Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-09-20
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERG.
A. b.. M. A, M. D. John Hopkins).

Your Workshop Should BE As Clean as
Your Homo.
One of the greatest feats for man to
perform is to make his workshop as
healthful as his home ought to be. A
mans work should fall in pleasant
places He should have goodly heri-
tage of all that makes for health,
strength and efficiency in his factory,
shop, office and store.
Time was when doctors worked with
dirty finger nails and undisinfected
hands. Even homes had no bath tubs,
sunlight. flush toilets nor running
water. China pitchers and bowls were
found in hotel guest rooms. Germs of
disease were easily transferred from
mother to child, from guest to guest,
from employe to employer
But no more The laborer may today
be bowed by the weight of centuries,
the emptiness of ages may be In his
face, on his back may rest the burden
of the world; he may be stolid.
stunned, hopeless and without grief,
blood brother to the OK, yet dawn
breaks for him In his restricted day
of eight to ten hours.
II labor unions we're as alert to
their own profit in the way Of sani-
tary factories as they are to other
supposed capitalistic delinquenoies,
there would be more ventilation and
light and less dirt or dust in build
ing where industry lives.
Cleanliness of floors by hose and
water under pressure, In factories
where the industry permits, increases
the health simultaneously with earn
| ing power.
Dry Dusting Taboo.
necessary to clean the floors of the
buildings to ward off poisoning, by
the use of hot water and the scrub
btng brush. II cloths, fabrics or
other materials from CATTLE sheep
and living things are used as raw
materials, carbolic acid must be en-
ployed as a germ killer.
Vacuum cleaning in the up-to-date
workshops, newly and frequently
painted walls and ceilings in light
colors make for strength and an in
creased output, which more than re-
wards the investor for the expendi-
| ture.
If legislative enactments go unen-
forced-as they somehow do-if health
officers are impotent to stop dry
sweeping, dry dusting and other dirt
raising methods which pass muster
for cleaning, then, l say, let the
unions and their walking delegates
bring this abomination to pause.
The New York State Factory Com
mission, backed by excellent laws
and supported by a rare group OF
willing capitalists, finds itself almost
powerless to enforce hygienic meas
ures In workshops. The Eastland
disaster, the Slocum calamity, the
Iusitania and Titanic holocausts, ir
| l]erk ~ n
ing compared to those lost by willfu
disregard of health in unclean shops
Special Lunch Places.
Over 90 per cent of factories wher'
hair goods are made are far from
clean and healthful. More than eight!
in every 100 ice cream, soft drink anC
mineral water shops are guilty o
similar iniquities before natures law
of health. More than half of tn
bread and bakery establishments ar
equally poisonous. Campaigns rag
properly against leads, sulphur, phos
: phorus and other poisons made Il
factories, yet a pernicious malignan
Moloch still take toll of life and vi
tality from dirty shops.
While 1t is eminently proper to RAJ
, against the compulsion of workers t
use towels, drinking cups, brushes
combs, cuspidors, toilets, washin
facilities and the like. more firmnes
and assiduity must be brought to bea
upon cleanliness, light, ventilation
{ toilet and bathing accommodation
/. the quick repair of faulty fixtures
a bountiful lunch rooms, avoidance {
odors, noises, fumes. waste and pollu
tions.
: Family eating lunch In the sho
proper should be taboo. Not onl