Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1927, Page 6

DIPHTHERIA DRIVE PLANS APPROVED Campaign for " Immunization of .Small Children to Start April 30. HE'S PASSED ALl TH' SACRED TESTS, MOST EXHALTEP MO MKEYMOMK., AN' HE AT SHOWED THX WHITE FEATHER Plans of the District Heaith author- | fties to start this Summer a city-wide campaign for immunization of pre-| school age. children against diphtheria | were formally approved yesterday by | the Child Health day-May day com- | mittee, which made arrangements to | incerporate in its program for 1 April 30, a strong appeal to the public | to protect children against the dis-| ease. i ‘Announcement of the city’s plans| was made by both Dr. Hugh J. Davis, { director of the child hygiene service of the Health Department and chair man of the May day committee, ang Dr. A. Murphy. supervisory med " jcal inspector for the public schools. They spoke at a meeting of the com-| f »eial Service House 1022 Eleventh street. Beginning June! , they #aid, the campaign would start | to immunize children at the city’s various child hygiene clinics and at the Children's Hospital, child welfare department clinic Plans Made for Program The committée not only gave its| unanimous indorsement to this move | by the city, but agreed to expend | funds to carry the message more for cibly to the parents of the city during the elaborate Child Health day-M: day program, to be held on April 30. Preliminary arrangements also were made for an extensive program dur- ifig the afternoon from 330 to 5 a'clock on the Ellipse. Nine tents will be erected on the Ellipse for health | demonstrations and there will be m: drifling and other formations by the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Gold Star children, 40 be selected from the city schools because. of physical fitness, | and probably other features. The committee authorized Miss Mar- garet H. Craig, chairman of the pro. gram committee to conduct the pro- gram with large groups in impressive formations, instead of a number of «mall groups. Parents will be urged to take their children to the child clinics for examination April 30. Forcefully presenting the need for immunization of children in Wash- ington against diphtheria, Dr. Mur- shy declared that the average of 30 leaths among Washington children gach year from diphtheria could be iuch reduced by the protection pro- vided by the treatment at the clinics, e by private physicians. Stresses fmmunization Need. “Diphtheria,” he said, “ exceed- ingly fatal to very young children, and to children of the pre-school age. If we are going to reduce the school child mortality, and the terrific risk to children of the pre-school age, we need a big campaign to immunize thousands of children of the pre-school 4ge. The earlier the children are im- munized the better, as usually. the younger the child the less the reae- tion from the three injections.” The ,average number of cases of diphtheria in Washington each year, he said, was 500, and he suspected that & great number of cases sus- pected to be laryngitis might he bor- dering on diphtheria, or, in fact, be diphtheria. He told of one family ere which had lost three, chilireen ‘what had been diagnosed: as Iaryngitis, and the fourth child, which had a-similar disease, was finaily dis- covered to havé diphtheria, just be- fore it died, the last one in the family. Immunization, Dr. Murphy declared, would protect the child for about 10 wyears, arnd the danger of the disease resulting fatally would hawe been so far reduced by the time the child was 10 years or oldér that the child then would have “comparative safety from the expectation of death.” Shows Decrease in Deaths. The high average fatalities for diphtheria among little children was shown by Dr. Murpby in a: chart of cases in Philadelphia, which he called a typical example of condi- tions generally. There, he reported, the figures showed that during the first year of a child’s life the mortality in diphtheria was 20 per cent. It dropped gradually, he showed, being 16 per cent, at 2 years of age, 13 per cent at 3, about 10 per cent at 4 and 5, a little over 5 per cent at 6, below 5 per cent at 7, a little over 3 per cent at 8, and by 10 vears of age the mortality had dropped to 1 per cent. The most shining example of the eflicacy of immunization, he said, was the City of Auburn, N. Y. which some years ago had a death rate from diphtheria nearly as high as Washington itself. There, he said, they had been immunizing chil- dren until it was estimated that about 90 per cent of the children had received the treatment. Whereas | before there had been about 30 deaths a year, he said the record now showed at ‘uburn that there | had been not a single death for more than four years. Celebrations April 30, Child Health day v day, falls on Sunday, May 1, this vear, will Dbe observed in public cele’ Drations on the previous Saturday, but churches of the city of all denomina- | tions and faiths wiil be asked to pre- sent the importance of child heolth at their Bunday services, both in the Sunday school and church. Formal notice was sent out by Dr. Davis yes- terdsy to all the churches. ? Examinations will be held in ohild hygiere clinics of the city and probably in some schoolhouses on April 30, it was announced hy Dr, Davis. Invilations had been sent out 10 physicians to offer their scrvices in the examinations, he said, and an. swers were expected shortly. ! Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superin.| tendent of schools, offered the co-opera- tion of the school system in picking the children physic fit, known as “gold star” children, for a special demonstration on the Ellipse. Spencer Wise of the dairy division of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association presented the offer from i a1l dairies in the city to carry posters | on their milk wagons during Child | Health week, and a special poster will be prepared by the committee | for this purpose. It was also Tiounced that posters will be liber distributed through the city by street car and window display which | the | By radlo, the message of child health will be carried directly into the homes, Houses For Sale and Ren! J. LEO KoLB MAIN 5027 223 N. V. Av. 1237 Wisc. Av. When you paint WHITE, use Zinc-O-Lith PURE WHITE It Stays White ((\‘. Z En s7¢ iz/c.,.,@. Pres Pashuhing Co 77 !r('//l. -THE. _EVENING THE THRILL THAT COMES ONCE IN A LIFETIME. LET TW' | BALLOTIN WATER TEST, PERCEED! AN AGAN'TES'T ? MAKE SurRe? BLACK BaLL STAR, WASHINGTO Do T FERGIT ONE KEEPS 1M OUT ! 17 1 rid@fd s er WAITIMN G To HEAR THE VERD\CT o MEMBER SHIP I THE . (New York. World) 1927. N YOUR APPLICATION FOoR SECRET SocCiETY under arrangements being made with Stations WRC and WMAL, it was an- nounced, on behalf of the Thirteen Club. Parent-Teachers to Aid. The Parent-Teacher Associations will begin May 1, it was stated, to urge examination of all children in a “preschool round-up” to discover possible defects. Parents will be urged to send their children to the nearest child health center. Details of the program on the El- lipse wilf be worked out by the pro- gram committee, which already has made plans for nine tents, in examinations, both general, and dental, will take place. The) be weighing of children, first aid by boy scouts and other features. ,Arrangements will include generally, participation of both white and colored children under plans of the committee. 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