The Russellville Democrat., 1883-09-13
Hygiene of the schoolroom.

1 aumlraDle address delivered Dy U. w. Pruitt, NJ. D., of Russellville, be- fore the Normal Institute of the 9th i ijudicial district held Tn this place in July. Read it:
 Now comes the questica nat are we to do Tn thls age with the light we have upon the subject of Medical Hygiene, to give or main tain the highest condition of health, both national and individual, under the circumstances of modern life? Mankind must live together in towns and cities to secure the highest at tainable results. To do this with safety, they must provide against the evils that exist Tn nature, quite irrespective of the agency of man, and they must learn to avoid those dangers due to population. Some of the fairest portions of the earth are rendered unsafe for the habitation of man, by subtitle diffusive poisons called MALARIA, which turks unseen in the midst of luxuriant vegetation, fruits and flowers.
 Any place may be rendered unfit for human occupancy, by mans own neglect to provide against the evils engendered by his own presence. It is of the last importance to provide against these. Among the precau- tions required, we will indicate the following: To talxe care thoroughly, and frequently to remove all accu- mutations of offending and decom- posing vegetable and animal matter, in and about our dwellings. To dis. infect the cellars and out-buildings. To secure proper ventilation and drainage The house should be we'll furnished with means for sup plying pure air. The rooms should be light and airy, and each room so arranged that the direct rays of the sun could shine into it quite ire. quently. The beds should occupy the middle or center of the room, at night, with plenty of good fresh air. Bed rooms should never be below the second story if it can be avoided. Old people should not sleep with young ones, nor occupy the same sleeping room with them. Children need more sleep than grown people. The food should be good, wholesome and we'll cooked, and consist of vari- ety, both animal and vegetable, and taken at intervals by those who work at manual labor, about three times per day-twice per day will be quite sufficient for those engaged in seden- tary, and similar pursuits, and noth- ing should be taken between meals, in health. Pure water in abundance is always admissible to be drank in moderation, or freely used to cleanse the person, and surroundings Drinks~of all kinds, for well persons, should be taken with the meals, and very sparingly at other times. Tea, coffee and chocolate, are regarded as healthy and nourishing used in mod cration, but all alcoholic stimulants, Tn state of health, should be utter. ly ignored, as they are highly detrl- mental to the same.
 Work, or exercise of some kind, is as necessary to physical and mental health as food. Our dress should be suited to climate, temperature, and physical condition. It should be SC constructed as to protect the body from the surrounding atmospheric conditions and influences. At the same time it should be 80 worn as not to interrupt the natural physio logical actions of the body, or limbs And to crown the whole, our conduct toward our fellow men, and our Gre ator, should be exempiified in these talismanic words: "Friendship, Love and Truth" The failure to prac tice what these words contain, has brought many a stalwart persor down to sick couch.
 The well worn adage, "An ounce of prevention is worth pound o cure" has been too much overlook ed. Tine pound of cure has failed tt produce favorable results. Coco men and women have been thus sacrificed to gross negligence ant carelessness, upon the part of house keepers and health authorities. Th' utmost vigilance is necessary in al these respects, and It is an encour aging sign of the times that atten tion is directed so generally to thi' subject.
 In conclusion, allow me to say, al frettlng and worrying is especial, to be avoided, but instead thereof cultivate happy and contented dis position keep the head cool ant LEVEL, the feet warm, and above all heart and conscience void of Of fence towards God and man; witt such helps we may reasonably ex pect to live out our three score year and ten.