The De Soto County news. [volume] (Arcadia, Fla.) 1898-1924, 1905-08-25
AN ADDRESS
BY DR.. PORTER.
STATE HEALTH OFFICER GIVES
SOME GooE FONTS ON
PREVENTION OF DISEASE
This IL The Time OF The Year when
Everyone should be Careful as the
Public Health.

The summer months embrace a
period OF the year when through
atmospheric changes and eleveted
temperature, fermentation and putre-
faction occurs rapidly, snd is likely to
produce sickness of many kinds. 1t
should therefore be the care OF all
householder TO 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 affete 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 il 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 Dish, fruit vegetables, Meat
and milk ia the same compartment.
Milk easily absorbs odors and faint
from eatahles 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
70. .,.,t.adfafa
vision of the owner, it is 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 it 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
idiosynerasies are met with, and in
such cases persons will do we'll 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
body 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 purgation and
many patent nostrums, which always
leave the system in worse condition
than before taking
Il is no longer theory or fad"
I OF some crank" doctors, that certain
mosquitoes carry disease, by acting as
intermediary hosts, 20 the human be-
ing. Mosquitoes OF the genus Ano-
pheles (Which means vagran or worth
less) do convey when infected, the
malarial parasite 70 the human. This
has been proven beyond any shadow
Of q doubt, aa has also the fact that
the steeomyia genus ofmosqulto con
veys when injected the germ-perhaps
paraeitc-of yellow fever in the same
way denenc IL thought to be conveyed
hy the genus Fatlgans and u has not
a. yet been determined how many
more Of these same kinds and deseFip-