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Whooping Cough ;
Whooping cough is a highly contagions or catching disease. Very young babies have sime resistance inherited from their mothers but it lasts only a short time and many fatal cases occur in babies less than a year old. All children may catch the disease unless they have already had it or have been protected with whooping cough vaccine^ but they are not likely to have it more than ■ one time in their lives.
Whooping cough is so dangerous to young children that at least ten per cent of cases less* than four years old are apt to die. The very young are especially likely to have severe pneumonia while '' weakened by whooping cough,
Children catch it from other eases by breathing in the tiny droplets of infected mouth spray which are expelled into the air around the patients when they cough. They are most apt to spread the disease in the early stages before whooping signs and before it is recognised as whooping cough. Children always should be kept away from others with coughs or colds of any kind. Whenever whooping cough is known to be in the neighborhood, parents should be especially careful to keep their children from being exposed to it. Syaptwu
About two weeks after exposure to a case, susceptible children show the first symptoms of their own attack. These usually are mild at first and the children continue to play with their friends.^ and spread the disease among " them. A dry, brassy cough appears, But there is little or no« fever nor other alarming symptoms for a time. The cough persists and does not yield to the usual household remedies. In about ten days the nature of the cough changes to hard spells of coughing which gradually become more frequent and severe. The coughing spells are very exhausting and leave the child so out Of breath that it frantically draws in a huge breath of air with the crowing sound that gives the disease its name. These paroxysms often cause the sick child to lose (See HEALTH DEPT,, page 8.)
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