The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-06-07
THE DANGERS OF LIVING
IN OVERHEATED PLACES
Keep the Temperature of Your
Homes and Business Places
At About 70 Degrees

Washington. June 2.-Do you live in
the tropics?
Sounds like q foolish question for
any one 20 ask this of American citizens,
but after thinking it over and hearing
what DR.. J. M. Eager, surgeon iu the
United States Public Health and Marine
Hospital service. has to say, the answer
from several thousand Oregonians. a
few thousand North Dakotans, several
hundred gross OF Vermonters, aud an
equal number Of Pine Tree residents
may be yesl Surgeon Eager is going to
ask some millions of Americans that
very question in little circular which
is being mailed to day. With the hot
weather approaching yon will overlook
bet If you don't peruse il carefully.
In the meantime. DIR. Eager permitted
the United Press to publish in advance
the gist OF what he says in the circular.
which deals as much with high temper
atures In Winter as it does with high
Ah 0utu hOis
DIR. Eager declares that this country,
through the lack of knowledge of the
general public is exposed to dangers
more dire than the exotic ills Of the
equatorial region. He says the general
tendency to keep homes, business places
and schools overheated is responsible for
mnnh nf he a. tcbn ~ A.
combat disease.
High temperatures" claims DR..
Eager, 'are debilitating and reduce
ones ability to resist diseases as danger
ous as the dreaded maladies of the trop.
les. Indigenous diseases-tuberculosi
for instance-are less abhorent to us
than tropic disease. But the terrible
yellow fever is mild enemy to the
human race compared with tuperculo.
sis. Keep the temperature of your
homes, Offices and school houses, your
theaters and public meeting houses as
near the ideal temperature of 20 degrees
as possible. Any higher temperature
reduces the resistance power of the
human body and makes one liable to
serious ailments. 1t weakens the de-
fense which nature has provided us to
fight the bacilli of disease.
"What sensible person would send
his children to the tropics to school |?
Yet many thousands Inadvertently do
so. Schools are kept at a temperature
OF S0degrees, and S5 is not unusual.
Long hours spent in such overheated
atmospheres render children stupid, IN.
able to stand exposure, subject to colds
and catarrhal affections. The personal
preference for hot rooms, especially
the preferences for chilly teachers and
anaemic children should be disregarded.
If such persons cannot stand it they
should be segregated for the good of the
great majority.
"Break away from the slavery of high
temperatures. Take walks; keep your
windows open from both top and bot
tom. aud learn to love fresh air even if
it makes you slightly uncomfortable at
first.
'If your occupation is a sedentary
one. take your vacations in the brilliant,
sparkling Fall when you will move
about and breathe deeply and conse-
quently feel that after all this is a
pretty good old world to live in. Do
not take your vacation in the Summer
when you most probably will loll about
in iudolence, unless You go to the
mountains or to some bracing northern
climate, for predisposition causes a
great deal of the disease Of the world.
Medical science is successfully battling
with exciting causes. Predisposition.
however. rests with the individual and
the greatest guard against predisposition
is fresh air and the suppression of in.
door tropics.