Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-01-20
HEALT TIL WARNINGS
ISSUED FOR HOMES
commissioners SAY THAT OVER
HEATED AND DRY ROOMS
ARE INJURIOUS.
PANS OF WATER ABOUT THE
HOUSE EFFECTIVE IN MAIN
TANNING MOISTURE.

This is the time of the year when
householders must use care in keep
ing their homes in a healthful condi-
ton according to warnings sounded
by health officers of various cities.
Overheated, dry rooms cause more
diseases than the average individual
would imagine. But with the mer-
curry in the thermometer tube SO low
that it appeared to- have shrunk back
into the bulb, a sermon on over
heated rooms may seem incongru-
GUS. Yet the conditions against which
health commissioners preach arise
more often during the coolest weather
than during any other period of the
year. When cold snap comes Mr..
Householder is up early in the morn
ing to shake his furnace.
Forget About the Summer.
The furnace is kept humping" all
day long to maintain a temperature OF
~ degrees, or even more in all of the
living rooms. If the temperature drops
a degree or two below the prescribed
level, some one goes downstairs and
shakes the furnace again.
Mr.. Householder his wife and all of
his family believe they would ''catch
their deaths of cold if their vigi-
lance over the furnace were relaxed a
trif1e, and the temperature dropped
few degrees. They forget that a tenn
perature as low as so degrees is COM
Portable on summer nights. All
their efforts are directed towards
keeping the heat of the rooms up to
the required high level. No thought
is paid to the fact that all of the heat
coming up through the registers is
drying out the house as we'll as heat
ing it.
Pans of water should be kept filled
in various parts of the house. The
evaporation of the water will keep
the humidity of the rooms at point
which not only will be more healthful
| to the people in the house, but will
save coal bills The temperature can
be controlled more easily with the
proper amount of moisture in the all
than when all of the moisture has
been dissipated.
Harmful to Complexion.
Nine. Branche Marchesi, the prima
donna who sang at the Alhambra
theater in Milwaukee on Monday
night, believes that overheated, dry
rooms are the cause of poor complex
ions in America.
DR.. 0ading, health commissioner Of
| Milwaukee, affirms the statement o.
Nine Marchesi that dry, hot rooms are
bad for the skin. He adds that such
conditions not only affect the skin, but
the mucous membrane of the eyes
nose and throat as we'll Conjunc
tivitis and other catarrhal diseases
are due in large part to the same con
ditions.
Pneumonia, consumption and other
| diseases of the lungs find their great
est opportunities among people who
| live in overheated rooms from which
all moisture has been driven. Ec-
zema and kindred diseases of the
skin delight in the same conditions.
So Mr. Householder. when he is
| shoveling coal into the furnace and
choking the fire, should remember
that he not only is dissipating the
moisture of his home, but of all of
the members of the family. Pans OF
water can be concealed in various
places about the house to evaporate
and replace the moisture that is
taken away.
His wife and daughter will look
much better and will be much happier.
He, himself, will reap also the bene-
fit of the increased humidity. There
will be less need of the family physi-
cian--if he remembers-to use lit
tie precaution.