Show TUB luniL HAtiUKIi Bloc the custom el supplying office towels from a general depot came Into ute tho alleged Increase of skin diseases dis-eases has attracted attention leadlnRphytlclanain the Eatrand boards of health are urjed to give the matter careful consideration The danger to which persona in offices and nbo frequented public baths were exposed ex-posed were discovered it Is said by aNew a-New York physician who had a case of 1 Infectious disease for which he could not account The doctor was curious attatboBourcoof Ibo Infection lie learced that lu Ibo same olllco where his patient was employed was janitor who was tuflnrluit from the sent die ease lie dropped In at the ome one day and secured the soiled towels In which was found a flourishing colony of bacilli ot the tort he was seeking Tills wae au Incentive to further research re-search and the clean towels were examined ex-amined These were furnished by a I compacy that supplied thousands of towels all over the city Half a dczeu were examined with no results betonll a tw liarmluia microbes but later a very Innocentlooking clean white one WAR found lo I be a virltable hotbed ol disease germs of the most horrible description VVfieu the Inquiry In-quiry proceeded at to why this should be II was found that very many towels Mere turned lu at the laundry with tcarcely mi appearance of t toll about UHiii These Were sometimes merely ruu througa SOAP Buds rluted dried and mongled In one costs a Irlnlu clap of pimples was traceable to the use of one of Ibisa towels whin the body waa heated and the face moist with perspiration From these cacti a general Investigation dcvcl oed luoue came a towel showing avery a-very blight stalu not enough to clause the casual observer to think ol Investigating IIwo the object of bueplciou to a vrotoopltt The subt was out out and subjected to the culture cul-ture prcctti as soon as II 1 Cm la contract con-tract with moisture the spot which had been Ironed down moth and fli swelled to considerable proportions and woe found to ajiitalu a large uuui bet of dangerous microbes Anise It baa gone through a delta of Inquiries rile Thole Investigation develops one thing however namely that wto e the towels ncelvo a thorough wool Ing at the laundry Ihe microbes do not ai pear Ills only where neglect 1 of tins t Important part Is allowed hence aboard a-board of health that required a thorough washing of rubllolyuied towels would be an effective bir against tnedaniter pointed out |