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The disease appears in fourteen days after ex- 

 posure. The patient is infectious from the time 

 the disease begins until the scaling and eruption 

 disappear. 



As a usual thing, no medical advice is needed. 

 Good nursing is enough, and the best thing. The 

 patient in bed. A warm room, well ventilated. 

 Absolutely no exposure to taking cold. Liquid or 

 semi-liquid food. 



But in severe cases it is wise to consult a phy- 

 sician. 



The mortality from measles is considerable 

 about 13,000 deaths annually in the United States. 

 At this rate, in the whole world the number would 

 be about 240,000. 



Yet this disease is preventable. By rigid quar- 

 antine of every individual case all epidemics could 

 be prevented, and the disease finally stamped out. 

 It would seem that the yearly saving the lives of 

 240,000 persons, though mostly children, should be 

 a sufficient inducement to warrant the quarantine. 



