Show THE THE GOSPE Go OF FRESH AIR Dr TV W A Evans health commission commissioner er ar of J f Chicago has started a war on 4 I II J i the stuffy tenements of that city In a recent interview he said Crowded C unventilated tenements are increasing the death rate In Chi Chicago Chicago cago There were deaths d from pneumonia in Chicago during the last eleven months or more than the corresponding period of or the preceding year There were deaths from consumption or 15 more than han there were last year Most of ot these deaths are due to lack of ot ventilation and sun sunshine sunshine shine Congested tenement houses are the principal contributing causes The country has not recovered from the shock caused by the terrible mine disaster at Monongah in West Vir Virginia Virginia ginia In which lives were sacrificed crl The thousands of ot deaths from pneumonia and kindred ailments many of them absolutely preventable cause but little comment A dozen soldiers go out on the firing line Une and are killed At nce the news is flashed d around the county country It is printed under big head headlines headlines headlines lines and for days forms a topic of conversation The Tie thousands who go unnecessarily into their graves because of ot a lack of ot fresh tresh air of sunshine and of ot sanitary surroundings sink into oblivion with without without without out leaving heaving a ripple above the spot where they the went down It is good to see a man of ot the standing and ability of ot Dr Evans vigorously taking up the crusade There is no more import important ant question agitating the health de at the present time he says sa s sAnd And he headds adds As the city increases in population and rents advance while the flood of ot immigration shows no sign of ot decreasing decreasIng decreasing ing the death rate is bound hound to increase unless we take measures in time to educate the people against crowding into unventilated buildings especially es those in the alleys The problem is one that has not as asyet yet confronted Salt Lake We have plenty of room here room in which to breathe and in which to grow At the same sarna time it Is s true that a large per percentage pe of ot the people of or Salt Lake City does not appreciate the value of sun sunshine sunshine sunshine shine and fresh air They live in stuffy stuffy fy f inS houses Their doors and windows o s are shut tightly at night and they vender why they th feel badly when they awaken in the morning They wonder too why it is so so easy for them i ito to patch ratch cold If ev everybody bodY could be persuaded that is immensely better than warm air that is impure It if they could be made to understand that a warm house ho se and a house filled with pure air are not impossible at the same time the public p health would be vastly Im Improved proved |