The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-07-06
BOARD Of MEATH BULLETIN
Choosing q Resort for the Summer
Months for the Family.

Months for the Family.
II you or your family go away from
home for vacation this summer 1t
will be partly for pleasure, but mainly |
for HEALTH. You hope to come back
strengthened and refreshed for the |
work OF the coming year. 1t Is an UNI
fortunate fact that many people who
have saved up for their vacations In
this spirit come back, not strong and
we'll, but infected with germs of dis
ease that will keep them for weeks on
q sick bed and ii they recover will |
leave them for months afterward in
poor physical condition. Vacation ty !
phoid" is a far too familiar fact to
every health officer.
The state department of health de-
votes great deal of attention to the |
supervising OF the sanitary condition
of summer resorts. The people of the |
state could do much themselves to aid
in this important work If they would
take steps to inform themselves before
hand about the precautions taken by
hotels and boarding houses to protect
their guests. The state inspector cam
not be on the ground all the time, but
the hotel keeper has profound res
pect for the educated public opinion Of
his patrons.
Before deciding where to go for va
cation find out all you can about the
water supply and sewage disposal, the
milk supply and the presence of in
sect pests
Make it clear that the WATER
SUPPLY must be properly protected
from sewage contamination, and If
you find when you arrive that 1t is TAX
en- from a stream or pond into which
sewage enters without proper purifi-
cation you should cancel your reser-
walton. II the water comes from a
well be sure that 1t is not polluted
by washings from the surface Of the
ground. The we'll curb should be rails
ed at least foot above the ground
and the top covered over by tight
board cover or concrete slab. The we'll
should be as far away as possible from
any special sources of pollution such
as cesspools or outhOuses.
II the house has a regular water
closet and sewage system, find out
where 1t empties and whether the sew
age pours into lake from which you
are expected to drink or in which you
are expected to battle. If there is an
outside dry closet make sure that the
closet is TIGHT and the closet screen
ed to KEEP OUT FLIES. Flies carry
disease germs from such places to the
dinner table.
There is always danger that FLIES
or MOSQUITOES may carry disease.
Flies breed in decaying filth and mos
Quitoes in stagnant water, and both
Of these pests can be largely controll-
ed by sanitary conditions OF the prem
isee. II the dining room Is black
with flies when you arrive, REMEM-
BEEN and try another hotel at once
You can get healthy conditions that
will insure happy vacation and send
you back to your home In the best OF
health and vigor--if you will demand
them.
How Fresh Air Cures Tuberculosis.
A patient in a tuberculosis sana-
torium writes to the state board OF
health to ask, What is the effect OF
fresh air upon the germ of tuberculo-
ais In the lungs?"
Reply-There Is probably no direct
effect of fresh air upon the tubercle
bacillus in the lungs. The fresh air
affects the patient and makes it easier
to fight off the disease.
The healthy human body has its
fighting edge" which enables 1t tc
hold its own against the tubercle bacil-
lus ii It Is given chance. Great
numbers of people become infected
with tubercle germs who do not devel-
op actual disease because the germs
cannot gain any foothold. 1t is the
people who live in overheated rooms
and breathe the air of dusty factories
and get too little food and sleep who
fall victims to tuberculosis. Dissipa
ton and attacks OF other diseases al
SO prepare the way for 1t.
Life in the open under medical ad
vice, breathing fresh cool air and sur
rounding the body with fresh cool ali
these things somehow stimulate thu
system to resist the invading germ
build up its vital resistance SO that tn,
patient who has just begun to develol
tuberculosis succeeds in overcoming
the germs and at last gets we'll.
In every case of tuberculosis and il
most other diseases as we'll there ar
two sides, as there are said to be to
quarrel. 1t is just as important t.
strengthen the body as to weaken tn,
germ, and this is what fresh air does
Indeed, we cannot by medicine or il
any other way attack the germs 0
tuberculosis.
IN THE PROBATE COURT OF TIKI
COUNTY OF TWIN FALLS,
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