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

272 THE HEALTH BULLETIiN^,thing is to be desired if the disease hasonce started. Not only should we livein the open, but we should stand upstraight and learn to "throw a bigchest," so that the lungs can growstrong and the fresh air be taken in.The runner, the singer, or any onewho is obliged to make sustained effortis taught to stand and sit with chesthigh so that the lungs can be used tothe best advantage, and if every onewould do the same thing there wouldbe less tuberculosis because ther^would be fewer weak lungs.Insist on Wrapped BreadIf you buy baker's bread, make akick if they don't give you brealalready wrapped at the bakery. Itcosts less to wrap it in wholesale fashionat the bakery while it is fresh thanit does for each grocer to hunt up astring and piece of paper every timehe sells a loaf. Furthermore, wrappedbread does not have an opportunity t)dry out and become stale nearly sorapidly as unwrapped bread. Thechief reason, however, for havingbread wrapped at the bakery is toavoid the contact with dust, dirt, flies,dirty hands, dirty baskets, and so on.People buy bread because it is awholesome, nutritious, easily digested,economical food. They are willing touse bread made outside their ownkitchens when they are satisfied thatthe process of making it is carried onunder conditions about as good asthose prevailing in their own kitchensunder their own eyes. The cordwoodway of distributing breadstacked up in a fly-abounding salesroom,stacked up in an open wagonstacked up on the arm of a deliveryboy, stacked upon the floor of the backporchuntil some one finds it andtakes it in—prevents many a womanfrom buying bakery bread, and itshould prevent more from doing so.Recently bacterial examinationswere made in Chicago of wrapped andunwrapped bread. Of the unwrappedbread it was found that at least 39 percent of the loaves had an average of14,000 bacteria on them. Such loaveswere classed as "dirty." Nearly 39per cent more of the loaves examinedshowed an average of at least 4.000bacteria and were classed as "fair";while but 27 per cent of the loavescould be called clean, with an averageof 2,500 bacteria.Of the wrapped bread, 45 per centwas found to average only 848 bacteria,and 55 per cent averaged only371 bacteria. In other words, accordingto the bacteria found, unwrappedbread has from seven to twenty timesas much dirt and filth on it as wrappedbread.Not Even AdvertisingPrinters' ink is the life and soul ofpatent medicine and other frauds.When once the newspapers and magazinesstop advertising these fakesabout four-fifths of the danger to thepublic will be removed.Vv'^eare just in receipt of a very significantletter as regards the effectiveway in which one fraud was successfullyprevented from advertising;namely, by showing it up to be so rottenthat papers and magazines didnot dare to advertise it. The followingletter is very brief and to thepoint:State Board of Health, Raleigh, N. C:Gentlemen:—You certainly did putthe quietus on the Oxypathor fraud Thave not seen their advertisement inany paper since your exposure in theBulletin—and I hope our church papersat least have been put to thinking.Fine work. Keep it up.Yours truly,Printers' ink is the life and soul ofpatent medicine and other frauds.When once the newspapers and magazinesstop advertising these fakesabout four-fifths of the danger to thepublic will be removed.