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Show YOUR HEALTH OY OR. B. H BISHOP. I e VKXTITjATION A few week ago a nurse from a board of health .is railed to examine the children in a township school. It i Was reported by the teachers that children wer suffering from sor throats or developing contagious disease. dis-ease. A thorough Inspection of the nosc3 and throats of the children revealed greatlv reddoned and thickened mucous mu-cous membrane, but no sign of contagion. con-tagion. The cause of these con-Iditlons con-Iditlons was la'.er found to be tightly I fastened down windows and a large I hot sto in a small room Nothing can contribute more rapidly rap-idly to th lowering of resistance; than sottremely high tern pen 'ur and poor vontilation. The modern artificial system of i ventilation so Widely used in larger' .school buildings frequently falls to ! fall undet the true definition Of ventilation ven-tilation Most of these systems de-' 1 mand that no one open a window and let In some real fresh air- Tests have beon made again and ! again which conclusively prove that ihlldren enjoy better health and make greater progress when they have open window ventilation Vendors of thee ventilating systems sys-tems claim that such sytems keep the rooms warm. This is true. In rnot cases the keep the rooms too warm. The temperature of a room should never exceed 68 degree Fahrenheit. Growth Is not stimulated stimulat-ed by heat. Inhabitants of temperate SOUS always have led the world la every field of progress. |