Tropical hygiene : a text for the use of teachers / A.H. Kirby.

  • Kirby, A. H.
Date:
1910
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    ciple of vaccination has now been extended to the treatment of other diseases, for instance, diphtheria, which is a very dangerous disease in colder climates, the throat being the part that is most seriously affected. The important things to be remembered are that all children should be vaccinated, when onlv a few weeks old, and that it is best that they should be vaccinated again, when about fourteen years of age. There is the additional circumstance that, when the disease happens to visit a certain district, all the grown-up persons in that district should, pro- perly speaking, be vaccinated again. It is convenient, here, to say something about the way in which infants, as well as adults, should be looked after, when they have been vaccinated. Care should be taken, by using proper clothing and by avoiding exposure, that they do not get a cold or a chill, as they are likely to suffer to a slight extent from fever. The sore places, where the vaccination has been done, should not be wiped or touched in any way, but should remain covered by the cotton lint that has been put on, until this is removed or renewed by the doctor, or when he orders this to be done. It may be necessary, in the case of young children, to put a pad, or a thick bandage, over the sore part, to prevent them from scratching it. The danger of small-pox, in a place where people are dirty and careless, or so ignorant that they do not care about any of the things that have just been learned, is not only that some of them may die from it, but that those who take the disease will get ugly marks on their faces, or even be left blind by it, and