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Show DISEASE AND DIRT ARE TWINS Filth in Streets May Cause Your Death, So Help as Much as You Can to Clean Town. See That the Children Wash Hands and Face Before Eating and Fight Flies, for They're Pestilent. By DR. A. S. BARNES. Dirt and disease are apt to go together, to-gether, but until lately no one knew why. Today we know that dirt and disease often are closely connected, because dirt generally is not merely dead earth, but rather a kind of living liv-ing earth, crowded with unseen and almost countless germs of microbes, some of which are dangerous, and even deadly. Dirty streets are dangerous because the dirt in this case may cling to shoes or other articles of footwear and be carried from the streets into houses where, either as fresh dirt or more often as dry dirt (dust), it may find its way to foods or other articles, which either enter or touch the mouths of members of the household. Street dust also is dangerous when dried up or pulverized or turned into dust which may be readily lifted and blown about, thus finding its way perhaps per-haps directly into the mouths of hu man beings or through cracks or crevices or open doors and windows into human habitations, and finally into human bodies, with articles ol food or drink. Dust Causes Many Diseases. The connection between street dust nnd a number of diseases now is clearly clear-ly established. It is claimed that out of 46 experiments on animals, the ;germs contained in city and dust caused infectious diseases in 32 cases. Dust may so lower the vitality ol 'the mucous membranes by producing an irritated condition of the respiratory respira-tory organs that the development of disease is made easy from the germs deposited thereon. Street dust consists of ashes, ground-up steel, iron, stone and as-phaltum as-phaltum ; house and store sweepings, pollens of plants, excrements of horsos, dogs and birds, dried sputa, dead pulverized insects, pulverized earth, plaster and cement, earth from street excavations, soot from chimneys, debris from fruit stands, garbage and even human excrements, which in crowded regions frequently are voided by children or adults in alleys and ill-lighted ill-lighted streets. This filth is being whirled into our faces by the wind, by motor and street cars and other vehicles, while we walk or drive ; into our homes, offices, factories, fac-tories, theaters, churches and stores where meats, fish, fruit, vegetables, breadstuffs, cake, pastry, candies, confectionery, con-fectionery, etc., form a final resting place for this germ-laden filth. It also settles on walls, carpets, curtains, clothes, and then is set freshly into circulation with each and every dusting dust-ing and sweeping. Germs Plentiful in Food. It is still easier to understand why water which contains dirt or excreta may be very dangerous, because in no way are the germs of disease more readily taken into tiie human body than with iood and drink. Dirty milk is dmigerous because the dirt most often found in milk is manure ma-nure or else dirt from dirty barns, or dirty utensils, or dirty milkmen who have handled the milk with dirty hands. Dirty hands are dangerous, as human hands so very readily almost everywhere, .and thus only too easily, become dirty children, for example, ex-ample, have soiled their hands, may perhaps the next minute put their fingers fin-gers upon their faces or into their mouths, and thus carry dirt, and with that the germs of disease directly into the body itself. Frequent washing of the hands is a great sanitary safeguard. safe-guard. Keep Streets Clean. This dirt menace and nuisance Is preventable not only in the streets, but likewise in our living and working work-ing places. Much., house dust pollution pollu-tion may bo avoided if the original street dust were removed or allayed. The remedy for abating street dust in cities is thorough flushing of streets with large amounts of water. In order to make street sprinkling effective, it either should be sufiiciently abundant abun-dant to wash the dirt away into the sewers, or if moderate amounts of water are used, then it becomes imperative im-perative to put in the water some suitable suit-able disinfectant. Small towns should clean streets of loose dirt, pack undersoil with roller and oil carefully with heavy oil. With a better insight into the dangers dan-gers from dust, a real live interest is awakening. Education has been telling, tell-ing, methods are improving, the public pub-lic has awakened to the dangers from dust and filth. Every person should do his part to assist in the eradication eradica-tion of disease from these dangerous sources. Dust then is not by any means or in tiie main a mere nuisance and source of public discomfort, but perforce per-force a menace and direct public danger dan-ger of deadly potentiality. |