The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-24
FRESH AIR AND CONSUMPTION.

Fresh air and good nourishing food
are acknowledged by al modern ply
sicians and scientists TO be the most
efficient preventives as well as the
best aids TO the cure of tuberculosis.
The crusade which is being joined in
By health officers and public-minded
citizens all over the country and the
civilized world is certain TO result in
much good because it is directed on
the lines indicated in this statement
As In the case OF all propaganda
which become popular erusades, there
is some danger in this very matter
of the cure of consumption of going
too far in the application of a system
of treatment or the use OF nostrums
However. while the sanitarians are
insisting on fresh air and are pitch
ing camps and building sanitoria, the
doctors are discovering new remedies
Health Commissioner Dixon OF
Philadelphia in a recent address cali
ed attention TO some of the inconsist-
\ encies OF the advocates and practi-
& tioners of the out-of-door sleeping fad
and pointed out that many persons
who pass their DAYS in superheated
offices and stores may do themselves
Z irreparable injury b. sleeping in the
open air when the weather is as in
& clement as it is in our northern
climate Among other things, he
said:
WHY throw open your bedroom
windows for the fresh air, and then
all next day Theoretically seal your
ofTice from the pure sunlit air?
IF ne go into The Office of busi-
ness man IN a great city on win
ter's day, how DO we find him treat
ing this angle Of health. fresh air? Is
lie inviting II in and making it vel
come. or is he doing his best TO dis
courage lis adyance2
Shut up in an air tight box, her
meticaI1y sealed with weather strips
with the mercury soaring toward the
50 degree marx, We look in vain for
an aperture intended for the admission
! of outdoor air or for the exit OF that
which has been breathed OYER and
over again b. any number Of persons
during the greater part Of day"
All this is interesting, instructive
and timely. Those who are inclined
to overvork the fresh ali
/, fad should bear in mind thai
!, IN order 10 receive benefit
: from such q system Of treatment tl1e
body should first be Injured 70 hard
ship and the daily life 80 regulated q:
10 avoid sudden and yioIent change:
E in temperature and the body strength
r ened BIZ proper nourishment to for
e tify it 10 stand exposure
The commissioner advocates the in
9 direct system Of heating and ventila
ton with pipes in the basement Of !
building over which pure air from IN
outside flows into the rooms, az fl
; the new Washington gchooI builGini
{ in this city, instead u the direc
e system 20 generally used and which
g he SAYS Is an efficient distributor .
disease germs. II would be q zoo.
thing to take up along Ti.h ofbe
x methods being pursued IL The agh
lie against consumption the matter o
r strlcter supervision Of buildings 81
at that proper sanitary methodz may b
RI enforced in the matter II heating an.
e- ventilation, especially IN al large Il
" adjustments where large numbers Q
ne persons are herded together durln
I'D working hours.
ne Commissioner Dixon's advice "a I
,r- the preparation and uge of Drope
Se food also is excellent. The denar
ment q health of Pennsylyania /