HOW TO KEEP WELL

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 904, 22 February 1930, Page 23

HOW TO KEEP WELL

A LIST OF “DONT’S” NEVER FLIRT WITH DEATH Several ’don’ts,” promulgated by the Indiana Board of Health, are quoted with approval by Dr. W. A. Evans in his “How to Keep Well” column in the “Chicago Tribune.” He adds a number of bis own, and the list then runs as follows; 1. Don’t flirt with death by running your automobile engine in a closed garage. Carbon-monoxide gas lias' been aptly called “the invisible death.” 2. Don’t skin or dress wild rabbits without wearing rubber gloves. Rabbits may have tularemia, and you may become infected with the disease. 3. Don’t be afraid to eat rabbit meat that has been thoroughly cooked, because thorough cooking destroys the infection.

4. Don’t forget there are several sources of carbon-monoxide poisoning, such as leaks in gas mains and from stoves.

5. Don't think a gas leakage that is all right when the windows are open is safe when they are closed. 6. Don’t drink raw milk lest you contract undulant fever, tuberculosis, or some other disease. 7. Don’t eat raw meat, including raw fish, lest you contract trichinosis or some form of tapeworn. 8. Don’t be afraid of properly heated milk or properly cooked meat. 9. Don't forget that the winter is the sickly season. • * 10. Don't use common drinkingcups and towels in the winter months.

11. Don't swap breath with strangers.

12. Don't expose yourself to people who have colds, coughs, or sore throats. 13. Don't sit near a person who coughs, sneezes, or blows his nose. 14. Don't stay in a hall or room if the occupants are coughing. 15. Don't fail to exercise out-of-doors in cold weather. 16. Don't fail to get out into the winter sunshine whenever there is any available. 17. Don’t neglect a common cold, since pneumonia or sinus trouble may result. IS. Don t call typhoid fever winter cholera or intestinal flu.