Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-01-26 | Page 4 | Pure Air

PURE AIR. The bulletin issued by the state board of health, urging people to seek fresh air and thoroughly ventilate their homes, is excellent advice such as this paper often has given. "During the season of cold weather," sajs the bulletin, "the gospel of fresh air night and day should everywhere be preached and practiced, contrary to the custom ot tightly closing dwellings dwel-lings and by every possible means excluding ex-cluding It. Dread of fresh air is more largely responsible for the spread of communicable disease than any other one factor. In the home and in the school this fact should be recognized, and health officers should in every way promote its recognition. It is their special duty to ascertain the facilities fa-cilities for ventilation In school buildings build-ings and to enforce its efficiency. Proper ventilation in all dwellings, schools and other buildings would prevent pre-vent 50 per cent of the deaths trom pneumonia and other communicable diseases. Fresh air can harm no one, and it is the most economical air that can be breathed, whatever may be the price of coal. It is also the best known health Insurance policy." More attention should be given to ventilating a home In winter than at any other season of the year. With closed doors and fires consuming the oxygen of tho air and throwing off noxious gases, the rooms soon become filled with air unfit to be drawn Into the lungs. A house can be ventilated without causing heavy air currents or draughts. By opening wide to the outdoor air one room at a time, tho whole house can be aired without endangering any one, even an Invalid, to unfavorable influences. It is more essential to have pure air In y our homes than to have warm rooms.