Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1897-10-21
80 Years of Cures.
e air, uncontaminated by man or

pure air, uncontaminated by man or
beast.
In our Southern towns, owing to
the fact that our rooms are larger, as
rule, than in colder climates, and
to the further facts that our houses
are generally more or less carelessly
built and therefore full of cracks; and
that our usual method of heating is
the open fire place or CRATE which Is
most excellent ventilator, we do
not suffer SO much from impure air.
And this doubtless is the reason that
consumption is so much less common
with us than with our Northern
neighbors who live in right warm
houses heated by stoves generally.
It is sad fact that, right here in
our beautiful climate consumption is
playing havoc with our CO! !ored peo-
ple-the death rate alEong them
from that disease being now more
than 3 to l among the whites, and it
is also true that when one is attacked
they die much more quickly than the
whites Although the conditions IN
cidental to ignorance and poverty,
general uncleanliness and the want
of proper food and care are largely
responsible for this, there is no doubt
in my mind that they are rendered
more susceptible to infection and less
resistant to the disease by breathing
the impure air caused by overcrowd-
ing and to habit they have of sleep
ing with their heads covered up. 1t
is, however, not alone III such pro-
nounced and tangible cases as these
first cited that vitiated air-vitiated
chiefly by the exhalations from hu-
man beings-gets in it's deadly work.
It is in far more subtle and, there
fore, dangerous way, because it is
generally overlooked, that this slow
poison operates. It is by a gradual
sapping of the vitality which renders
the individual an easy prey to any
| disease that may come along. This is
particularly the case in children.
During the period of growth the vital
processes are much more active than
after maturity, for the simple reason
that not only must all the ordinary
running expenses of the system, SO
to speak, be paid, but large addi-
ton must be made to the surplus
fund. In Prof Woodbridge's illustra-
|
member that it's best work depends
upon three things; strong draught,
an abundant supply of oxygen, or
in other words plenty of fresh,
pure air containing its full quota OF
oxygen; good stoking exercise; and
sufficiency of fuel of frst-rate quail
ity good food. In this favored
land of ours there are not many
children who fail to get plenty of
food, of fair quality at any rate, and
a mere allusion to their incessant ac-
tivity shows them to be excellent
stokers, but the draught is not free
in far too many instances, and, in con
sequence their vital fires burn low
and there is a lack of power to prop
erly propel their machinery OF life,
In my own special line of profession
al work I often see the most striking
illustrations of the bad effects upon
the system of an insuficiency OF air.
A child comes in. and as soon as my
glance falls on his pale face, his lack
lustre eye, his open mouth and stu
pid expression, [ am prepared to
hear from his mother that he is not
thrifty, that he snores at night and
assumes in his restless sleep all sorts
of bizarre positions-in order to
breathe better-and am morally GER
tain that he is victim of what we
call adenoid vegetation. These are
enlargements in the upper part OF
the throat analogous to the ordinary
enlargement of the tonsils which
block up the nostrils at the back enc