The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

THE HEALTH BULLETIN. 271"have quoted the best prices on suchcans.If other companies care to quoteprices on cans, or be mentioned in thisconnection in correspondence and inthe Health Bulletin hereafter, weshould be glad to hear from them.A GOOD FORM OF PRIVY CAN.These cans should b'- 14 inches highby 14 inches across. The lid should fitdown into the can U to 2 inches.Such cans m-ide of 26 gauge galvanizediron without lids, cost about50 cents each in hundred lots.Authorities of citiesand towns contemplatinginstalling sanitary priviesshould also write the State Board ofHealth for their special bulletin onthe sanitary privy, which containssuggested ordinances requiring the useof sewers where water and sewer connectionsare possible, and also the useof sanitary privies where such connectionsare not possible.Good Eyes PayA San Francisco school teacher ha 1as one of her pupils a boy that wasboth stupid and incorrigible. H3played hookey, lied like a trooper andresisted all efforts to give him instructionof any kind. Finally the teachernoticed that the boy's eyes were bad,and sent a note to his parents to havethem attended to. No attention waspaid to the teacher's request and theboy grew more and more refractoryand unmanageable. Finally the teachertook him to an oculist and had hiseyes fitted with proper glasses. Th^transformation in the boy's mannerand habits was little short of marvelous.He seemed for the first time tob3 able to see things right. He soonbecame one of the brightest and bestpupils in the school, standing at thehead of all his classes. It was foundthat because of defective vision it hadbeen next to impossible for him to seeprint at all, and that his ludicrous attemptsto answer questions in his recitationsexcited the laughter and ridiculeof his classmates, with the naturalresult that he hated school andeverything connected with it. Butwhen his vision was restored he becamea changed boy, voluntarily givingup bad habits and soon winningthe reputation of being one of the moststudious and best behaved boys in theschool—and one pair of glasses savedthe boy.Stand Up StraightTuberculosisand AvoidThe first .essential in the avoidanceof tuberculosis of the lungs, or consumption,is to keep the lungs strong,so that if the germs are breathed theycan do no harm. One of the mostimportant things in keeping thelungs strong is to keep the chest wideopen so that the lungs can be properlyused. If the body is drooped orstoops, or if the shoulders are allowedto drag forward (round shoulders), orif the head is carried forward insteadof well back over the shoulders, thechest must be flattened, the breathingmust be shallow, and the lungs,not being freely used, become weak.It is in this type of chest that tuberculosisusually begins. The consumptiveis usually narrow-chested, withdrooped shoulders and with the headcraned forward. "While the developmentof a strong, well-formed chest isone of the most important factors inpreventing tuberculosis, the same