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PIKE COUNTY

Dr. William B. Kenworthey, C. M. I. I wish to report work done in Pike (Jouiity during 1914 as follows; —

The general health of the community was very good throughont the entire year, with the exception of an epidemic of German Measles in Matamoras, which was brought over to us from Port Jervis, New York (directly across the river). There have been very few cases of contagious diseases. The Borough of Matamoras was in Bome trouble with its epidemic owing to the fact that although it had a regularly organized Borough Board of Health, there was no health physician, there being no physician resident in the Borough.

The Secretary of the Matamoras Board of Health notified me of the fact that there were a number of cases of contagious diseases ac- companied by a rash among the school children, several of whom had been attended by physicians from Port Jervis, N. Y., and quite a few cases had no physicians at all. Inasmuch as the Port Jervis physi- cians had not reported any cases to the Matamoras Board of Health, and the diseases seemed to be spreading from day to day, be asked me to come up and make an inspection, which I accordingly did, and found quite a number of cases of German Measles. From the fact that several of the children had only been ill a few days and then returned to school — in some instances in less than a week — practi- cally every child in the entire school had been exposed. I, therefore, directed the President of the School Board to close the school, keep it closed for two weeks, and have it properly fumigated before being reopened, which was done.

The only other case of any considerable importance was a case of smallpox in Bloomingrove Township in September. A Mrs. John v., who had been visiting her sister who lives in Scranton, developed smallpox ten days after returning to her home in Bloomingrove Township. The case was exceedingly mild in character, although typical smallpox. The history of this case is quite interesting from the fact that she was the only member of her own immediate family who had never been vaccinated. Her two children had, of course, been vaccinated within the last few years in order to be admitted to school; her husband had been vaccinated eight or ten years ago; she "did not believe in vaccination" and therefore suffered the conse- quences. The house was placed under absolute quarantine and there were no other cases.

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THE NINTH ANNUAL REPORT
COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
1914
PARTI
HARRISBURQ, PA,:
WM. STANLEY RAT. STATE PRINTER