Identifier: healthylivin01wins (find matches)
Title: Healthy living
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957
Subjects: Health
Publisher: New York and Chicago, Charles E. Merrill company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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hat made it possible to build it was the knowledge ofhow to control yellow fever and malaria. Other Insect Bearers of Disease.—There are manyother insects which may spread the germs of dis-ease, particularly inthe warm countries ofthe Tropics. In thetrenches and in over-crowded army camps,there are sometimesdiseases caused by lice—diseases which usedto be very commoneverywhere in oldtimes, when peopledid not keep as cleanas they do nowa-days. It is importantthat the greatest careshould be taken al-ways to keep the headand body and clothes ^^- 7i.-WiUiam Crawford Gorgas,1 fli f fV, conqueror of yellow fever and malaria at Panama; Surgeon Gen- dangerous insects may eral of the United States army. not find a chance to develop. How Children can Help to Fight the Mosquito andthe Fly.—Children can do many things to help in thefight against the mosquito and the fly. Every goodcitizen is anxious to rid his neighborhood of these pests,but older people are often too busy to hunt about and
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I go HEALTHY LIVING find out where their breeding places are. Boys andgirls, with a little help from their teacher or some otherolder person, can soon learn to recognize fly maggotsand mosquito wigglers. Then they can organize scout-ing parties to find the manure piles and rubbish heapswhere the flies are developing, and the pools and rain bar-rels and other places from which the mosquitoes come. If Boy Scouts or other groups of children will huntout the insect pests in this way and report to theirscoutmaster or parents or teachers where the troublelies, the breeding places can often be done away withand the whole neighborhood made pleasanter and saferto live in. An Evening Talk.—One evening in midsummerMrs. Mosquito was sitting on the wall of the barn,just under the eaves where it is warm and pleasant.All at once there was a great buzzing, and Mrs. Flycame flying along and settled down beside her, verymuch hurried and out of breath. Good evening, my dear. You seem a little flus-ter

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