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Show DANGER OF SUMMER Chicago "Healthograms" Tell of Many Menacing Evils in City. Wash Vegetables, Don't Overfeed Baby and Watch Milk, Is Advice of City Physicians to Citizens Lower Death Rate. Advlco for tho feeding of now-born babies, warnings ngulnst Impuro milk and unclonn vegetables, and another box of literary pills In the rorm of tho ubiquitous "henlthogram" aro mingled In the lateBt report of the health department, de-partment, with the cheering Information Informa-tion that tho public health situation Is greatly Improved over the Inst rew weokB. In the week there woro 47 deaths less than the week beforo, tho death rate being lower than thnt of Inst year. The deaths frohi ncuto contagious con-tagious diseases bIiow a reduction of 50 per cent May, 1910, passed Into record with tho third highest death rate for tho month In lf years. Deaths from pneumonln wore more numerous than In any May for GO years, with tho exception of two. Tho reason for tho prevalence of pneumonia pneu-monia and the high mortality from tho impuro air dlseaso Is assigned by the health department to unseasonably cold weather. Here are some samples of tho latest output of tho henlthogram physician Which aro guaranteed to prevent mnny illnesses If read once and thought of twice a day. "No spit no consumption. 4 " ' "Summer tho tlmo to shun tnonta and tnko to vegetables, "An uncongenial occupation warps tho body and withers the soul. "To relieve Worry and sleeplessness tnko a bath hot followed by cold. "When you must drink, drink Adnm's nlo. Lake Michigan In full of It "Dirty milk Is bettor food for bacteria bac-teria than It Is for babies." Tho bulletin points out that n stomach stom-ach of tho child at birth holds only one ounco and warns against overfeeding. overfeed-ing. Artificial feeding Is to be avoided avoid-ed nnd not to be resorted to unless It Is absolutely necessary, the bulletin advises Investigation of a cose of typhoid fover In tho family of a wonlthy Chi-cagoan Chi-cagoan rosulted In tho discovery thnt tho dlsenBo had been contracted by eating rnw vegetables which had been washed by the farmer In a pool of dirty water Taking this caso ns an object losHon, the health department points out thnt all vegetables always should be washed In the kitchen. Under Un-der no other clrcumstancoH, says tho bulletin, should lettuce, colery, cab-bago, cab-bago, radishes and similar vegetables bo eaten raw. |
