| Show THE TOWEL DANGER since the custom of supplying office towels from a general depot came into use ire the alleged increase ot of skin akin dig eases thereby has bae attracted attention from lead leading log physicians to in the boards of health are urged to give the matter careful consideration the danger to which persons persona to la offices ancl ana who ho frequented public bathe were exposed were discovered it to ie raid by R now new york physician who had bad a oaie case of infectious disease for which he could bouli not account the doctor was as ai to the source of the he learned that in the same office where his bib patient was employed waa a janitor janito jr who was waa suffering from the same dle dla ease he dropped in at the office one day and secured the soiled boiled ta III which was wag found a flourishing colony of bacilli of the sort eort be was waa seeking eking ee this was an incentive to further re search and the clean towels were examined these were furnished by a oom company pary that supplied thousands anif ancS of towels all over the city halt half in dozen were examined with no beyond a few harmless harm leas microbes mic robes but bat later a very innocent looking oleada white one was waa found to be a veritable hotbed of disease germs germi of the most moat horrible description when the inquiry proceeded as to why this should Us be it was fou found nd that very many towels were turned tamed in at the laundry with scarcely Boar oely an aim appearance of oil eoll bout about them those these were sometimes merely run through soap suds rinsed dried i 4 and wangled mangled in 10 one case a profuse crop of pimples was wag traceable to aae of on one of these theae towels when the body was waa heated and the face insist with perspiration prom from these caw cases a general investigation developed op in one case a towel showing a very light blight stain not enough to cause amuse the casual observer to think ot 0 investigating it was wag the object ol of suspicion to a the spot WM was eat cut out and subjected to the culture process as 88 boon as it came in con tract with moistures moisture the spot which bad been ironed down smooth and flat fiat welled to considerable proportions ud wag waa found fludd to contain a large dumber of dangerous danger oua microbes mic robes and so ao it lime baa gone through a series of inquiries the whole investigation develops deve lopa one ene bing however namely that mat where the towels receive a thorough borough wash washing ina at the laundry the microbes mic robes do not appear it la Is only where neglect of this his important putt part to IB allowed hence a board baird of health that required a thorough thoro ugh washing of publicly used towels would be RD an effective bat bar the danger pointed out |
