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Show SOAP AND WATER HAILED AS MAN'S FIRMEST FRIEND Public sanitation has great victories vic-tories to its credit in the control and prevention of disease, and strides along these lines have been made in rapid manner within the last few years. Beliefs in charms and magic have disappeared, and science is producing pro-ducing mure wonderful gifts for the l modern world. Cleanliness and sanitation san-itation is a health program sponsored spon-sored In our public schools, and the most important tool used is the small, everyday piece of soap. It is just a little more than 100 years ago that a French chemist evolved the chemistry of soap and made It a practical object of manufacture. manu-facture. Today it is one of the cheapest and most widely used necessities ne-cessities of daily life. Habits of cleanliness, as taught In our schools, today, protect individual health aud reduce the spread of disease. dis-ease. In the pre-soap age skin diseases dis-eases and other forms of sickness prevailed pre-vailed In much larger numbers than today. Even the most cleanly person must come in contact with his environment, environ-ment, nnd through this contact the skin gives lodging to extraneous microscopic mi-croscopic living things. This may occur in taking hold of a street car strap or even in slinking hands with a friend. Hand-to-mouth Infections are responsible for the spread of a large proportion of communicable disease, especially of disease transmitted trans-mitted through the nose and throat. But surrounded as is modern man with the means to cleanliness, it Is a simple matter to play safe by washing wash-ing with soap aud water. |