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Page Sixteen THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER [Thursday, January 23, 1913. Health Notes BIRTHS AND DEATHS TO BE REG ISTERED. House and Senate Introduce Bills to This End—Some of the Provis ions. The Model Statistics Law has just been introduced in the Legislature. Representaive Williams, of Bun- come, introduced it in the House, and Senator Hobgood, of Guilford, intro duced it in the Senate. Within recent years a number of States have adopt ed substantially the same law on vital statistics. Each year improvements are made in this law until very re cently it has become known as the Model Law. The bills now before the Legislature represent the 1913 edi tion of this Model Law, so, if passed, North Carolina can boast of the best vital statistics law in the country. Some of the provisions of the bill are that all births and deaths occur ring in the State shall be registered. In the case of deaths the name, age, sex, color, conjugal condition, occu pation, cause of death, educational at tainments, etc., are required. This information will enable State and lo cal health officers to combat disease; it will settle many legal questions, point out the healthy and unhealthy places, prevent crimes, etc. In the case of births, the name, sex, color, etc., are required, besides valuable statistical data about the parents. Such records will soon be invaluable FRESH AIR INDOORS. It is important that indoor work ers have good air. Outdoor workers can get it without trouble, but indoor workers are compelled to rely upon ventilation. By ventilation we mean some arrangement or device whereby fresh outdoor air is admitted into the room and the bad air taken out. The best ventilation cannot make the in door conditions quite as good as they are in the big outdoors, for the rea son that indoors your air supply is limited to the size of the room. The important thing in a work room is to have a constant supply of fresh air coming in and the bad air going out. This will keep up a good circulation, and should give you a good, safe room in which to work. There is this difference between food aid air, and that is, the air we breathe is invisible, so that we can not use our eyes to tell whether it is good or bad; with food we can tell, usually, by looking at it, whether it is clean and wholesome. Unfortunately, we cannot see dirty air as we can dirty food. And be cause this is true, most people are unmindful of the kind of air they breathe, though they may be ever so nice and particular as to the kind of food they eat. We may, and many of us do, over eat, but very few persons ever over breathe. In other words, we may get I more food than is good for us, but it for legal purposes; they will prevent I difficult for any of us to violation of child labor laws and I much good air. school laws and do much to prevent child marriages besides directly put ting an end to much needless blind ness, and furnishing information of inestimable value for workers and students of race questions, social re forms, etc. In fact, if this bill is passed it will doubtless prove one of When examinations of little patches of common roller towels less than a half-inch square show 'the presence of i colon bacilli in one-fourth of the ex aminations, in all probability a man never escapes rubbing some more or less sewage-laden toweling over his the most important and far-reaching I hands every time he uses laws enacted by this session of the I these relics of false economy. Legislature. | Colon bacilli, as the name implies, are bacteria from the colon or intes- , , tlnal tract. It is easy to see the fre- ROLLER TOWELS MUST GO. quent and easy mode of infection. A few years ago, Kansas banished This pollution goes from closets to roller towels. Many of us laughed | hands and then to towels, at the idea then, but now other It really seems that there are some good grounds for much of the com- States, inter - State transportation companies, many hotels and other in stitutions have followed suit. Not I Plaint arising all over the State long ago some scientists made an ex-1 against the deplorable conditions of amination of some of the ordinary some of our less carefully managed roller towles, such as are found in cheap hotels, railroad stations and other public places. These tests showed a bacterial count in some instances as high as one and one- third million bacteria to an area one- third of a square inch in extent. The tests further showed that in 26 per cent of the towels examined baccil- lus coli was found. This is the germ which shows that water or milk has been contaminated \^th excreta, and whenever found it serves as warning that typhoid fever is lurking near. Thousands of skin scales were found on each towel, showing how the skin rubs off in minute particles whenever hotels, restaurants and lodging-] houses. The public has gotten past j the roller towel stage of civilization, and now they demand some really good hotel inspection throughout the State. A few people freeze to death; many more die in over-heated rooms. OAICLEY, LOCAL (TENNESSEE). Mr. Editor:—I will write a few words in regard to our Local. We are in a very progressive state; taka in members at almost every meeting. We set a free public dinner Saturday, December 14, which gave our local the face and hands are wiped thor- I a starter. Took in seven that day. oughly. While no actual disease j Will have another supper next Satur- germs were found in the scales, it is j day night. These dinners don’t cost easily seen how skin diseases might I us very much and they are worth a. ■ be carried in this manner. One man | great deal. What we need to do is in Kansas has lost one eye and an other has been permanently impaired on account of infection traced direct-1 ly to the roller towel in hotels. A case of small-pox has been traced to a towel of this kind in a hotel. The small-pox germs were found on the | towel. It demonstrated how serious sores might result if a cut finger was rubbed on the towels. They might cause light cases of blood poisoning. Colds are not caught from fresh air, but from stuffy air. to get up all the enthusiasm pos sible and let outsiders know we mean business. We have a warehouse at Living ston, this county, (Overton), and we mean to have branch houses over the county soon. Please send me sam'- pie copies of your paper. I would like to hear from other secretaries and if I see this in print I may come again. So for fear this reaches the waste basket, I will ring off. W. M. PRYOR, Secretary Oakley Local, No. 1441, Oakley, Tenn., Jan. 15. Be^ for Truck or Garden. Mixson’s High grade seeds grow largest crops and make more profits for you. Actual tests show they are best for Southern soils. Our large stock includes all varieties of Beans, Cucumbers, Cabbage, Corn, Sorghum, Cotton, etc. Special prices on large orders. Low freight rates. Don’t fail to write for catalog and prices on MIX- SON’S HIGH GRADE SEEDS to-day, before you forget it. W. H. MIXSON SEED CO. CHAJLLESTON, S. C. e Jonannet’s Frost Proof Cabbage Plants Are known as the best to be had anywhere by thousands of experienced buyers, and are offered to you at prices LOW^ than you pay for common, inferior plants. WILL HAVE ALL VARIETIES. Plants tied in bunches of 25. PRICES: 75 cents for 500 lots; $1.00 per 1000; 5000 and over 85 cents per 1000. 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