Hints about the prevention of measles / [by J.B.R., i.e. James Burn Russell].

  • Russell, James Burn, 1837-1904.
Date:
[1897?]
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Credit: Hints about the prevention of measles / [by J.B.R., i.e. James Burn Russell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    I The older a child is t. Measles; and, if it does, 2 le less likely is it to catch he less likely is it to die. If every child could be protected from Measles until it had passed its fifth year, the mortality from Measles would be enormously decreased. It is therefore a great mistake—because, as a rule, children sooner or later have Measles—tO Say The sooner the better, and to take no means to protect them, or even deliberately to expose them to infection. It is wrong for mothers with children in arms to go into houses where Measles exists. Every child ill of Measles ought at onco to be put to bed and kept warm. The mildest cases may be made serious by a chill. Measles is, for this reason, most dangerous in winter and spring. A case of Measles continues infectious for at least three weeks after the appearance of the rash. During that time separation from the healthy ought to be secured either by removal of the sick to hospital or by isolation at home. Isolation means not merely a separate room for the sick, but the withdrawal of apparently healthy children of the same family from school (day and Sunday), and the exclusion of strange children from the house. The isolation, as far as possible, from other children of all children belonging to the same family is more necessary in the case of Measles than of any other infectious disease, because of this peculiarity—for days before the rash comes out, the child is highly infectious.