Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1907 — Scarlet Fever Situation. [ARTICLE]

Scarlet Fever Situation.

1. Total number of cases to date, 5. 2. N umber recovered 3. 3. Of the 2 remaining, one,! a 3 year old boy is quite low the other an adult, is improving. 4. Quarantine has been lifted from the Florence family everything thoroughly disinfected and the bed clothing burned. Strict quarantine is maintained over the remaining cases, no one allowed in and out save the physician. The nurse is quarantined as well. 5. Probable source of infection is a rummage sale, first child taking it having worn some clothing purchased there. Hereafter the Health officer will disinfect all such sales. 6. “Scarlatina,” the medical and latin term and “Scarlet fever.” the common term are one and the same disease and one which is infectious and contagious “Scarlet rash” is a term loosely used but is not recognized by physicians. The so called rashes due to some mild skin or bowel disturbance or possibly malaria in not “scarlet rash” but “Roseola,” scarlet fever or scarlatina has a variety of types such as “mild” “severe” and malignant and liable to have complication of kidneys, ears and throat

M. D. GWIN,

Sec’y.