Show ADDRESS B BY Y MRS DR MILES MILES' On Diseases and School Hygiene Says Hygiene Says Girls Should Wear i a J Short Skirts and Quit Kissing Each Other Every woman teacher in the schools ls said Mrs Miles in a lecture Thursday afternoon should be compelled to to- tow w wear r ri i short skirts for forthe the long long- ones a are scavengers scavengers g gers rs of disease germs rn Mrs Miles also condemned the ha habit it among among girls of kissing each other for she said kissing is unhygienic in that it is isone one means of transmitting disease germs from one person to another As further precautions precautions' against the spreading of disease Mrs Miles Mile's said that that school-rooms school should have cuspidors and the practice of expectorating on the floor be punished as a misdemeanor that every pupil should have his own private drinking drinking drinking drink drink- ing cup and towel and should drink from froma a running tap and not from a bucket that slates should be banished from the schools the custom of cleaning them with spittle being a means of transmitting disease germs that every town should have a medical inspector for schools who should n not t only inspect school-rooms school as to their lighting h heating ventilating and sanitation sanitation sanitation sanita sanita- tion but who should also give instructions instructions c- c to teachers and pupils in sanitary science A great source source of the dise disease se germ is in unventilated cellers and unclean places of all sorts sorts Sc Scarlet fever g germs may be packed away with clothing for months before infecting others Children sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times are in attendance at school when in inthe inthe inthe the beginning stages of scarlet fever and whooping cough |