SUGGESTIONS OF MEASURES CALCULATED TO ELIMINATE DIPHTHERIA AND ITS DANGERS
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Teaching children to have their throats examined when they are well, and the examination of the throat whenever a child is not well.
Call a doctor immediately when a child has a sore throat, swelling of the neck, or any croupy condition with hoarseness.
Taking cultures at the first visit of the doctor.
Giving antitoxin at once whenever there is any exudate in the throat or any condition resembling diphtheria.
Protection of children with antitoxin when they are intimately associated with others who have diphtheria.
Immunization of all children over six months of age with toxin-antitoxin.
Pasteurization or heating of all milk used by children.