El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-02
yNCLEAN PARTS Of Fl PAS0
ENDANGER ALL Of THE REST
Doctor Tells Woman's Club of Manner in Which Dis
ease is Carried From One Person to Another; From
One Place to Another, by Failure to Take Neces-
sary Precautions; Death is Carried by Flies

blood, like malaria, which are trans
mitted by mosquito bites, which also
mean unclean conditions to breed the
mosquito; diseases Of the intestines'
like typhoid, cholera and dysentery,
which can only be transmitted by our
food or drinking supply becoming pol
luted with the excreta from the bow
els or kidneys of other people These
latter germs live only in the intestines
and can be transmitted in no other
way and their transferrence also
means dirt and unclean conditions.
The influenza epidemic is absolutely
due to uncleanliness, for the influenza
bacilla is a most delicate organism that
can live only for very brief time out
Of the body, vet its almost Wildfire
spreading through a community shows
how intimately in contact We are as
ISOLATED one with another
Cleanliness Saves Life.
1.-THE people of the Mosaic times had
sanitary laws pounded into them with
their religion, and the penalties for vio-
lating these laws Of cleanliness were
very severe They did not have the
knowledge Of the causes Of disease that
we have, for IL was not until the per-
lection Of the microscope that the full
part of malignant bacilla IN causing
disease was understood 1t used to be
the thing to lay the blame for the
summer death rate of babies upon the
Almighty. Now we know that it is
solely due to negligence on the part OF
the community in permitting filth TO
infect the baby. and not the fault OF
God
Cause of Baby Diseases.
1.-THE majority Of cases Of dysentery
and summer complaint in babies are
solely due to filth. Dysentery is caused
by a germ that lives in the digestive
tract and it can only be transmitted by
eating food which has been polluted by
4as -,9 Since
people have awakened to this. the
death rate among babies in the summer
has been cut down marvelously-
The fly is the most deadly menace
to human life, and vet people brush
him aside and continue to eat the food
upon which he has just dragged his
germ laden. filthy legs A fly is only
a full grown maggot If you were Of
fered a plate OF food in restaurant or
in your home that was crawling with
maggots, you would push II aside IN
disgust, vet YOU viii eat food upon
which the fly. bred in filth. has walked
All infectious and conta gious diseases
are due solely to germ life"
Danger in Water and MIX.
DR.. Waite then explained at length
the way in which infectious diseases
can be transmitted by unclean water
supply and milk supply. After dis
cussing these and emphasizing the i'm
portance Of the proper care Of milk at
home. the necessity for boiling all milk
bottles, nipples and vessels used. DR..
Waite discussed FL Pasos particular
problems.
Our menace in FL Paso is the Next
can quarter" he said People say let
il alone; it does not affect US" but il
most positively does affect the entire
city. Conditions can not be filthy south
Of the tracks without making the peo-
pie north OF the tracks pay dearly
Cor it
Flies Spread Filth.
'sThe flies bred in the Mexican quar-
ter alone during the summer are enough
to menace the entire city. FL Paso has
got to develop enough public spirit to