Show AS TO HEALTH 1 rm I 1 IN THE HOME through last weeks advocate the board of health of price served notice to citizens and property owners generally to clean up their premises not only that the town tonii shall present a better appe arance but that the danger from disease may be lessened in our midst this action of the health board is timely and it la to hoped all will be governed by the orders ghen glen without having to resort to harsh measures lately the colorado state medical association in an article prepared by its members on sanitation in the home presented the fol following loNing as a guide which ought to proe prone of interest to this community practically all acute diseases disease are contagious or infectious some mildly and others intensely so proper imitation s Is first in importance to t 0 prevent contracting disease modify its severity ani duplications and pro protect hect rum rom the infection of others in the home or the community 13 sanitation Is meant establishing and maintaining surrounding condl eions that make health easy and disease difficult it has especially to do w with ith drai drainage nige fresh air pure water and sunlight of the rules that apply to buildings out ingi corrals sN swamps amps streets and alleys need but little changing to be applicable in the home the best everyday method to clean a home Is with water and soap the best everyday method to fumigate a house Is with pure air steep keep out flies they ire the greatest gern geri ger n i carriers in the wold cald with kith the ble exception of f the plush in a pt pullan itan car sunshine in every possible corner combi combines to make the house a it ht fit place in which aich to live carpets draperies ind unnecessary furniture make incomplete the tile ap if f water ater and soap fresh air and sunshine eliminate the tile carpet wherever consistent and always in I 1 n the sick room beware bea are of second secondhand band sofas mattresses and bedding rugs should be washable As well as draperies dark closets and clothes presses are favorable lodging places for disease germs from former sickness in the house to guard against protecting such infection in the house extra care Is necessary to clean ventilate and when necessary to f fumigate unil gate these nut out of the way ay places if you ile me in an old house that cannot be reconstructed to suit sult modern methods of ventilation and sanitary plumbing then see that there Is provision for drying and airing laundry and bedding in the aard ard where the sun still has opportunity see that there Is a place to dispose of dash dishwater aaker slops and other refuse where it will be disinfected infected dis burled buried or disposed of in a manner not contafi bating our own oven or our neighbors premises an individual cesspool in the house or a foul slimy sloppily slop stopp pill tit Is n fine boarding house for disease germs together with the ties that dodge in in spite of the screens in building a new home employ architects and plumbers who are familiar with the tile best and most economical methods of escaping the oe need of doctors and anti toxins by proper ventilation and plumbing As will be noted the two to great essentials are sunshine and fresh air then comes the exclusion lies A home where the fresh air does not dr cir ciliate freely and where there Is not an airing of the tile rooms at least once a day Is a place where there baill be sickness if the occupants are not un usually rugged in constitution and equipped to throw oft off the attacks of the germs ge ains of disease files flies are the conveyors of disease and though a home have fresh air and sunshine but affords easy ingress to filer there will be great danger from typhoid and other filth diseases only within the last few years have the people generally been made to realize the disease spreading power of 0 the common housefly though warned arned the public has been slow to guard against the invasion of homes by flies in the summer time eventually all careful housekeepers will be as scrupulous in excluding flies tiles as in keeping their lace curtains stainless from dist di st and dirt |