| Show SOAP AND WATER HAILED AS MANS FIRMEST FRIEND public sanitation has ha 9 great victories to its credit in the control and prevention of disease and strides stride along these lines have beta been made in rapid manner within the last few years beliefs in charms and magic have disappeared and science Is producing more wonderful gifts for the modern world cleanliness and sanitation Is IB a health program sponsored in our public schools and the most important tool used to Is the small everyday piece of soap it Is just a little more than years ago that a french chemist evolved the chemistry of soap and made it a practical object of manufacture f today it Is one of the cheapest and most widely used necessities of dally daily life habits of cleanliness as taught in our schools today protect individual health and reduce the spread of disease in the pre soap age skin diseases and other forms of sickness prevailed in much larger numbers than today even the most cleanly person must come in contact with his environment and through this contact the skin gives lodging to extraneous microscopic cro living things this may may occur in taking hold of a street car strap or even in shaking hands with a friend nand hand to mouth infections are responsible for the spread of a large proportion of communicable disease especially of disease transmitted 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 with soap and water |
