Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-15

HEALTH AND HYGLENNE
Typhoid, Flies, Mosquitoes, Malaria, Dust
HOW TO GUARD AGAINST DISEASl
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IN THE MODEL HOME

lone red blood cell? At this stage the
cell breaks, the increased number OF
plasmodii are turned loose In the
blood to inhabit as many new cells
| CIT Is just at this stage we have the
child) and the process of blood de-
struction continues. Fifteen out OF
every one hundred thousand deaths
which occur in the south are directly
due to malaria. The number of deaths
| indirectly due to malaria cannot be
| estimated.
For the prevention Of malaria we
must again look to the men in the
family. The anopheles, the malaria
carrying mosquito, lives in the damp
swampy places, pools, puddles.
bitches, canals and othNr bodies of
stagnant or but slowly moving water.
Have your farms properly drained.
If the pools cannot be drained thor
oughly. stock them with fish. Among
the most efficacious are the top min
nows. sun fish and Sticklebacks. Ii
fish cannot be used, then pour lit
tie oil on the troublesome waters, but
| this last must be done at regular In
tervals of not longer than two weeks.
Screen your houses securely. After
| taking these precautions, watch the
number of malarial cases decrease.
Just a word as to how we can dis
tinguish between the innocent culix,
! or house mosquito, and the malaria
carrying anopheles, or swamp mos
quito. The culix hangs with his body
parallel to the wall. while the anopheles
hangs with his body at an angle with
| the wall. This can easily be seen with
| the naked eye.
There is one more house pest which
I want to speak Of this morning. This
pest does not have wings but 1t often
flies, hence the danger to health Thls
time we will have to look to the
women, the really true home makers,
for it's determination. Perhaps you
have already guessed the name Of this
pest-dust. You not only get credit
| for being a poor housekeeper If your
furniture is allowed to become dusty,
but you are a poor housekeeper If the
same dust is there day after day. Re-
member, I said same dust.
You have probably heard your city
| friends talk of sewer gas and how
lit must be guarded against. Well,
| there Is much more danger to health
from dust than from sewer gas. Each
little particle Of dust is an air ship
which is capable of carrying hun
dreds Of passengers, and these pas
sengers are germs Of disease.
The germ of tuberculosis has been
found in active state in the dust OF a
room one year after the death Of It's
occupant from the disease.
Eminent bacteriologists have made
extensive research in the subject OF
transmission of disease germs by dust.
They have found that diphtheria,
pneumonia, erysipelas, epidermis,
cerebro-spinal meningitis, summer
diarrhea of children are without doubt
transmitted by the dust. There are
many others upon which the authori-
ties are divided.
Now, since dust is so full of the
dreaded disease germs, let us consider
how we can get rid Of 1t. In the first
place, don't take broom and stir up
all the dirt in the room and fool your
self by thinking you are cleaning up.
If it is not convenient for you to have
commercial dust down." then de-
wise one of your own. Use damp tea
leaves, damp sand, bits Of wet paper
or just a wet broom. When you go
| to remove the dust. take a damp cloth
and carefully fold the dust under.
Don't use your mothers feather dus-
| ter Put that on your hat. 1t can do
no harm there and this season they
are very stylish. 1 have seen people
dust very carefully with cloth and
then shake all the dust out Of the
cloth into the atmosphere Of the room
again. If you do that you will have
to wipe up the same old dust each
morning.
I cannot close this talk on health
| in the home without making plea
for the health Of the baby. Some OF
you will not believe what 1 am going
TO say, but If I can save the life one
| little one, it Is worth while.
In the spring, when your baby be-
gins to have diarrhea, don't, I beg OF
you, don't blame it on the teeth,
Many a child who might have lived
had he received the proper treatment
| is dead because he was supposed to
be "teething, and the poor innocent
little teeth had nothing to do with
the case. The baby had gotten in
fected somehow-flies on his mouth
while he slept dust off the floor when
| food; but rarely the teeth.
spent a summer at the Mount Will
son sanatorium for children near Bal
timore, where hundreds Of children
are treated every summer. I saw ba-
bies with all kinds Of diarrhea but not
in a single case could it be traced to
teething. I saw one baby that sum-
mer sick from teething, but he did
not have diarrhea.
Pardon my enthusiasm on this sub
ject. but for number of years I have
felt it a shame that the babies of the
south are neglected as they are.