Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

worker is liable to various poisonings.
and the miner TO tunnel worm or kidney disease.
It is therefore a comfort to find that there are
certain occupations which are healthy, and a few
which actually tend to prolong life.
Oddly enough, these are just, the ones which
the ordinary person would imagine to have the
exactly opposite effect. Printing Is an instance
Seeing that a printer usually works in an atmos-
phere which is none too fresh that a lot of dust
rises from the type metal, and that hestoops over
his work in somewhat back-breaking position,
it would be imagined that printing was not
healthy Job. Yet it is a fact well proved that
no class of workers are so free from infectious
diseases as are printers.
When yellow fever ravaged the Southern part
of this country few years ago, not single print
er was among the victims; and again, when cho
era decimated Chill, killing rich and poor alike
out of the 10 members of the Typographical
Union of Valparaiso none struck down by
the deadly disease.
NO MICROBES IN SEWERS.
There are probably very few persons who have
ever been down into a sewer. The general idea
is that sewer is dark and filthy tunnel, reek-
ING with terrible odors, and swarmlng with reNeh
ous rats A mistake altogether! The odor Is by
no means offensive, and though rats exist tney
are anything but ferocous.
Stranger
may be the chemicals that are run into sewers,
hut the fact remains that the sewerlnan runs lar
less risk of infection that you or l do.
Accidents are nfrequent in the sewers, and
statistics show that the sewermans life Is dis
tnctlv longer than that of other laborers employ
ed by city corporations.
When influenza of the worst type was raging
all over England about twelve years ago. and
people of all classes were suffering it was noticed
that men who work in very high temperatures
inst those who one would have imagined would
suffer most severey-were absolutely exempt
The Armstrong Works at Elswick were almost
forced to close owing to the hundred of their
staff who were down with the disease. Yet
among these was not one single puddler.
DRY HEAT is HEALTHY.
It is another of the seeming contradictions of
medical science that men who forced to en-
dure for many hours at a time the most terrific
heat. are, as a whole, a very healthy lot. They
seldom catch cold, and do not often suffer from
rheumatism similar complaints. The reason
seems to be that they working in perfectly
dry air, with the result that they perspire pro-
fuselv. 1t is damp heat that is dangerous. Pud.
ding is one Of the healthest OF industries.
In the past few years. since electrical industries
have increased so enormously, it has been OBJ
served that men employed in electrical works en-
Joy, upon the whole remarkably good health and
are marvelousy free from consumption bron-
chitis and similar chest and throat ailments. No
doubt this is due to the fact that the electricity
discharged into the atmosphere turns the oxygen
into ozone. Ozone is the agent which makes sea
air so heathfu. It is strong disinfectant and
germ killer and that is why the electrical indus
tries must be cassed among prolongers of life.
Men who work in the cold storage cellars where
the temperature averages twelve degrees below
freezing point all the year round are also a very
strong and healthy lot, doubt owing to the
cold killing all germs in the air which they
breathe.