fering
from a communicable disease?

6. What special care should the attendant of a patient with a
communicable disease give to her own clothing and person?

7. Why are the children's diseases more serious in reality than they are
commonly supposed to be?

8. Describe the symptoms of each of the following: Measles, scarlet
fever, chicken-pox, mumps, whooping-cough, and diphtheria.

9. How should bowel and bladder discharges be disinfected?

10. How should dishes and other utensils be disinfected?

11. How should linen be disinfected?

12. Describe measures necessary for concurrent disinfection.

13. Describe measures necessary for terminal disinfection.

FOR FURTHER READING

Preventive Medicine and Hygiene--Rosenau.

The New Public Health--Hill, Chapters VII-XVII.

Essentials of Medicine--Emerson, Chapters XII-XV.

Health and Disease--Roger I. Lee, Chapter X-XIV.

Disease and Its Causes--Councilman, Chapters V-IX.

Publications of the New York State Department of Health, Albany,
entitled: The Teacher and Communicable Disease; A Method for the Control
of Communicable Diseases in Schools; Regulations and Instructions for
Cleansing and Disinfection; The Conduct of an Isolation Period for
Communicable Disease in a Home; Tuberculosis; Typhoid Fever; Scarlet
Fever; Measles; Whooping-cough; Diphtheria; Poliomyelitis, Acute
Anterior (Infantile Paralysis); Smallpox; Septic Sore Throat; Venereal
Diseases. (Any of the above pamphlets will be sent upon receipt of a
three cent stamp.)

CHAPTER XIII

COMMON AILMENTS AND EMERGENCIES

This chapter describes a few home treatments for the relief of slight
ailments and injuries, together with some measures that may be employed
in emergencies. For more extended instructions in these subjects the
student should consult the Red Cross Text-book on First Aid.

CONDITIONS IN WHICH THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IS INVOLVED

HEADACHE.--Headache is not a disease in itself, but a symptom common to
many different disorders. Among the abnormal conditions often causing
headaches are fatigue, eyestrain, indigestion, constipation, neuralgia,
rheumatism, anaemia, acute infections, and other disorders. Treatment
should consist in finding the cause and removing it if possible; clearly
no one remedy can cure so many different causes. A physician should be
consulted if headaches are of frequent occurrence, but in many cases
rest and attention to other hygienic requirements are all t