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L A HEALTHY START TO SCHOOL
W This month thousands of little chil
' dren all over the country are starting
an entirely unfamiliar routine of daily
; life. They are entering school for
the first time, faced with a number of
adjustments to be made in this change
; in their day’s schedule.
On the surface, most of them seem
i well-prepared for the adventure.'
They have new dresses and suits, pen
cil iboxes and pads and even fruit and
crackers for recess. But, unfortun
ately, many of them may not have
; the sound health so important to a
good start in school.
Those children whose parents* took
them to a doctor for a thorough med
ical check-up before the opening of
school and followed any suggestions
the doctor might have made actually
are the best prepared. Certainly
every child should have a routine
physical examination at least once a
year but it is especially important
as part of his preparation for school.
A Many doctors believe that the time
of life when the child is entering
school is among the mofet neglected
periods of his life. They point out
that infants and small babies are as
a rule well cared for with careful
superivision of diet, protection from
disease and accidents and the pre
scribed periodic visits to the baby
doctor or clinic. The older child, on
the other hand, “speaks up” when
he is not feeling up to par.
Usually, it is the child of the pre
school and kindergarten age whose
health is most apt ' to be neglected.
He has advanced beyond the “baby
stage”, with its careful supervision,
and yet is not old enough to help
take care of himself.
A child’s physical well-being should
4 be of special concern to his parents
at this time. First of all, many de
fects or imperfections that might
otherwise handicap him in later life,
or even shorten his life, can be de
* tected and taken care of at this early
age. Secondly, the check-up might
insure a happier school life for the
child, cutting down on the time lost
from school because of illness and
enabling him to study and learn to
full capacity with the minimum of
trouble as far as his health is con
cerned.
For example, children should have
certain protections against diseases
before they enter school. Every
child should be vaccinated before he
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enters'school; most schools require
it. Doctors advise, as a matter of
fact, that measures be taken to pro
tect every baby against diphtheria,
whooping cough and smallpox be
fore the end of his first year.
The “preschool” check-up often
means that impaired hearing or vis
ion, diseased tonsils and adenoids, de
cayed teeth, malnutrition arid spinal
curvature are detected at a time
when they are most easily corrected.
Never wait until g child is serious
ly ill before you take him to a doc
tor. And don’t send him off tp his
“big adventure” of school life with i
“three strikes” of imperfect health
or corrective defects against him.
RABIES
Rabies, sometimes known as hydro
phobia, isn’t as great a problem in
this country as some other diseases,
but once it develops in animals or in
man, it is almost always fatal.
The disease is caused by a virus'
| that attacks the brain and the spinal
cord. The virus is present in the!
Baliva of animals infected with the
disease and it is transmitted to an
other animal or to a person by the
bite of the sick animal. Upon rare
occasions the disease apparently has
glso been transmitted 'when the sick
animal’s saliva has merely come in
contact with an open wound.
Dog bites are the cause of most
cases of rabies that occur among
people, although all warm-blooded
animals can contract the disease.
Rabies can occur at any time of the
year, but it is generally associated
with summer because dogs are more
apt to wander about in the open dur
ing summer months and so dog bites
are more common then.
Not ‘everyone who is bitter by a
dog is in danger of rabies. A dog
bite is dangerous only if the animal,
has the disease and, even then, rabies
can be prevented from developing if
proper treatmeht is begun at once.
It takes several weeks, or even
months, for the disease to develop.
Once symptoms have developed, the
disease cannot be cured. So it is
important to start preventive meas
ures as soon as possible when there
is any danger of rabies.
Don’t take chances with a dog bite.
The wound should be washed thor
oughly at once with soap and water,
preferably with green soap solution.
It is very important to consult the
doctor. He not only is in the best
to give advice regarding
[what treatment should be given, but
he will also determine whether or.
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not the affair needs to be reported to
the health officer, who has the res
ponsibility for placing under observa
tion any dog suspected of rabies.
Never kill a dog suspected of rabies;
report it to the health officer instead.
If a dog is killed too early in the dis
ease, sufficient changes in Its brain
will not have occurred to make it
possible to tell in the laboratory
whether the dog really had rabies or
not. In that case the person bitten
may have to take the preventive
“shots” as the only safe course when
actually the dog didn’t have rabies
! at all.
To prevent rabies in a person bit
ten by a rabid dog the doctor in
oculates him with a vaccine which is
a modification of one first used by
Louis Pasteur. The doctor’s advice
on such shots should be followed im
mediately, sihee treatment is useless
if begun too late.
The health officer, or his represent
ative, keeps a dog suspected of rabies
under observation for about ten days,
and during this period has it confined
in such a manner that it cannot hite
anyone. Although as in man it may
take weeks and even months for
rabies to develop in a dog, the virus
does not appear in its saliva until
within ten days of unmistakable signs
of rabies, so that if the dog appears
to be normal ten days after a bite,
there is no danger the person bitten
will develop rabies.
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INEPH Week Will Be
Observed Oct 3-9
Committees Named By
Mrs. Corie B. White
To Assist
Plans for “National Employ the
Physically Handicapped Week,” desig
nated every year October 8-9 by the
PtwHwlb Gorman Bad Mayors
thronghoal the Mthn are under way
la ttb locality.
The United States Employment
Harriot has been designated for pro
moting this program with the assist
ance of all government agencies deal
ing with the handicapped, together
with all organizations representing
abor, management, veteran, religious
groups, welfare, civic, fraternal, wo
men’s clubs, press and radio.
A local committee has been select
ed by Mrs. Corie B. White, local man
ager of the Employment Service for
Chowan and Perquimans counties, to
assist in promoting “Hire the Handi
capped” program.
“There are a million and a half
plain ordinary people in every city
and town of America who are handi
capped, seeking jobs,” says Mrs.
White. “You know them —they are
your relatives, neighbors, friends, and
they live on your street in your town.
Without a job, handicapped Americans
are national liabilities. With a suit
able job, handicapped Americans are
assets to themselves, employers, their
community and the nation.
“Mr. Employer, how are you help
ing Mr. and Mrs. Citizen? What are
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Those serving on the local commit
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Vivian Darden, Hertford, proclama
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Peter Carlton, radio and program
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J. Edwin Bufflap, Evelyn Leary and
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Mrs. J. 11. McMullan, superinten
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Dr. Martin Wisely, president of the
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James E. Wood, president of the
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Hermit Layton, commander of the
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Henry G. Quinn, commander of
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
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2208 Bull Street, Savannah, Ga., an
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