New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-10-30
Your Health
How to Keep It.
Causes of Illness
w DR.. Hugh S. Cumming
Sturgeon General, United States
Public Health Service)

Sturgeon General. United States
Public Health service)
To the individual there are few
things Il so great Importance as
healtr, Upon health depend his
attitt-s toward life and his rela-
tionsulp with his fellowmen.
You, as citizen, should be in
terested In the health of your COM
munity. Without health there can
be no real prosperity and any ma
terial success obtained without
health would BIO OF small benefit.
Every case of a communicable
disease In a city threatens the well
fare of every citizen. Did you ever
stop TO think that every case OF
tuberculosis, every case of typhoid
fever. is to some degree menace
TO every uninfeeted person?
Modern civilization In Its Develop
ment has become more and more
complex and as a result OF the
many requirements of social and
commercial intercourse we are
brought more frequently in contact
with our tellowman and his life.
Today a number of cities require
that no person afflicted with any
communicable disease shall be en-
ployed in bake shop, restaurant.
confectionery, etc, and general in
formation regarding the spread OF
communicable disease is dissem-
mated among the people.
We may be exposed to disease in
insanitary barber shops. Many peo-
pie are exposed to diseases Of serv-
ants, not only their diseases but to
the diseases in families and houses
from whence the servants came
Unless proper precautions are
taken we may be exposed to the
diseases of those who send their
clothes TO the same washer woman,
So 1t goes through a long list OF
contacts which modern civilization
has produced.
Many People Handle Milk
Instead Of one family handling
the milk as In the old days, now
there may be hundreds ana If the
milk from any one family Is in
fected with typhoid, dlphtheria,
sore throat or scarlet fever germs
all the milk may become contain
mated when it is mixed in the vat
of the city distributor and hun
}reds of families may thus be ex-
\ 81 TO infection.
This Is not a statement concern
ing an imaginary Or possible condi-
ton, 1t Is circumstance Of all too
frequent occurrence. Epidemics OF
, typhoid fever due to infected milk
have been frequent. Epldemics in
which there have been hundreds OF
cases OF the above named diseases
have been caused by milk.
In Washington, several years ago,
more than twenty cases of typhoid
fever developed among people who
had attended church supper. The
cause OF this infection. according to
the local health authorities, was
J traced to unpasteurized milk used
: by one family in preparation Of
some of the food. Tuberculosis has
often been conveyed by milk.
r Each Citizen Must Help
In street cars we come into close
contact with people from many
5 homes and there are still other
means by which we are brought
into contact with our fellow citizens
and their diseases.
| The fly that breeds In filth by its
sociable habits of going from one
house to another may carry disease
to people who never see the sick.
: In church or in tho theater we
come into contact with people from
many houses in some of which
there may be persons sick with
communicable diseases
1t is only proper, in view Of these
facts, that each household give spe-
cial attention to tho welfare OF
other households by keeping at
home those sick with communicable
diseases until all danger of spread
ing the disease is past.
No citizen will wish by lack OF
due care TO be responsible for sick
ness occurring in other families,
sickness that may deprive others OF
life.