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Show f&F JhLow the Street Corner Chestnuts Man's Outfit Closely M, IVfe-. Resembles the Bacteriologist's Germ Incubator fJm ' 'JT KflKk and Catches the Filth and Disease mmS BkJf Germs of the Street Air and Incubates Them Wh MkSB VK1 Under Just the Right Conditions to Develop a Full Crop Jft wSfB i - W Colonies of Dust Germs As Seen Under the Microscope on Particles of WHS l$$t' IpEst , ?rafc.jaBti5S5M Dust (From Dr Prudden s Du8t and Its Danger " 91 ItlS JhLow the 's Under J us TOT-HEN the e lork Health Da Chestnut When He afoV Where Gml 104 De8ree F Now W tTrTLToTLT mewe Put8 tte CVer on HlS Pan and St,r UP H,S F,fe He Produce Are Developed Under It I, That the Chestnuts are Reinfected from the Street beneath" ?g a tLrmometer'aftachlTnt , ' , , . - . , . tt ,tl i -icnr. c wl. i. n. - 1.1 Very Much the Same to Ind cate the degree of temperature No food intended for human consump a Heat That Averages 180 Degree F. Which Thoroughly Conditions As in the Dust and Filth and the Germs Are Incubated to Full one desires to attain The cultures are tun shall be kept sold offe ed for sale Stenlj2es tha Germ$ Chestnut Vender s DevelODment maintained generally at the temperature displaced or transported unless protected Sterilizes tM uerm. Roa,tmg Pan Development gg from dust d rt flies and other contam , , ' , t. sf , . i iiiiii.. heit, and kept in the Incubator for from ination nor shall any food Intended for -- -- ANN. vOTTv. vrSiNv .. , , . , . s iw) 1 CtV r J. t-H u&VTtx. ten to twenty four hours according to human consumption be depos ted or al jr - X . fg - X X. y ' X X Hi .X Ctt ?? ,. . . .... . . . ' X. la? J . X ' S Jf jHrf: tne known rapid rv of growth of th lowed to remam within a d stance of two ! ' . V ' A , MpWi peues of germ that is being studied feet above the surface of any sidewalk A - . a v . A F . P l i! 'A rvAi But are there germs to du.f Dr strePt alley or other pubic place or the .''-- - W , ' v ' WW ' . W; . V W'C 'Wf Prudden. ,n bis W and Its Danger -floor of any build ng where exhibited feSV &N . ' .Vl 'J ' Ml'&SW has mvesUgated Ne York street air unless the same shall be contained in f W J - V V . U . 7 V w JtT .7 9? thnMy If you looked as par-boses par-boses or other receptacles V f . . . fS aJXi,V T. ' whiAVK1"?'; .i i . T 1 j . j , x , x,. . , , f" v (?i S V VJfi . Vzii . V x VS. v1 Mfrv;'.Vi Ucles of street dust under the micro-Cut micro-Cut just as under the dog muzzle law 01 X X X V. X l(s3i'i , .s . . there are more New York dogs without , V . ' S NiVSLXV JT XL-jfx BCPe here are some of the ings yoo ytyj-HEN the Na lork Health Da hf partment adopted the following food regulat on thev meant well No food intended for human consump tion shall be kept sold offe ed for sale di3plajed or transported unless protected from dust d rt flies and other contam Ination nor shall any food intended for human consumption be depos ted or al lowed to remain within a d stance of two feet above the surface of anv sidewalk etrept alley or other publ c place or the floor of any build ng where exhibited unless the same shall be contained in boxes or other receptacles But just as under the dog muzzle law there are more New York dogs without muzzles than with muzzles sp there are many k nds of food sold every day un protected front d sease germs which blow about the streets and whirl around in shops every time the floor is swept Perhaps the most remarkable evasion of the Health Board s worthy rule comes from the chestnut vender This igno rant and innocent street corner curbstone curb-stone merchant has curiously enough managed to contrive an incubator for germs of filth and dust which can hardly be Improved upon The chestnut vender happens to have an equipment which is about as good as a bacteriolog st s incu bator in which under the most favor able 6 rcumstances the doctor is able to raise a brood of germs from the culture from your throat r As long as chestnuts ire left in their natural state with the bark or peeling on them they are well protected against germs When the chestnut vender cuts a little slit In the shell of the chestnut which he always does before roasting, he probably adm ts a bunch of germs from the filthy air of the street But these germs are very quickly roasted to death in the hot pan If the vender takes the hot chestnu s out of the pan and puts them away under the usually dirty woollen cloth to keep them warm he probably lnnoculates more or less of thp chestnuts with germs from the air This however is not the most serious part of what be does It is the wide spread habit all over tl e city for the chestnut vender to let his fire die down as soon as tbf chestn ts are roasted He removAR the cover of he roasting pan and exposes the chestnuts to the swirling breezes of the dust laden air of the streets and gitters He maintains just enough heat in his roaster to keep the chestnuts at about exactly the right temperature to successfully Incubate the maximum number of germs Fxperiments and tests recently made (b t not by the Board of Health) show that the average tpmpprat re among chestnuts while they are being roasted with the cover on the pan Is about 1X0 degrees Fahrenhel This heat Is sufTI rlently high to destroy the disease germs in the chestnuts Tests made of the heat among the chestn after the cover haB been removed and they are being kept warm In the open pan exposed to dust erms show that the temperature runs ptween 8 dogreej and 104 degrees rahrenheit This Is J ist about the right tempera t p to make sure that grms which ome In from the itreet air will be quick I m I pH"l To add one more favor db I c m an p hp hestn tvendar ib f pray nc he warm -j fr tt p n wl h morp or hi ailing morp no 1 i n raturc and c il -Cultures of Dust Germs From th e Street Air, Taken in Different Places in N ew York City (From Dr Prudden's "Dust and Its Dangers ") Ball around Central Th library of a A large retail dry ... ... A cross street Park. A modsrats Squaro At private house not far flood, store on one of Railing of the small through whch the westerly wind bringing the edge of the foun j -rki u tn uptown cross park at Broadway and carts of the Street dust over from Eighth tain basin rrom Thirty fourth atreets near Broadway -rht,i, Cleaning Department avenue street and Broadway during a busy day ininy mm street were coMeetna dirt tnre medium favorable to the best de velopment of the germs It thus appears that In the Fall of the year the New York public is given an opportunity to buy nice little warm doses of well incubated disease and flltb germs put up in attractive containers carefully inenbated in the dirtiest patts of the city and sold at very reasonable rates If the drug store or candy store sold The First Act of the gS But When the Chest-Chestnut Chest-Chestnut Vender Is H nuts Are Cooked the to Cut Through iPHW Lld Is Taken Off the Nature's Protecting SiaH r- Pan' p,re Shell So As to Afford jgpXKHHp1 lowed to Die Down, Easy Entrance of Ifer and Just Eno"gh Disease Germ. Into M3 Heat Is Maintained j the Favorable Cul- nutW am th I ture Medium of the ij? Tvw!-3fl a -r 1Kggi-tjr 'HM? Average Tempera 1 Soft Pulp of the -- , j. Ak-,. or. assorted germs from the gutters in cheap and attractive w eU flavored chocolate drops no one doubts what would hap pen. The chestnut vender should, be compelkd to keep the cover on his pan and maintain a steady temperature high enough to kill dust germs or else go otT the streets Into a clean store The pub lie should have Its chestnuts but they should be properly safeguarded The apparatus of the curbstone chestnut chest-nut vender so closely resembles a doctor doc-tor s Incubator where colonies of germs are cultivated and developed for bacteriological bac-teriological examination that it is inter eating to see how close the resemb lance is In a bacteriological laboratory germs are placed In or on a c flture medium such as gelatine or a cut potato some medium which under the right condl tions of temperature and so on are nu trlent for germs a medium congenial for germs to grow and thrive and mul tlply In Then tils medium lth its im planted germs, is put Into the inoubator a contrivance consisting in principle of an Incubating chamber hlch may be opened at the top This incubating chamber is enveloped in a water cbam ber an3 there s provision for a flame beneath i th a thermometer attachment to Ind cate the degree of temperature one desires to attain The cultures ars maintained generally at the temperature of the human body 98 6 degrees Fahren heit, and kept in the incubator for from ten to twenty four hours according to the known rapid rv of growth of th ipeoies of germ that is being studied But are there germs in dust Dr Prudden. in his Dust and Its Danger" " has investigated New York street air very thoroughly If you looked as particles par-ticles of street dust under the microscope micro-scope here are some of the things you would observe The germs of tubercu losis pneumonia influenza abscess and 60 forth alo veasts mold fungi plas ter iron r st stone dust, sand, cement from building operations dirt from ex cavations or from badlv constructed ten ments plant fibres pollen flne hairs dried garbage blown from barrel and cans ch mney soot cinder and other material from industrial plants cloth and other fabric fibres ground flies and. other injects excrement ot dogs horses and other animals and. well, and so forth How germ convevlng a dirtv atmosphere atmos-phere an be i Impressed upon thoe who ha e -seen the series of nutrient plates which were exposed bv Street Cleaning Commissioner Woodburv some jeare ago n the n etropolis. These series were n pairs the before and after ides. One s cl a Valr noild represent atmos pberlc ond ions in a dense! crowded nelghborlood where the sanltarv con ditlons were b comparison poor Its companion pla e exposed under i recisery identical conditions wo Id rei resent & cleanl er and more sal ibrio is part of town Here ts e ich a pair of pates. The ot e teems vith molds f ingi germs, " ki 1 of 1 purltv offens cenc and deleterto s to heath the civic unci anl ness Nor are onl the germs in dust dan, pro s to heilth there s ox , du n many occ p tKns d s, containing have t! o p , ertv to irritate the de ca" mioous nembranes of the pper aS IL ?8ff microbe attack and to ind 4 the inflamh atlons characteristic of the SWbu?. 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