| Show FOUL AIR AS A GERM GARDEN good sanitation prim necessity as a defense against germs the development of the germs so fatal to humanity when taken into the system is an effort of nature to destroy and really eat up effete matter the grub and maggot disgusting as they are arc true scavengers and if sufficient time be allowed them they will reduce to innocuous dust the most poisonous of animal and vegetable matter we regard the creatures with abhorrence because of their occupation but they are laboring albeit unconscious ly in the interest of higher forms of life when disease generating matter has passed through the digestive canal of the pupa it is no longer infectious in the and filthy portions of a city the foul matter is constantly accumulating far beyond the corrective powers of unaided nature deadly gases are cast off from festering heaps vapors charged with microscopic germs which hatch fearful ailments in that weak mechanism mans body but even where the system is not directly affected by germ diseases the influence of the foul gases why we do not fully understand as yet tends to lower vitality to such a degree eliat the subject is always in good condition to take a fever of the typhoid class scar altina diphtheria etc prof aleksis experiments says an exchange show that a person who has lived in foul air for a considerable time will get any one of the fatal germ diseases much more readily than one who has breathed pure air and only absorbs the creams by accident prof abssi has proved that the same is true with animals he placed a number of dogs pigs etc in such a situation that they were compelled to live for some weeks in an atmosphere mo sphere saturated with the noxious vapors from garbage heaps these he inoculated with the typhoid bacilla bacil lu at the same time inoculating a similar number of animals which had been brought direct from the pure air of the rural district the first lot died some of them in thirty six hours with unmistakable typhoid symptoms while not one of the second lot was affected it was observed however that when the rural animals began to breathe the infected air they began at once to show signs of weakness and lassitude they lost their liveliness and grew glassy eyed and though they continued ax eat they became poor in flesh there is a grim significance in these facts which should teach ns a lesson that good sanitation is a prime necessity not only as a defense against direct assaults of germ disease but also against the lowering of the physical powers winch opens the system not only to the bacillus but to all the other foes which lie in wait to destroy life |
