Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1904-02-06
plants which is able to effect such
wonderful changes as this.

wonderful changes as LnlS.
There are many species of these
bacteria, some deadly, some injurious,
some beneficial, diptheria, typhoid
fever, lock jaw, consumption and
grippe, as well as many other lesser
forms of disease are due to these bac-
terial organisms. They get access to
the system and there find condisions
suitable to their development.
If the system is run down and
weakened they find easy access and
disease is the result. If, on the other
hand, the system is strong it may be
able to resist their development.
This shows us how careful we should
be in the preparation of food and the
sanitation of our homes, in order to
keep the body healthy and strong.
Milk is one Of the greatest disease
conveyers known. One reason for
this is that milk so readily absorbs
impurities and then it forms so suit
able medium for bacterial cultures
and growth. One of the too frequent
illustrations of this is of the milk
man who rinsed his cans with water
from an infected we'll and thus gave
deadly typhoid to 80 persons in one
village,
Germ life will develope most rapid
ly under warm temperatures and in
most impure atmosphere, and with
disease germs, increse is most rapid
away from sun light while 1t is almost
impossible to destroy them with any
degree of frost,
We have seen diseases which have
been prevelaut during the warm
months die out as the cold weather
came on, but how often have they
broken out with renewed vigor after
a Jan. or Feb, thaw, providing the
germ has not been killed but merely
kept in check by the frost. In order
to keep our house clean end free from
germs of disease it is necessary to
look after them from cellar to garnet.
While the care of the cellar and
lower PORTIONS of the house is essent-
ial, the care of the sleeping room is
vital. Nothing has SO great an
an effect upon the health of a grow
ing child as the air which it breaths
ct night. It is said that a room 20
feet wide and 10 feet high contains
vitalized air enough for one person
one hour. Not that one could not
exist for a much longer time, but
after the first life is gene the dregs
greatly depress the life of the persons
breathingit.
What then of the average sleeping
room of MINI. for the eight or nine
hours iduring which it is occupied.
There is usually no provision made
for fresh ingress of air during the
night nor is it often possible to flush
the room in the morning flooding it
with pure air, on account of the i'll
constructed storm sash aud the mis-
taken economy that seeks to scono-
mize fuel at the expense of vigor in
human life.
Sunlight and fresh air should be
admitted = freely during the day.
There should be free current of air
during the night, not draught.
This may be accomplished by raising
the lower sash during the night about
four inches, then fitting board be-
meath the SASH The air rises be-
tween the overlapping sashes causing
circulation and no draught. When
sickness has been in the home extra
precaution should be taken. not, as is
usual, to more carefully exclude the
air but rather to seek to admit it |
the mole copiously as very often the
hope, of recovery is directly depend
ent upon the stimulus of this fresh |
air. One must always use great care
during times of sickness that the
germs do not cause further mischief
these germs have great tenacity of |
life. We have seen that it is I'M
possible to destroy them by freezing.
In order to prove this, an experiment
was tried in the case of consumptive
patient. Six months after the patient
had died, some of the dried expector-
alton was taken from the wall of the
room and culture made of it, and
that is it was put under favorable
conditions, to see if the germ of the
disease would develope, which it did, /