbling block in papventive medicine because of its intense infestivity.
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