The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-28
DISEASE AND
DIRT ARE
NJ.
TIInAIC Al
WINS yT%
i n
Filth in Streets May Cause Your
Death, So Help as Much az
You Can to Clean Town. ,
~ That the Children Wash Hands
and Face Before Eatins-and|
Fight Files, for They're
Pestilsnt.
BY DR.. A. 8. BARNES.

Dirt and disease are apt to 90 to
sether, but until lately no one knew
why. Today we know that dirt and
disease often are closely connected
because dirt generally Is not merely
dead earth, but rather q kind Of liv.
Ing earth, crowded with unseen and
almost countless germs Of microbes,
some Of which are dangerous, and even
deadly.
Dirty streets are dangerous because
the dirt in this case may cling to
shoes or other articles Of footwear and
be carried from the streets into houses
where, either as fresh dirt or more
often as dry dirt (dust), it may ind
Its way to foods or other articles, which
either enter or touch the mouths Of
members Of the household.
Street dust also is dangerous when
dried up or pulverized or turned into
dust which may be readily lifted and
blown about, thus finding its way per.
,haps directly into the mouths Of hu.
man beings or through cracks or
crevices or open doors and windows
into human habitations, and finally
Into human bodies, with articles Of
food or drink.
Dust Causes Many Diseases.
The connection between street dust
and a number Of diseases now is clear.
~ established. 1t Is claimed that out
OF B experiments IN animals, the
germs contained In city and dust
caused infectious diseases in 80 cases.
Dust may so lower the vitality Of
the mucous membranes by producing
an irritated condition of the respira.
tory organs that the development al
disease Is made easy from the GERM, ,
deposited thereon.
street dust cQAsists Of ashes.
ground-pp steel. iron. stone and as.
p!hhalfNmi house and store sweepines.
Of plants. excrements Of
horses, dogs and birds, dried sputa.
aead pulverized insects, pulverixed
eartA. plaster and cement, earth from
ltreet excavations, SCOT from chimnevs.
from fruit stands, garbage and
sven human excrements, which in
'rowded regions frequently are yoided
Children or adults In alleys and I'M.
lighted streets.
This NTH IL being whirled into on,
BY the wind, BY motor and street \
arg M other vehicles. while We wall
Y Drive; Into our homes, ofices. fac.
ores. theaters. churches and stores
shere meats, fish, fruit, vegetables. /
'readstuffs, cake, pastry, candles. IN.
ectio0 ery, etc, form q fnal reatln,
iace Tor this ,germ.laden flth. II sIso J
etties on walls, carpets, curtain,
ZONES, and then 10 set freshly into
REGULATION with each and eyerv dnst. +
as and sweeping.
osrms Plentiful In Feed.
It Is still easier to understand vh,
ater which contains dirt or excrets
DC very dangerous, because IN no
az are the germs Of disease mors
saol'y taken Into the human body
"a, With food and drink.
Dirty milk 10 ~danserous because The
=. most often found IN milk II ma. 1
Of else dirt from dirty barna
oirty utensils, or dirty niIkmen
nave handled the milk WITH dirty
~ Dirty hands ~ dauserous. -
human hands 20 very readily
~ 10y everywhere, and thus only too :,
a.S ~ become dirty-chlldrsa, a. q.
', t.., ' soiled thslr hands, may
~. .ne next minute put their IN. 10
anth .pon 'aslr faces Or Into their ii
q ~ .uu tnus earry dirt, md VIA q
Y ~ serrns Of disease dlrteeiy rs &.
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