Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1909 — FOR YOUR HEALTH’S SAKE [ARTICLE]

FOR YOUR HEALTH’S SAKE

‘ Preventing Epidemics. 1 ' Proper and systematic medical ■ inspection of schools will pre- ' vent the development -of epidem- ' ics of scarlet fever and diphtheria. ' A child with a mild case of either ■ of the diseases mentioned may at- ■ tend school for several days and ' innocently spread the infection to ' scores of its schoolmates. In ■ such cases the investigation that ' seeks to discover the cause of the ' outbreak has been started too ' late to be of much practical val- ' ue. It is prevention that counts.