Doctors Still Caution Of Danger of Mumps

Local doctors still refused to belittle the sterility threat even though mumps cases seemed to be on the decline.

Yesterday for the second day in a row, no new cases reported to Stillman to join the seven already confined there, but doctors, taking no chances, warned all University men to get off their feet as soon as possible if they suspected they had mumps.

Andrew W. Contratto, physician at the Hygiene Department, pointed out that chances for sterility increase every minute a mumps patient is on his feet. He said he could not remember a University student ever suffering impotency from mumps, but added that the possibility existed even when the best hospital care is taken.

"This thing can be painful if you give mumps a chance to descend," Robert H. Hamlin, Legal Medicine instructor, said.