Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1899 — Board of Health and Diphtheria. [ARTICLE]

Board of Health and Diphtheria.

The bulletin of the state boar#, of health has this to say regarding diphtheria: “This disease bae beem* reported as appearing in almost; every county in the state witbisr the last two weeks. The mortaHtjr is low, a result largely due to thm now quite general use of antitoxinu Investigation shows, of those who,, as physieiaus, nurses or otherwise,, are assoeiated with diphtheria patients, that 18 per cent carrjr contagion in their throats. Unless therfore, those who are in contact with the disease will spray nostrils and throat with an antiseptic, tbeyr should be looked upon as dangerous* This spraying should be in addition to precautions against carrying the contagion on hands, hair and clothes.