KEEP THE WINDOWS OPEN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 47, 20 November 1918, Page 6

KEEP THE WINDOWS OPEN

Sir,—As . one of those who spent a couple of days helping Mr. Frascr m the noble task ho has undertaken in \\ Islington Central, may 1 bo permitted to proffer a little advice to patients as a, result of careful observation, after *\ house-to-house canvass of Block 1 i of \ that district. It is the simple dictum, "Keep the windows open." . Wherever this writer went and found the blinds flapping through wide, open windows the scourge was non-evident or very slight. Bui where the family were accustomed by the appearance of the houses to livo under, closed-window conditions, it, frequently ' happened the whole household was down. It does not give the greatest disinfectant known to science, fresh air, a chance to heal the present condition of affairs when people keen out the open air by pulling tho window down two inches, and coverin" even this meagre air space hv a blind, which is inst as effective m shuttin" out Nature's greatest healer and disinfectant. Everybody who is accustomed to raise a family under healthy conditions, and who has s«cn for 'h>mself'the housine conditions in some parts of Wellington Central, must he appalled,, but where people have, the dirty habit of" the closed window a pabice would he of no more use than a slum to,such. The doctors should tell the people candidly that this disease arises from foul air ' and may become imore virulent if foolish people try lo cheek its ravnr"S with the same poison. From mv obnervation the real (urn of the pnWenii'V for the better will come when *hc tout gases id breeds are released into Nature s »reat disinfecting chamber—not before.— Im ' etC ' : _— A>M- •