Show War on on GERMS Just when we we think we have licked the germ along comes the s perg rm D Doctors s say say y we go got too sure of of ourselves d depended pen t too toom o 0 m much h on anti antibiotics s and nd t too o 0 little tittle on the the scrubbing brush that wa was wa grandmas grandma's weapon against Infection As a result new g germ strains stratus that hat are arc resIstant resistant resistant re re- to most antibiotics have appeared on the s scene Furthermore Furthermore Furthermore Further Further- more extensive use of antibiotics s has also upSet the normal body defenses defens s of pf a a. lot of us by discouraging some sonie some of the good type policeman po type n germs germs in our systems that normally t l ta a k ke e ec c care care r of oC the r. r 1 I Evidence of r these super super- germs is the he significant nt number number num num- ber of 0 of infections in in hospital nurseries and nd surgical wards and among the families es of hospital hospItal hospital hos hos- pital patients So serious has this this' bc become om that some ome health authorities ar are viewing this as the major health alth problem of th the next decade War against these s sup super u p e r- r germs must be fought on a anum number num number ber of fronts Hospitals a are r e tightening up on th their ir aseptic and disinfectant practices research research re re- s search arch Is striving to find new antibiotics to knock off the su- su doctors are re ca cautioned caution caution- cautioned tion ed cd against the the ex excessive use of antibiotics c and informed homemakers home homemakers homemakers makers makers- are becoming increasingly increasingly aware of need th the need for dis dis- infection in the home It is in the home in fact that a large part of the battle must be fought for Cor a member of oC the family who is infected may spread infection to other members of oC the family to schoolmates visitors terse And the average American Ameri Ameri- can home no matter how clean It it tt may look may harbor serious serious serious ser ser- ious con concentrations of or dangerous dangere danger danger- ous organisms micro-organisms which are not killed by soap So its it's time for the homemaker homemaker home home- maker to declare war to launch a frontal attack on the with the addition of an effective old-fashioned old time tested disinfectant such as Lysol Lysol Ly- Ly Lysol sol to the routine household cleaning operations especially in the bathroom and nursery When laboratory tests p r r-o r 0 o v e etha etha tha such a kills the jis as well as the others fit f ni gt n soap and water the little woman can go into battle as well armed as the finest hospital Even the rm is n no match snatch for the American super- super I wife |