Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-16
Health Talks by DR.. Brady



Tho annual vacation habit which appears
to be Increasing alarmingly in America would
perhaps bring less serious strain upon
health and endurance il folks addicted to the
habit nude some little cndeavor TO condition
themselves in advance. As II is the casualties
arc something appalling. and from the time
when the early vacationists come tottering
nome around the calends OF July. hollow
eyed nervous wrecks. to tho last forlorn
stretcher party bearing the latest word in
typhoid about the ides OF October doctors
SIMPLY cant snatch an opportunity TO slip
away and make fools OF themselves
There is something strangely pcrvcrsc and
wrong about the vacation habit for almost
invariably the individual who needs n vacation
most gets none At ALL and those who arc only
injured and made less useful. IT possible by
such an interruption get a long one each year
with fun pay and tho worlds blessing rake
mother, for example. l mean the mother who
mothers her own children and keeps her own
mousse instead or hiring some one TO suhstl-
tute for her. who ever heard OF mother get
ing vacation? Why. It isn't dono. When
II comes 10 the question of vacation for
mother. the whole family Is one with me on
the unwisdom of any such interruption of the
ordinary routine. Everybody vacates recl-
lessly enough AZ our house but mo,her-we
Keep mother at homo on the Job for the good
OF her health. YOU understand. She ought
10 be glad OF the chance--don't we furnish
hcr twcntH-one meals week the year roundp
but m"ihcr aside. and speaking seriously
now, any one purpoSinG to risk n yacatiop
Shouid take certain sound precautions for the
protection Of his health II IL is to be an orgy
OF swimming, hiking. tennis or other strenu-
Gus sports. the prospective vacationIst should
p'Ein AZ least SIX weeks in advance 10 irain
by regular daily exercise gradually increased
ana by daily walks over gradually increasing
distances. This should include also "a yradu-
ally increasing exposure 10 the sun ms pre.
Nention Of sunburn. One not accustomed In
exposure should begin with periods of not
more than five minutes OF direct cxnosure
three times a day. and increase the duration
OF the periods five minutes each succeeding
DAY. IL something like this were the rule we
doctors would not reap such a huge harvest
treating wicked sunburn, because the skin
would be gradually tanned. not burned and
'hus made insensitire to long exposure
The menace of typhoid still pursucs tho
Vaeation-mad traveller. not only in poIluated
drinking water. but in various fresh veye-
tables washed with polluted water and in
ali kinds OF food. raw cooked which has
heen handled by person who is perhap,
iar as danger from drinking water is con.
ccrhod every vacationist may protect himself
III eithcr OF two ways. by boiling all water
before drinking. or by dissolvIng In each quart
haiaz"nc tablet TO disinfcct It. Iialazone
Is chlorine compound especially prcparcd
Tor this purpos" and purchasablc from drug
Elsts everywhere. For protection against tho
o'heT sources OF typhoid fever there is but
enc resort-hc inimunized by your physician
before you leave home