The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-02-16
Owing to Present Weather
Conditions, the Danger
I Is Very Great. ; u
A LIST OF PRECAUTIONS
WAYNE COUNTY PEOPLE SHOULD
NOT EAT VERY MUCH, AVOID
ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND KEEP
THE FEET DRY.

This is the pneumonia ana grippe
season. The rise in the temperature
yesterday melted the snow and many
who had occasion to use the streets
went home with wet feet. Almost
similar were conditions this morning
when about 1880 o'clock it began
showing after hard rain. making it
very wet under foot.
Wet feet and over eating are first
aids to pneumonia and grippe.
During the winter, there have been
a large number of deaths from pneu-
monia, and grippe has been indirectly
responsible for some.
Pneumonia is a parasitical disease.
The particular bacilli that cause it are
known to medicine as diplococci, be-
cause they always travel in pairs.
Generally they are transmitted from
the sputum of victim to the well
person, and because of this it is of
the highest importance that the spu-
tum should be confined to vessels
which may be emptied into boiling
water. Heat alone will kill them.
May be Caught Anywhere.
1t is recognized fact. physicians
say. that the disease may be contract
ed anywhere by persons who move
outside their own homes. The only
protection of the individual lies in
the power of resistance which his
constitution may show to the disease.
Persons who are in perfect health are
more likely to be immune to the pneu-
mOnia becilli than the man whose
system has become run down." By
the same course of reasoning it may
be said that the person whose general
condition Is good more easily throws
off the disease after it has been &C.
quired than the person whose physi-
cal power of resistance is weak.
While the cold and damp months
constitute what is known as the
pneumonia season. one of the best
preventives against the disease is cold
air and free ventilation. A physician
stated today:
Ventilate Your Home.
1T is during the period of low tenn
perature that people huddle together
indoors, close their windows and
breathe vitiated air. This, taken into
the lungs. poisons the body, lowering
its resistive powers. and in this way
makes a fertile soil for the develop
ment OF germs.
The remedy is good ventilation,
breathing at all times pure air with
it's DEMONSTRATING powers. Diseases
of this character, sometimes brought
about by coming from an Overheated
building where large numbers of peo-
pie have assembled, into the night air
as a very low temperature are pro-
duced not so much from the sudden
change of temperature as by the low
cred resistive powers. the result of
breathing foul air for a long time in
doors.
"A room should be we'll ventilated,
especially bedrooms. Here the win
dows should be open all night, even
at zero weather. There will not be as
much danger to the normal Individual
of pneumonia, pulmonary diseases. or
what is known as Catching cold in
breathing cold air as there is in 4
room warmer but not ventilated. The
night air in cities is purer than day
air"
Pure Air is Needed.
While pure air is one of the most
important preventives of the disease,
the individual should not neglect any
precaution which will tend to keep
the physical self in good condition.
Users of alcohol are more likely to
contract the disease than teetotalers.
Physicians have class of patients
known as alcohol pneumonia victims
The history of these cases is that
most of the sufferers contract pneu-
monia while under the influence Of
drink A stimulant is a necessary
part of the treatment of the malady.
and to a person accustomed to alcohol
the administration of such large doses
is required that the stimulant itself
frequently becomes a danger.
Keep the Feet Dry.
Another important precaution is to
keep the feet dry. Wet feet cause
colds and during the congestion from
n cold. the bacili find a safe lodging
place. The neglect of colds and fati-
que lessen the resistive power of the
patient and predispose to the more
serious malady.