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Show How to Ayoid Pneumonia. A sudden and startling increase both in Chicago Chi-cago and in New York of deaths from pneumonia and the appropriation in the latter city of $10, i; for the study of the disease draw attention to th approach of the season when pneumonia is mo- prevalent, says the Chicago Tribune. For the week A 1 ending the 17th instant, the number of deaths in Chicago from "the new captain of the men i f death" was SO per cent greater than for the corresponding cor-responding week a year ago. Pneumonia is the despair of the medical profusion. profu-sion. While the death rate from many other diseases dis-eases has been reduced, that of pneumonia bai steadily increased. While in lsuo pneumonia claimed four out of every 10,000 Chicagr.ans aic: consumption twenty-five, in 1900 twenty lives wcrq lost to pneumonia for every fifteen to consumption. consump-tion. Xot only is there no specific for pneumonia, but many people are to an extent in, the incipient stages of the disease without kuowing it. This ij due to the fact that the bacterium of pneumonia exists so commonly in the saliva of many health.? persons that it is considered "almost a normal inhabitant in-habitant of the upper part of the digestive tract.'1 During the six months of the coming winter more than 2,100 persons in this city, will become victims of pneumonia. Xobody will be immune from the summons of the death captain. It will 1 bo served upon the strong as well as upon the cak. But there are certain rules of living which will ! reduce one's liability to the disease. From th bulletins of the health department and from other -authoritative sources the following rules may In set down for observance : ; LV not overheat the house. Most people habitually dwell in apartments the temperature of which is from C to 10 degrees too high. Wear light underwear and heavy overcoat 3 rather than heavy underwear and light overcoats, 4 Avoid mingling with crowds when extremly f tired or when food has not been taken for n longer interval than usual. Avoid becomim-chilled becomim-chilled when overtired. . " ' . Admit intoall rooms where you Htc and work plenty of sunlight and fresh air Keep warm when indoors even if it is neces- ' sary to build fires in seasons when it is unusual to do so. Avoid indoor chill and dampness as much as possible. For this reason be careful to remove the chill- before moving into apartments freshly '; papered or calcimined. v Be careful during variable weather. Where '"5 therc is continual cold or constant warmth the dis- j ease is little known. If you have an attack of the grippe be un- f usually careful about your diet and about expos- ing yourself to the weather. Xc-glectcd colds develop de-velop into- pneumonia with startling rapidity. Take plenty of exercise in the sunlight and fresh air. As good nursing is practically the onlv cure for pneumonia, so good living is practical! v the only preventive. A |