The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1910-12-23
VALUE OF FRESH AIR.


sioner of Pennsylvania, said the other
day in an address, "Why throw open
| your bedroom windows for the fresh
! night air and then ali the next day
Theoretically seal yourselves up from
the pure sunlit air?' No truer words
were ever spoken. He referred to the
overheating in Winter of houses and
places of business, as is invariably the
case, and the improper methods of
ventilation in vogue. You may get
some fresh air in your system at night
| but if your house or place of business
is overheated and Improperly ventilat-
ed during the day, you thus nulify to
a certain extent the benefit derived by
breathing the pure night air. You
should breathe pure air all the time,
both day and night. 1t is the one
prime requisite to the continued good
health of every person, man, woman
or child. No one can ever get too
much of it, Winter or Summer, but
thousands of people daily get too little
and don't realize it, despite all the
preaching that takes place on the SUBJ
ject.
"Pneumonia is primarily disease
of the colder months of the year. Not
necessarily because the weather is
colder, but from the fact that during
the Winter months people are as a
rule penned up too much and do not
exercise as much discretion in the care
of their body as they should. Some
! people contract pneumonia from lack
of knowledge as to how they should
guard against it. Some contract it
| through pure carelessness, as by get
ting overheated and then becoming
suddenly chilled. Others contract it
and by far the great majority, by liv-
ing under vitiated atmospheric condi-
tions almost constantly. They sleep
in closed rooms at night for fear the
night air will give them cold They
wouldn't have window raised in
their homes during the day for the
same reason, consequently, to them,
fresh air, which is the greatest boon
that has been conferred upon mankind
is an utter stranger except when they
are walking through the streets. In
their places of business the heat is
usually excessive and the lack Of ven-
tilation is noticeable to any one who
ever takes time to make observations.
They wouldn't raise window there
either, and for the self-same reason,
namely, that old bugbear, afraid of
catching cold.' They do not realize
that pneumonia is a contagious dis
ease. That you can catch it just the
same as one does scarlet fever or diph-
liberia, by being with case for time.
Pneumonia thrives in vitiated at
mosphere. 1t loves to Turk in dark,
closed rooms. 1t delights to mingle
with the crowds that gather in places
of amusement or public meetings of
any kind, where the only kind of air
ooe breathes as rule, is the deadly
carbon dioxide thrown of by the
lungs of every individual including
yourself. The germs of pneumonia
hate the sunlight and fresh air, be-
cause in neither can it thrive or do its
deadly work, therefore, if you would
steer clear of this unusually fatal dis
ease, get all the fresh air you can, but
always protect your body.
"Probably the large majority of peo-
pie who travel in or out of town daily
have frequently noted and commented
upon the 'stuffy' condition of trolley
and railroad cars, the former particu-
larly. At certain portions of each day
these cars are invariably crowded with
humanity almost to the bursting point.
They are crowded in like sardines in a
box. About all the fresh air that gets
into the cars is when they stop to let
passengers off or on, when the doors
are opened for very brief interval.
Each one of the mass of human beings
have pair of lungs that must have a
certain amount of fresh air all the time
or they cannot breathe naturally, nor
can their blood get the necessary OK
ygen from the air which it needs to
sustain the body and nourish it. Each
pair of lungs is exhaling with every
exploratory movement certain amount
of carbonic acid, which when concen-
trated is deadly to the human system
Many of the people have what they
call scolds'-that is, catarrhal condi-
tions, aud when these people are
crowded in car with others who are
in normal physical condition, some
of the normal ones are very apt to
later on develop colds also, which
they always attribute to the opening
of door, window, standing in ,
draught; almost anything except the
right cause.