Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-07-19 | Page 23 | Purity of Water and Milk Most Essential in Hot Weather

1 z HEA HEALTH TH IN HOT WEATHER P Purity r fy of Water and aid Milk Most I 1 Essential in Hot Hoi VI Weather eather i V w By DR MORRIS S FISHBEIN Editor Journal of th the American Medical Medical Association and a the Health Magazine Ever since men began bean to put two and two tog together and ther anti amI make an anh- anh tn thing from one no to five ns os U the e ans- ans there thele have been strange notions no no- regarding the effects of at weather cather on health and on disease J Even EYen en Noah 1 Webster who wrote the wrote rote a t two volume work on the relationship of ot weather er to disease People talk about healthy weather er and unhealthy weather without having a very ery cleat clear idea of just which Is which The epidemiologists and the Hie meteorologists and the statisticians get set somewhere om in this matter matter matter-by by br keeping exact records rec rec- records records of changes in the weather and amI disease and death rates but even here It ft Is necessary to take Into account other factors such us as movements of ot tho the population and of ot the insects that carry disease and ana ando o of ot the t types p s' s of food eaten and o of ot the Uie effects of ot various arious temperatures and moistures moistures' on tho the growth of oC germs gelms Because of or some of th the factors I that have been mentioned typhoid ever fC occurs occurs most fl frequently in inthe tho summer anc and early fall During the summer people drink more than J hi winter sinter and the they are careless about the source of ot the tho water or milk or other erris be beverages s 's tJ that at the tiie they drink Inthe In the tho warm weather r the germs multiply multiply multi multi- ply more rapidly In the contaminated ed cd fluids S Investigations made b by the na national national na- na research re council showed ved that tho the highest hh death rates occurred In New ew York City on the thc coldest days dUys the least on days days' When hen tho the temperature tem tern t wn was 60 degrees and 75 degrees F F. and that the mortality mortal mortal- ity rises when tho the temperature be begins bri- bri gins Ins to go much n above oy 75 de degrees rees F F. The effects pt of oC severe ere weather are seen a few da days s 's after aUer It occurs Inthe in inthe th the form torm of ot pneumonia bronchitis and other diseases of oC the respiratory respiratory tory tract No doubt much of of this increased se seIn S In Incidence is due to the lowering of ot resistance that comes cornes with exposure exposure expo exp sure Eure but a great deal ot It Is also duo to the toe together that takes place in he the cold weather and to the spread ad of ot the germs through the secretions that have ha been men nen honed