The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-09
A GOLDEN RULE OF HYGIENE

our national trend in hygiene is not exactly altruisic. Nor is it case or doing un1o n1 done inc it first We demand that the other fellow do unto us as he would like to have us do unto hlHi' Mrs F. w. expresses it well:
 Dear MT Brady:
 Night before last my husband and paid
 dollar to see really excellent show, but We might better have paid two to stay away The man behind us sneezed through the entire per formance, with the result that my huspand | awoke next morning with sore throat Whlch
 and an an to-dav in the rasfest stage of bad cri Now every knows that cri is highly | unpleasant and dangerous, also highiy con- Besides me there were probably 50 or 60 other people who are having miserable week because of that mans selfshness. How ever much we might wish that such pests should expiate their offense in the city Jaii Hanging is perhaps a little severely, re- propaganda and a hostile pubic opinion
 It would be doing the public real service if you would ask through your influential col urln by what right it takes its fresh juicy
 ''cod" into crowded place of entertainment.
 Mrs F. W. My dear madam, have been asking the pub lie that and calling the offending portion of pub lie all the low names could persuade the paper to print these many years and the public health officials and the general medical profession quite cordially decline to confirm such radical teach ing or practice. Here and there some public health official mildly suggests it is better for you to stay in bed day or two when you have we what
 
 frans from implying that you're 8 menace to all your associates during the onset and acute stage of trouble f He Re IS m he sets o Rules issued every little while by public health authorities for the guidance of persons who be- lieve they have 'colds' I have never found a definite rule of isolation from contact with other persons
 | The consensus of public health authorities at present gives the individual with an alleged "cold" the right to except himself from this gold | en rule of hygiene. Other duffers, of course are | 11I, not lIxr n places and gatherings of people while so indis- posed but not we: we ourselves can always find | some good excuse for failing to obey the golden | rule. A business woman who has strong convic- tions about this kept right at the office when she had severe @ err. pleading that hef absence firms business and they were so kind to her that she just couldn't. That's the sort of alibi that makes the outlook for any general adoption | of this golden rule of hygiene seem dscouraging Perhaps the sneezer who sat behind Mrs F. w another to attend, even though he felt rotten enough to prefer staying home
 It is not clearly evident that this offender was an open face sneezer. If he was of that breed MT F. should have called an usher and demand ed that the nuisance be removed or other seats be provided for himself and his wife. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS State Medicine Debate
 Women's intercollegiate debating squad of H. linois State Normal university are debating the question, "ShOuld Stata medicine be established? Please give me your views about it. GA. T.) Answer-From all the samples have seen am opposed to so-called "state medicine" in every form. They have it now in Russia, and all initiative and inspiration is destroyed-these are the influences which favor research. discovery the advance of science. Only the politicians and the parasites of society would like to see such a calamity visited this free country. It is really comical how people who are so reluctant to have state ownership control of state or public natural resources and utilities, are so fond ot agtating for state control of the very individual matter of the practice of medicine If the doctors bow down to state medicine surely the honor able merchants should accept state ownership or control of business.
 "Cold" Develops
 An epidemic of "pnk eye' has broken out in 2 private school here. Tn several cases the child in school first contracted the disease and pres. cntIy several other members of the chlds house. hold had 1t. too. You will be amused. we expect by the the diagnosis suggested in the earlier cases by some of foremost physicians and eye specialists. They opined the kids had "caught cold" in the eyes, (K. F. C.)
 Answer-And if you to corner one of the guessing docs that he would probably argue that the exposure to wet feet merely lowered the child's resistance" and of course then the l first germ that happened along seized on the victim. That's the tune our old fogies always sing. Pink eye" of course, is an epidemic con. punctvites inflammation of the lining of the eyelids and covering of eyeballs). caused by q specific bacillus It is highly contagious, whether you get your feet wet or leave on your wraps or not.