HOW TO CATCH COLDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 862, 7 July 1910, Page 4

HOW TO CATCH COLDS.

School hygiene is one of the subjects which is now regarded as of prime importance in connection with school management by the Education Department (says the Melbourne Age). Recent experience in visiting schools has convinced the Director that the failure of the teacher to take advantage of the provision made for ventilation by opening windows, fanlights and air vents is as much responsible for the unhealthy atmospheric condition of schoolrooms as the entire absence of ventilating appliances. In some cases fanlights and ventilator flaps have been found nailed up ! But it does not appear to have struck anyone that the departmental offices supply quite as bad examples of the absence of ventilation and the presence of vitiated air as the school houses, until Dr. Harvey Sutton, one of the medical officers of the department made a round Qf inspection, and found in some of the offices atmospheric conditions that were quite sufficient to account for any decree of bad temper, ill health and incompetency among the occupants. In order to bring home to the members of the office staff the evils of unventilated rooms, Dr. Sutton invited them to a half hour’s lecture in the large board room of the Lands Department. The doctor took as his subject, “How to Catch Colds,’’ and as the heads of advice are of general application we give them below : Keep your windows shut. Avoid draughts as if they were a pestilence. Take no exercise between meals. Bathe seldom and in warm water.

Wear heavy flannels, chest pro;ectors, abdominal bandages, etc. Have no heat in your bedroom.

Never let anything keep you away from the church, theatre or parties in winter. Never go out of doors when it is windy, or rainy, or wet underfoot, or cold or hot, or looks as if it were going to be any of these. Be just as intimate and affectionate as possible with everyone you know who has a cold. Don’t neglect them on any account.