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Grady County Progress
PRETTY SHAMROCK ALPHABET
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HI BARBER SHOP
While Not Dangerous, It Is High-
i ly Contagious — Sometimes
I Complications F o 1 low,
Says State Health
Board.
Atlanta, Ga.—Although chicken-pox
Is regarded as one of the natural ail
ments incident to childhood, there
are several important reasons, says
the Georgia State Board of Health,
why parents should exercise all the
care that would be taken with a more
dangerous epidemic disease.
In the first place, while chicken-
pox, when properly treated, leaves
no permanent disfigurement of the
skin, if neglected or permitted to be
come severe, it may leave scars or
pock marks Bimilar to the pits that
come from small-pox. All that is
usually necessary to prevent the
Bears is proper medical attention and
the exercise of care to prevent the
patient from scratching the eruptions.
If small children persist in scratching,
it is a good idea to put mittens on
their hands. Itching may be alleviat
ed by carbolized and warm baths, and
the application of oil may be used to
hasten the separation of the crusts.
Another reason why chicken-pox
cases should he given careful atten
tion is the fact that while severe ill
ness or death seldom, if ever, occurs
in uncomplicated caBes, there is al
ways a possibility of complications
that might lead to serious results.
Complications are rare, but when they
do occur they consist usually of pneu
monia, erysipelas and inflammation of
the kidneys (nephritis). Not Infre
quently chicken-pox is complicated by
some other infectious disease, but
this, however, is more of a coincid
ence than a true complication.
Another reason for exercising
special care in chicken-pox cases,—
and this is the most important reason
of all from the standpoint of com
munity welfare,—is the fact that the
disease is highly contageous, and
when the children of a family, or a
school or a neighborhood have been
once exposed to it, scarcely any child
who has not had the disease escapes
contagion.
Usually Confined to Children.
The disease Is usually communicat
ed in the ordinary intercourse of
children in the family, the school or
the playgrounds. While grown peo
ple are not entirely immune, it is
usually confined to children. The
poison is eliminated not only through
surface of the body and the crusis
broken from the eruption, but even
In the air which the person breathes.
It is believed by physicians that it
«an enter the body by way of the
respiratory passages. Direct con
tact, therefore, is not necessary, the
Infection being communicated to some
.little distance by the air; it can also
be carried more remotely by persons
who do not contract the disease
themselves, but who transmit it to
persons who are more susceptible.
The importance of isolation and
sanitary precautions, in the light of
the disease's highly contageous na
ture, becomes immediately manifest.
Isolation should be practiced, and the
quarantine should be prolonged until
the last crusts are thrown off. Dis
infection of the person, clothing and
aparttment is desirable to minimize
the danger of spreading the disease.
These measures, and the treatment
of the disease, should be carried out
under the direction of a physician.
Chicken-Pox Symptons.
Chicken-pox is ordinary, an easy
disease to diagnose. It develops in
from ten to sixteen days after ex
posure. The first indication is usually
the apparunce of small, bright red
spots, which rapidly develop into
water blisters called vesicles. They
vary in size,( the largest being about
the diameter of a split pea. There
vesicles are on the surface of the. skin
and do not go deep. Usually there is
no suppuration or pus. The disease is
often accompanied by slight fever.
Surrounding each vesicle is a narrow
bright red ring called an nerolla. They
come out in crops on the body; some
times on the face and scalp; and oc
casionally even in the mucous mem
brane of the mouth. The blisters
seldom go on to pustulation, but
rapidly dry up after the fluid in them
becomes opaque. In addition to slight
feverishness there may be loss of ap
petite, aching feeling, and catarrhal
inflammation. The duration of the
attack is variable. Three or four
weeks is usually the extreme limit
before the separation of the last
crusts. Relapses do not occur. Im
munity from future attacks is prac
tically permanent.
- But It must be understood that
chicken-pox has no relation whatever
So smallpox, end the fact that a pa
tient has had one of them before, nev
er protects from the other.
The medical name of chicken-pox
is varicella. It was once regarded as
a greatly modified and mild form of
small-pox, but it is now known as
an entirely distinct disease. One of
these diseases never gives rise to
the other. The attack of one con
fers no immunity against the other;
vaccination affords no protection
against chicken-pox, and.children who
have recently suffered from chicken-
pox re-act to vaccination in the or
dinary manner.
A liillKST
si. imp fire
Georgia State Board of Health
Explains Dangers of the
Disease, Erysipelas, and
Outlines Necessary
Precautions.
Atlanta, Ga.—"Mothers, warn your
children against the dangers of Saint
Anthony’s Fire,’’ says the Georgia
State Board of Health, in an interest
ing bulletin setting forth tho con
tageous nature of this disease, which
is simply erysipelas under another
name, and which enters the body
through some wound, cut or abras
ion not properly cared for.
Erysipelas gets its other more pic
turesque name from the fact that it
is a virulant inflammation, accom
panied by an intense burning sensa
tion, which thins the skin a fiery,
heated red.
Erysipelas is a highly contageous
germ disease. The only safe way to
guard against it is to wash all scrat-.
ches, cuts and other wounds with
some simple but effective antiseptic
solution, and. protect the place where
the skin is broken from outside in
fection.
Where a case of erysipelas already
exists the patient should be Isolated
and the utmost care should be taken
to prevent its spread to other peo
ple. AH the piecautions taken in
other contageous diseases should be
used, and above all on one on whose
hand there is the slightest scratch
should touch any of the bedclothes
or other articles that come in con
tact with the patient.
A scratch which would be too trlval
to be remembered may be the poim
of entrance of these germs. Motners
at the time children are born, are li
able to the disease unless the strict
est antiseptic cleanliness is practiced.
Known to the Aucients.
Erysipelas is one of the oldest
diseases known to medicine, Greco-
Roman and Arabian physicians were
acquainted with it in ancient times.
Hippocrates and Galen both wrote
about it. It is common to all ages
and all countries.
Erysipelas seems to depend in all
cases on the existence of a wound or
abrasion. It usually manifests itself
in from three to seven days after the
germ has gained entrance through the
broken place in the skin. The skin
of the face is the most usual site of
the disease. There is a tingling soon
followed by an intense burning at the
point where the germ entered. The
spot soon becomes red and hot, slight
ly raised above the surface of the
surrounding healthy skin. The mar
gins are sharply defined. Very often
blisters form on the diseased surface.
Swelling as a rule is pronounced, and
when the face Is the seat of the di
sease the patient is sometimes ren
dered unrecognizable during the ill
ness.
The disease spreads rapidly, but
the part involved today may be free
of the disease tomorrow. The general
condition of the patient during the
progress of the disease depends on
previous health, age and physical con
dition at the time. When patients are
not aged and are in otherwise good
health the symptoms are not. ordi
narily very severe. There may be
slight chilliness^ loss of appetite,
headache and fever for one or two
days.
When the disease is not complicated
by weakness other aliments or old
age, the prospects for recovery are
good. But in the aged and those de
bilitated by the presence of some
other diseases, such as chronic
bright's disease, chronic malaria, dia
betes, and the like, erysipelas may
produce alarming symptoms and not
infrequently cause death. In these
patients there is a dry tongue, high
fever, rapid pulse, labored breathing,
great proBtrattion and delirium.
Sometimes suppuration or gangrene
of the diseased skin may set in before
death occurs.
Complications Go With It.
Erysipelas is sometimes complicat
ed by meningitis, pneumonia, pleuri-
sy, inflammation of the kidneys, and
septicemia or so-called blood poison
ing. There may be also inflamma
tion of the lining membrane of the
heart.
Erysipelas is, therefore, an extreme
ly serious disease either for youhg or
old, and in all cases a competent
physician or surgeon should immed
iately be culled in.
Parents and school teachers and
all otthers who exercise an influence
over children are urged by the Board
of Health to describe to the children,
in simple language, how this and oth
er dangerous diseases may result
from small cuts when not properly
treated, in order that they may be
made to understand the necessity of
protecting even trlval cuts from in-
fectlon. This Is a case in which an
ounce of prevention is truly worth a
pound of cure.
Erysipelas is found during all sea
sons of the year, and in all parts of
the country, but the period of its
most frequent occurence in this la-
ttitude is during the spring months.
There is no epidemic or special pre
valence of erysipelas in Georgia at
this time, but the disease is always
more or less present in all commun
ities, hence the general timeliness of
the advice and warning.
Printing With a
Our Printing Has the “Punch”
IT PUTS YOUR BUSINESS IN THE
■championship CLASS.
Letterheads, Envelopes, Bill
heads, Etc.
Hav You Tried the NEW
BARBER SHOP? Where they
are Giving GOOD EASY
SHAVES for A DIME! If not,
you should call in and give them
a trial. They are located on North
Side of Railroad, in the OLD
RODDENBERY STORE.
THE GRADY BARBER SHOP
CAIRO, - - GA.
Gee. W. Hurst, Prop.
One of the Valdosta banks is to
get some of the crop-moving fed*
eral deposit money. Good for
Valdosta. Bro. Walker must
have quite a “pull” with the
treasury guys at headquarters.
Among the visiting attorneys
attending cou rt this week wer$
R., G. Hartsfield, B. B. Bower
and W. V. Custer, Bainbridge,
Roscoe Lnke, of Thomasville; R fc
R. Terrell and S. P. Cain of
Whigham; Robt. L. Cox of Ca
milla.
Adv.
GIN PRESSES MUST BE
>R
UNIFORM SIZE
THE NEW GIN AT CAIRO REMODELED
The Transportation Companies have entered into an agreement to charge
$1.00 per bale extra above regular freights for cotton in bales larger than
27 x 54. This means that the farmer will lose $1.00 on every bale of cotton
not coming up to the standard.
THE GRADY GINNING COMPANY, Cairo, Ga.
has complied with these requirements and will hereafter turn out nothing but
standard bales. They have also thoroughly ever-hauled their entire plant,
have engaged three expert ginners for the season, and are now in a position
to do as good work as a gin can be mabe to do. THEIR s WORK IS FULLY
GUARANTEED.
WILL SAVE SEED FOR PLANTING
The plant is now so arranged that they can save your planting seed for
you in perfect condition. They will also buy seed and pay the highest
market price.