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Show borne infections distribute their bacteria-laden saliva through eating eat-ing utensils and drinking glasses often causing trench mouth, common com-mon coids, and less often, such diseases as scarlet fever, diptheria. syphilis and others. Only then will come a popular demand for sanitary sani-tary eating utensils and drinking glasses. A reduction of dangerous disease dis-ease germs on eating and drinking utensils can be attained, as has been done in the case of milk and ; water supplies, if the simple and 1 inexpensive principle of sanitation sanita-tion be intelligently applied. If, through public health edu- cation, sanitary consciousness can be inspired, many of our most ! serious and far-reaching prob-, prob-, lems of this nature will be great- ly improved. Insist on sanitary service with disposable paper or j utensils. Patronize only establishments establish-ments offering such service, ad- vises Mr. Walter, santitarian of health district No. 4 of the Utah state board of health. j i Proper Cleaning I Of Utensils Will Promote Health BY DR. LLOYD M. FARNEIl Disease prevention is the prevention pre-vention of transmission, not only from the sick patient, who is usually under competent medical care, but from the always present healthy carrier. Saliva-borne in-' fections may be spread through several channels. Important among these are food, air and eating eat-ing utensils. Practical measures can be applied by health officials to prevent transmission of disease dis-ease by food and eating utensils . only when proprietors of public eating and drinking establishments establish-ments and food handling places cooperate. The problem of such protection lies in the field o2 hygiene and sanitation and will remain a problem prob-lem until it fc-ecomes definitely recognized by the majority that the saliva of a tuberculin patient contaminates utensils, that streptococcus strep-tococcus and pneumococcus carriers car-riers contaminate their utensils and that carriers of other saliva- : |