The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-12
VOX POPULI.
BREAD, MEAT AND
TUBERCULOSIS.

TUBERCULOSIS.
| Editor Pensacola Journal:
Should the prize winner in the pre-
I Varicator's class make asseveration
| that the most advertised affair of the
/ moment is tuberculosis-its proven
| ton and cure, he would not be dis
| puted-nOt in Pensacola. Many of our
| tossiliZed conceptions of the correct
/ way 20 live have received a severe
{ jolt through the knowledge dissent
| mated by the recent exhibition con-
| Quoted by the National Association
! for the Study and Prevention of Tu-
| beFculosis.
{ In the good old ''uster-was times"
we called it by the homely name, con-
sumption, and attempted to flood 1t
out of our systems by Bluffy's Malt
Extract with pronounced benefit-tO
tho manufacturers of the said
| Bluffy's). When We desired to i'm
press our interiors with our mastery
of verbiage we spoke of it as
'Phthisis" and recommended Gee-ru-
na-particuIarIy to residents of dry
counties.
Henceforth the creature with the
emaciated figure, hectic cough and
coUntenance like that of a machinist
out Of a job is to be known as a vic
tim of tuberculosis and his cure Will
be effected by pure food and pure air.
How simpIei Simple? Well, let US
see.
AS for pure air, that's plentiful
enough in this particular portion OF
the sphere (Tarragona and all other
city streets excepted), but as for pure
food, The U. S. pure food law to
the contrary. notwithstanding. there Is
no single article of food pure-nOt
even clean in the ordinary sense, and
TO cite one example, bread.
Our bakeries are conducted after
fashion dictated by their owners
sweet Will and the delivery OF the
product is made in the same manner.
Note the open wagons exposed to the
clouds OF germ impTegnated dust and
receiving a caress from the Odori-
ferrous body of the Ethiopian driver
with each bump-it-ty-b bump and con-
slider the handling it receives from
the same black buck who loads it III
after his stable operations without
first going through a soap andwater
OperatiOn-and did you ever see d
clean stable? Bread again has
chance to absorb some of our delight
ful dust and f,l H isl af6ar .;5sdH9
during the time it reposes upon the
window sill, chair or porch floor ere
it reaches the table.
You've bitten grit in this manner,
haven't you? Well, where there's grit
there must be germs-tuberc-e etc.
germs.
1t would be positively ScandalOuS TO
adorn our porch with d neat metal
box to receive the loaf. but it might
be better than long, black box de-
posted in the front room for the re-
ception of our own body while crepe
and flowers tell the tale.
Another prolific source of infection !
is the mart of the slicer of mutton
and WeighGT of SiTlOin- Ever notice
the sanguinOus market man hurI a |
steak upon the marble slab, forgetting |
to notify the colony Of flies. then sell |
ing you the steak, together with the /
hieS for good measure and and tu- /
berculosis? Mayhap it is loaf or 4
bread you want and the same jug6IeT 4
of the cleaveT lets go Of the hunk of /
liver and grips a loaf, leaving two or 4
more BertilliOn symbols on its pris- |
tine puTIty-dirt, filth, germsI-tu- !
beEcUlosIsI, Were you ever in the /
rear of a local market? Whether il /
is true or not, that we mortalS are
made of the dust Of the earth" We
Of Pensacola are everlaStingly having
dust incorporated into our corporoSi-
ties fast enough, TO large extent by
the lax manner in which our bread
and meat is handled. Personal clean
illness is the watchword of the COM
health and the death-word OF
tubeTculOsis-let'S clean up.
S. u. BENNETT, JR.