Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-27
SEASONADLE hints
OF HEALTH BULLETIN
Unhand The Handkerchief Garry
1t In Pocket.
ADVISES DR.. JOHN F. HOGAN
Ordinary Causes OF Colds Commits
sioner Of Health Says Kissing Is
A Dissemination.

writing a SeaS0naDle bulletin on the
most common causes Of the ordinary
cold" Dr. John F. Hogan, Assistant
Commissioner of Health, Baltimore,
gives designers of milady's gown tip
He says it would be well for them TO
create a pocket for the handkerchief,
so that it can be kept out of the hand,
which is constantly, though innocent
ly, placed in the way of filth and dis
ease"
DR.. Hogan calls attention TO the
approach of autumn, with its change
able weather and variations of tenn
perature, which bring colds" to so
many people "A cold,' he points out.
lis essentially a germ disease, which
may be conveyed from one person to
another. 1t is true, however, certain
individuals escape because they are
immune from the attacks of that
particular type of germ"
Incidentally, the assistant head OF
the Health Department mentions kiss
ing as popular .disseminator of
germs. He says:
Spreading Infection.
The germs causing a cold like most
of the infectious disease germs, en-
ters the body through the nose or
mouth. There are many ways of
spreading infection from the nose and
mouth of one individual TO another in
dividual, which have been described
quite definitely and quite extensively
in the past decade To roughly re-
view a very few of the better known
ways we might mention the common
drinking glass, the common towel and
kissing
"The practice of placing money in
the mouth has fallen into absolute dis
use among intelligent people.
There is one popular habit which
demands public attention, and which
has been sadly overlooked in medical
and sanitary articles. This is a habit
of which women are the chief offend
ers; namely, the carrying of the
handkerchiefs in the hand. The
handkerchief is used chiefly on the
nose and mouth, the great ports of en-
try of contagion into the human body,
as we'll as the two great disseminators
of infection from the human body. 1t
would be impossible to outline in
this brief bulletin the indiscriminate,
careless and neglectful methods OF
carrying the handkerchief However,
the most common method used by the
American woman of today. and at-this
time of the year, is that of carrying
the handkerchief in the hand, either
gloved or ungloved. Frequently she
handles money with this same hand.
In many instances she grips the bar
of the trolley car with the hand that
holds the handkerchief She places
her hand very often on the counter in
a department. store or other public
place (such as the window at the box
office of a theatre, through which
hundreds, and even thousands, of
pieces of money pass daily with that
same handkerchief in it, and the next
minute she uses it about her nose and
mouth.
Garry 1t In Pocket.
"Often one will expectorate into a
handkerchief sputum which may con-
tain the germs of tuberculosis, men
ingitis or diphtheria, then handle
money or some other object with that
same hand, still holding the infected
handkerchief, so that in very few
minutes. or in some instances a few
seconds, another person with clean
handkerchief in her hand will toucn
this infected material and thereby run
the risk of injecting her own handker-
chief A handkerchief should be car
ried in a clean pocket, which should
be used for that purpose solely
Another methods of carrying the
handkerchief which is quite popular
at this time is the hand bag. which
very often has in the compartment
where the handkerchief is kept money
or a nail file. and it is quite a we'll
known fact that a nail file uproots
numerous organisms from beneath the
nails. 1t would be well for fashion
designers to create model pocket for
the care of the handkerchief, so that
it can be kept out of the hand, which
is constantly and innocently placed
- tl,a vxax of filth and disease /"