Epidemics; how to meet them . thought by many to be compara-tively harmless. This is a great mistake. If neglected,few diseases are more liable to result disastrously. Insome States the mortality from measles is twice thatfrom scarlet fever, and more than half that from diph-theria. At the present time there are more deaths frommeasles than from smallpox. More than 12,000 deathsoccur in this country every year from measles. But the number of deaths from measles itself doesnot tell the whole story. Many children are left per-manently weakened in health. Among the more seriousafter-effects are b
Epidemics; how to meet them . thought by many to be compara-tively harmless. This is a great mistake. If neglected,few diseases are more liable to result disastrously. Insome States the mortality from measles is twice thatfrom scarlet fever, and more than half that from diph-theria. At the present time there are more deaths frommeasles than from smallpox. More than 12,000 deathsoccur in this country every year from measles. But the number of deaths from measles itself doesnot tell the whole story. Many children are left per-manently weakened in health. Among the more seriousafter-effects are bronchitis, broncho-pneumonia, tubercu-losis, impaired hearing, weak eyes, diseases of the throatand stomach, chronic kidney affection, hardening of thearteries, and nervous affections. The younger the child,the greater the danger of serious results. About 120,009lives in America are every year either destroyed or mademiserable by the effects of this disease. These are factsfrom medical authorities. No, measles is not a matter. I > T ^ ) n
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