The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1905-08-25
AN ADDRESS
BY DR.. PORTER.
STATE HEALTH OFFICER GIVES
SOME GoOE POINTS ON
PREVENTION OF DISEASE
The IL The Time OF The Year when
Everyone should be Careful ms the
Public Health.
To Property Owners, Householder
and all citizens OF Florida;

period Of the year when through
atmospheric changes and eleyeted
temperature, fermentation and putre-
faction occurs rapidly, and is likely to
produce sickness of many kinds. It
should therefore be the care of all
householders 10 keep their premises
clean and clear of any Preventative
trash and filth. House wives should
pay careful attention to the sanitation
of both the inside and outside OF their
homes Clearly premises are as essen
tial TO health as personal hygienic
measures. Ventilation and sunlight
are natures healthufl aids, and cur
rent Of fresh air with sun light reduce
the transmission of infection. Daily
or by daily bathing OF the body not
only conduces to comfort but re-
moves effete particles from the skin
which are cast off from the body
through the medium OF perspiration
and which should not be allowed to
accumulate and saturate undercloth-
ing. This latter should be frequently
changed if good health is desired,
especially by those persons who exer-
else violently or work and who pers-
pire freely.
House wives should not content
themselves with busting and with
clean floors. Water closets should be
looked after and kept disinfected.
Clothes closets should be aired and
kept free from trash, and articles
which may harbor insect life,
The family refrigerator should be
particularly looked after. To keep this
article of butler pantry perfectly
clean and sweet should be the first
care Of all good house wives and house
keepers, for it can easily become foul
and be menace to both the Older as
the younger members of the family
through ptomaine ABSORPTION and
poisoning. Mothers especially should
give the refrigerator the greatest at
tention, and should prohibit the keep
ing Of fish, fruit vegetables, Meat
and milk in the same compartment.
Milk easily absorbs odors and faint
from eatables which may be in the
same space, and therefore should be
kept to itself in tightly closed rubber
basket bottles or vessels and on the
ice. Unless COWS milkis certified to
for purity by city inspector or labor
atory examination, or is produced on
a farm under the immediate super
vision Of the owner, il lie safer to the
health Of the child as far as infant
feeding is concerned, not to use cows
milk at all. Condensed milk which
must be sterilized to aqu!re its prepa-
ration for canning, is far safer arti-
Gle o. food for bottle fed babies, and as
condensed milk is graded in fats and
sugar IL is very easy to find out which
particular brand will agree with the
baby.
Fruits when naturally ripe and
sound are healthful in summer, there
are but few fruits which disagree
with the digestive organ Of the adult
human or child when ripe; occasional
idiosyncrasies are met with, and in
such cases persons will do well to
shun those articles whether OF fruit,
fish. meat or vegetables which taxes
the digestive organs beyond their
natural capasity to beautifully assim-
ilate.
Do not over eat. Nature provides
succulent plants and fruits in summer
because there is not that need or
demand for stronger diet as there is
In the colder season OF the year when
the heat producing functions OF the
bodv must be stimulated. Fruits and
vegetables will assist nature in keep
ing the bowel of function in good work.
ing order and in healthful condition.
thus sparing the individual from re-
sorting TO frequent purRation and
many patent nostrums, which always
leave the system in worse condition
than before taking
It IA no longer theory or fad"
of some "crank'' doctors, that certain
mosquitoes carry disease, by acting as
intermediary hosts, to the human be-
inc. Mosquitoes OF the genus Ano-
nhelea (which means vagran or WORTH
lassl do convey when injected, the
malarIal parasite to the human. This
has been proven beyond any shadow
81 doubt, as has also the fact that
he steeomyia genus Of mosquito con-
reys when infected the germ-pernnps
nnraelte-of yellow fever in the SAME
'sav deneoe Is thought to be conveyed
bv the nenus Fatiaans, and y has NOS
As We, been determined how many
more o. these same kinds and de'erlp'