Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1916 — Infantile Paralysis Should Not Interfere With School Opening. [ARTICLE]

Infantile Paralysis Should Not Interfere With School Opening.

The state board of health is in receipt of numerous inquiries from school officials throughout the state in regard to the opening of schools on account of prevalence of infantile paralysis in New York city. In answer to these inquiries the state board says that there is not likely to be an outbreak of the disease at the bpening of the schools in Indiana and certainly not if the schools are opened under medical supervision. The board wishes to emphasize the importance of medical supervision in the only as a means of safety and prevention against paralysis, but against all communicable diseases. There is greater danger of an outbreak of measles, scarlet fever or diphtheria in connection with the opening of the schools than there is of infantile paralysis. Not only is medical supervision of schools of great importance in connection with the prevention of these diseases, but it is the best means of controlling “communicable diseases whenever an outbreak occurs in a community. It is always far better and safer to have the children of a community under competent medical supervision daily than to permit the children to, mingle together upon the streets without supervision of any kind. The school under medical supervision becomes a clearing house wherein diseases communicable are detected promptly and efficient steps an be taken to prevent the disease spreadings to others.