The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-25

which may find Judgment therein and
thus promote the spread of the disease.
Therefore strict cleanliness of prem
ises, inside and out, should be main
tanned, together with thorough ventila
ton. The necessity for this cannot be
overestimated. The oxygen Of the
air is not only Of vital Importance in
maintaining the healthy functions of
the body, enabling it TO resist disea 80,
but also it is natures greatest disin-
fectant, and when freely admitted to
living rooms. exercises potent de-
structiVe influence on any disease
germs which may be present.
Most contagious diseases flourish
more extensively during the cold sea-
son, because Of the indoor life. It
would seem more economical to pay
larger coal bills and maintain pure air
/ by causing il TO constantly enter from
the outside and replace the poisonous
Tebreathed atmosphere. than to pay
doctors bills and the other costs of i'm
paired health or energy, resulting from
carefully excluding it, and yet many
people do not seem to realize this. It
has been determined by sanitary
science that the minimum amount of
fresh air which should be furnished in
an inhabited room is 5000 cubic feet
/ per hour for each adult. and 1000 cubic
/ feet for each child. These are consid-
cred TO be the least amounts required
in order to maintain the best condi-
tiOn Of health, and any material de-
/ crease will result in its impairment.
BY calculating the cubic space in a
room II is easy to ascertain the num-
Der of times the air must be changed
hourly to maintain the standard, re-
membering that by means of the best
| system of natural ventilation it is i'm
I possible to effect more than three
complete changes of atmosphere per
hour. A simple but reliable test for
determining the presence or absence of
sufficiently air in a room is the i'm
! preston received upon coming in from.
+ out doors. If there is a sense of close
ness, a very injurious degree of i'm
/ purity exists.
/ The evils of bad ventilation and
/ other unsanitary conditions fall most
/ heavily upon the tender bodies of chill
/ dren who, as result of tightly closed
| living and sleeping rooms, become pale
/ and sickly and are ready victims 80
/ lurking disease pOisons. 1t is a crime
I for parents to permit such conditions
/ as are frequently found. In a land
/ where soap is cheap and water plenu-
/ full, the existence Of filthy, ill-smelling,
/ badly ventilated living rooms are IL
! eXcusable. And vet many children are
/ compelled to live in them and from
/ them too often must go into over
/ crowded school rooms, where again
| they are robbed Of what was intended
| by the Almighty to be a free and in
/ alienable right-pure air. What Won
4 der that they become a prey to disease,
/ or at least develop weakly bodies and
minds?
A word in closing, on the subject IF
! schools. The recent inspection If
school premises throughout the state.
/ directed by the state board of health,
discloses many instances Of very
/ faulty sanitation, the most general #
/ which is seriously inadequate ventila-
I ton 1t is the duty of local boards of
health to take up the matter and
earnestly endeavOr to eradicate the
evils.
"A vast amount of good along these
/ lines may be accomplished by teachers.
They should be guardians of the
health of those placed in their charge.
1t is gratifying 20 know that 50 many
of them are alive to this. The best
use should be made of poor facilities
/ Cor ventilation. School rooms should
| be flushed with fresh air during inter-
missions by throwing open windows
and doors. The first signs of con-
: tagiOus disease should be carefully
watched for, and upon the least sus-
picion the child sent home and kept
/ there until the symptoms may have
/ time to develop. No child should De
/ allowed to use any pencil or other
oil L.. = -
/ belonging to another child, and n
/ places where these articles are fur
nished by the school authorities. for
promiseuous daily distribution, the per
niciOus custom should be abolished.
/ Too much stress cannot be laid upon
! the Importance of this. Unclean, dusty
/ floors harbOr disease germs and are
/ very common carriers of contagion.
/ For the purpose of disinfectiOn. they
| should be frequently wet down." pre-
/ liminary to sweeping, with sawdust
/ saturated with a solution Of chloride
/ of lime Of a strength of six ounces to
| one gallon, or bichlOride of mercury
/ one part in 500 of water. Many Of
/ the schools in the state have been dis
/ infected in connection with the inspec-
I tion above referred to, but it is advis-
/ able where cOntag ious diseases are
! prevailing, to again scrub the floors
/ with one Of the solutions mentioned.
/ The floors Of school rooms should be
! scrubbed frequently as a sanitary
/ measure, and as the disinfectants are
/ inexpensive. they might with propriety
] be used each time.
/ For a description Of the early symp-
/ toms of contagious disease and details
l of preventive measures, teachers are
/ referred TO a circular being issued by
the state board Of health