Show tuberculosis AND sanitation the question of tho effect of certain occupations on disease has also been carefully investigated hi franco it has been found that those trades that bring ono into contact with dust getiers me tiers a sieres arc especially ally dangerous professor land guzys investigations among policemen and postal employed emp loyes both of whom have also very offices indeed tho public complaints against the impure air in in paris arc most frequent and also among laundry workers have aled a dig astroga condition of affairs also among workmen carefully kept under observation by professor land auzy consisting of carpenters joiners floor layers and packers all living under practically the same conditions tho mortality from tuberculosis amounted to more than 30 per cent laundry workers however were found to bo the most seriously affected from statistics made at ballau court boulogne etc districts in the neighborhood of paris whore laundries abound the mortality from tuberculosis reached the alarming total of 75 per cent so deadly Is the handling of indi scrim inato soiled that women buc cumb after an average of fifteen years while men last from eighteen to awen tyone ty one years this surely shows the need of certain precautions such as special bags for the collection of soiled linen ot persons affected with tuberculosis so thai the contents could bo dis infected before being handled in the usual way the paris bakers a few days ago formed an organization for the im provement pro of the unsanitary conditions under which they have to work it is stated authoritatively that de der r spite tho governmental inspection of bakeries and tho most modern hygienic apparatus out bakers in paris gutter irom tuberculosis this state of affairs is not only distressing to the workers but a source of danger to the consumer the bread etc A professional bakers school has consequently been opened to educate the men to practice hygienic methods consular report |