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THE WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER
THURSDAY. APRiL
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Many, Unsuspecting People Have Syphili
Treatment Will
Stop The Spread Of
Loathsome Disease
All Domestic Servants Required
To Have Health Examina
tions Made
There are many people who have
syphilis who do not suspect it, accord
ing to a statement made before the
Rotary Club last Friday by Dr. C.
N. Sisk, head of the district health
department. About ten per cent of
the cases are contracted by unsus
pecting persons.
He continued his remarks by saying:
"There are evidences that syphilis
has existed since the earliest history
of the human race, however, because
of its close relation to reproduction
it has been considered improper to
.speak of it in the unhesitating man
ner that we have considered other com
municable diseases. The disease is
transmitted largely through sex
relation, however, it may be
transmitted through kissing and
by coming in contact with infect
ed utensils and linens. Many cases
are on record as having been trans
mitted to children by contact with an
infected nurse. The disease is gener
ally painless in all its manifestations
and all external evidence of the dis
ease readily disappear under modern
treatment. For this reason it is diffi
cult to convince a victim of the dis
ease that a long course of treatment
is necessary to effectually cure the
disease. Its beginning is frequently
so insignificant as to result in 30 per
cent of individuals suffering with it
to be unable to state an accurate date
of onset. The initial leison of the dis
ease consists of a more or less in
significant nodule of "ulceration at
the site of contact. With or without
treatment this lesion will heal within
a few weeks, and without treatment
will be followed by a series of second
ary lesions consisting of a general
eruption over the body, sores in the
mouth, and enlarged glands. Event
ually after a period of years without
treatment this secondary or most in
fectious stage of the disease will pass
through a third stage of latency
which usually continues until the in
dividual dies as a result of the effects
of the disease upon the heart or some
other vital organ, as during the course
of the disease every organ or struc
ture of the body may be involved.
The most lamentable thing in con
nection with syphilis is the fact that
it may be transmitted to offspring and
result in physical and mental deform
ity in children. Effective remedies
have been discovered so that prac
tical assurance that cure may be as
sured victims of the distase provided
treatment is begun early, and contin
ued over a sufficient period of time.
The most 'difficult thing in connec
tion with the treatment of syphilis is
to convince." individuals that even
though all external evidences of the
disease readily' disappear it is neecs
xary to continue treatment - regularly
for a period of two years.
That syphilis can lie eradicated,
or reduced to a minimunijl has been
demonstrated in Norway, Sweden, and
Denmark, where a few years ago the
case incidence was equal to that of
10 per cent in the United States at
this time. Though quarantine and en
forced treatment in these countries
the incidence has been reduced to one
half of one per cent. Under the
leadership of the Surgeon-General of
U. S. Public Health Service and sup
ported by the entire medical profes
sion, there has recently been launched
throughout the United States a cam
paign for the eradication of syphilis
in this country. Unfortunately a
great majority of victims of the dis
ease come from an economic strate of
our population financially unable to
secure the necessary long course of
treatment, and morally indifferent to
ISSUES WARNING
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DR. C. N. SISK
their own welfare and the welfare
of their family and neighbors. For
tunately in North Carolina there has
been on the statute books since 1917
a law requiring that all syphilitics
receive treatment either at the hands
of the private physicians or at public
expense until cured. In response to
a resolution passed by the Haywood
County Medical Society in January of
this year, the county health depart
ment has established clinics for the
treatment of syphilitics unable or un
willing to secure treatment by the
family physician. A clinic is operated
at the City Hall in Canton on Friday
morning, and at the health depart
ment office in Waynesville on Friday
afternoon of each week, where cases
are accepted for treatment without
cost when referred by the private
physicians, or by the welfare de
partment. It is intended that these
clinics eventually develop to the point
of having all cases of syphilis in the
county under treatment either at the
clinic or by the private physicians.
The law permits a private physician
to handle a case entirely by number
obviating the necessity of the name of
the individual becoming public. How
ever should an individual refuse to
continue treatment by the family phy
sician until cured, it becomes the
duty of the physician to report the
individual by name to the health de
partment in order that proper legal
procedure may bo taken to guaran
tee the removal of the hazard from
society. '
An act passed by the General As
sembly of North Carolina during 1937
requires that all domestic servants
presenting themselves for employment
shall furnish their employer with a
certificate from a practicing physi
cian or public health officer of the
county in which they reside certifying
that they have been examined within
a period of two weeks of the time,
ind showing freedom from all con
tagious, infectious, or communicable
diseases, and showing '.he non-existence
of any veremil disease that might
be transmitted. The employing pub
lic can assist in promoting this cam
paign for the eradication of syphilis,
anil at the same time protect them
selves anil family against contract
ing a loathsome disease by requiring
all domestic servants to present them
with a health certificate as provided
in this law. Many instances of syphil
is in domestic servants in Haywood
county have been discovered in this
way. In the event an employer is
informed that a servant has syphilis
the servant should not be penalized
by being summarily discharged, but
should be required to secure treat
ment regularly, and for a period of
time suggested by the physician, as
the fact is definitely established that
a syphilistic while under treatment
is incapable of transmitting the dis
ease. By following thia course indi
viduals would be promoting the cam
paign for eradicating syphilis, and
would not impose an unnecessary
hardship upon the individual or themselves.
The small end of the eggs of a
Killdeer bird always point toward
the center of the nest.
Work Of Former Waynesville
Citizen To Be Broadcast
Mrs. Harry C. Etheridge, of Frank
lin, Ohio, the former Ethel Jones, of
Waynesville, daughter of the late
Col. S. A. Jones, who is the author
of several children's books, has re
cently had a script accepted by the
National Broadcasting Company.
It will be heard in one of the popu
lar "Smoke Dreams" Droerams. which
are scheduled for next fall.
Mrs. Etheridge has also recently
had a number of her poems accepted
bv popular matrazines. several now
appearing in current issues and others
to be published at later dates.
Harry Elderidge, Jr., her son, edits
a sportman's column on the Franklin
(Ohio) Chronicle, and his wife writes
a column for the woman's page of the
paper.
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each cup of milk when making hot
chocolate or cocoa, will improve the
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE
On Monday, May 16, 1938, at eleven
o'clock A. M. at the court house door
in Waynesville, Haywood County
North Carolina, the undersigned will
sell at public outcry, to the highest
bidder for cash, the following lands
and premises, lying on the waters of
Sorrells Branch, in Waynesville Town
ship, Haywood County, North Caroli
na, to-wit:
BEGINNING at a stake near the
Northeast corner of the bi n
Jerry Patton's house, lu,ln;.
branch S. 40 W. 14 po !"r "H
thence crossing the h,-ai. 5
28 poles to a pine: , 1 Jf I
deg. E. 14 poles to a stake- . '
44deg. W 28 poles
MNG, containing Tu,
acres. w-f-4;
Sale madp , r.
sale cnrtfprr, nr,,,- .l 'wf t
trustee, ry deed of trust
riioo p rntt ,
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corded in Book L'6, page "42,
of Deeds of Trust of Havwooii'r '
This the 15th day .0f AM "
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mer lawyer, who succeeds Fred
Faggr. Jr., who resigned to join
Northwestern university' faculty.
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wthin th department.
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