The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-27
HOME HEALTH CLUB

\ ttOusG U5Nesss OeOS (Edited by Dr. David H. Reeder,
 Chicago.)
 Ignorance and a Riot: Very re- gently a riot was staged by 500 Mexi- can women because they were re- questad to take a bath. There now, don't laugh until you hear the whole story. Typhus is carried from place to place and from unclean people to ; clean p~eSle earough body lice. The most dangerous foe along the battle lines of. many European fields have been the louse. He recognizes no rules of warfare and as willingly at- tacks the ambulance corps. the doctor and the nurse as the general or the caretaker of mules. All he asks is 60 be allowed to live in filth. If he could express his wants in words he would most likely say, Please don't take bath and don't change your underclothes very often."
 The poor Mexican laborer and serv- ant, are not noted for frequent bath ing or cleanliness in their clothing, but they are noted for their hospi- tality toward the louse. They seem to be inseparable.
 There was threatened epidemic of typhuse in Ell Paso, Texas, and the United States Health Service found 1t necessary to suspend the inn portatton of lice Many of the serv- ants employed in Ell Paso are Mexi- can women who live in JYArez, Mex. They go home at night on the street
 t. au were not allowed to cross the border without taking bath and the bath must beAin gasoline. While taking the bath their clothing would be fr- migated or disinfected, so there would be no live lice to infect the people with whom these women might come in contact.
 These poor, ignorant women have good memories regarding disasters and dangers. They recalled ho"' about year previously, 25 men when compelled to take such bath In the jail, had been burned to death. They got out of the street car, and walked back to Juarez, about 5O or them. The word was quickly passed around that the soldiers, the gringo soldiers were stripping the Mexican women soaking them in gasoline and settlns them on fire. The mob of 500 quick ly assembled and their methods or nreventfngs the street cars from run ming were very effective for they simply laid down on Sthe track.
 ft,s hard to understand why peo- ule. human beings having reasoning 1towers. will live in filth when 1t IS 50 well known that disease and dirt esos hand in hand One cannot blame sthe ignorant peon for objecting to take q bath in gasoline, however. think psshould object just as vigorous lv unless I could have absolute as si,rance that there was neither ire nor matches within block or the nlace, There are other means or ,disinfeeting that are just as effective but. possibly more troublesome and reauiring a little more time
 How. a word about the carriers of disease. The louse is not the cause of Typoid Fever. They are carriers, 1rothine more There are people who carry Dihptheria, colds and other dis eases and like many of the so-called disease germs, they spread. it, but they are not the disease. In order to contract any disease, however, there must be- first the suitable soil, the light condition for the disease fin your sownsfbody. ES #
 : Keep your, resisting powers up to, the normal and you will not receive a disease The Home Health Club tells you how. :
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 Dear Doctor: I bought 2 of your books about two years ago. They have always interested me and when eter I have a few minutes to spare, I study them, but cannot find any, thing concerning my present trouble. About six months ago the flies were simply terrible and it seems as if one made it's way into my left ear and ever since have felt a crawling and creeping sensation there. During the last weeks 1t has been worse than ever. ,..I have often thought of con- su1tihg one of the doctors here, but decided to write you first and hope you can give me some good advice. I have syringed> the ear with hot water, but without the slightest ef fect.s would like to obtain the bal anca of the Club books. Mrs. F. A.
 -lAnswer) It is not likely that an ordinary house fly managed to get in to your ear, though it is possible that some smaller fly or insect has done so and causes the very unpleasant sensation you mentioned. It has been killed long ago, of course. By swinging the ear with hot water, which you did, it was soon killed. But I know of many cases of this kind that were not due to any living thing, but to wax. and the treatment to be- used is very much alike for both. Insects should be killed with out delay by dropping into the ear sweet oil or any other kinds of oil, or even water, as you did, and it should then be removed as soon as possible