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Since many of you offered-and gave -help to Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., you will be happy to know that the city's epidemic has been checked. With only 13 new cases reported during the past month, the total number under daily treatment has been reduced...
Entertainment Tax. In Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Salesman Edward Cerftin paid the manager of a restaurant $1.10 to keep the jukebox quiet during his lunch...
...school kids in the Ontario city of Sault Ste. Marie (pop. 32,000) were having their heads examined last week. And with good reason: the Soo had been hit by a raging epidemic of tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp). Of 5,712 elementary schoolchildren, 1,300 had ringworm; so had 150 preschool moppets and 64 youths and adults. On streets and playgrounds, every bobbing head was topped with a white cotton skullcap, compulsory for schoolchildren, strongly recommended for all others. It was the severest ringworm epidemic ever recorded in Canada...
Pesky Problem. The source of Sault Ste. Marie's epidemic was plain. Last March five youngsters with ringworm were allowed back in school too soon after routine treatment by their family doctors. All summer the disease spread (encouraged by a long damp spell and barbers' unsterilized clippers). Not until school opened did authorities realize how far it had got out of hand...
JAMES ROBERTSON Sault Sainte Marie, Mich...