Identifier: annalsofhygiene1188penn (find matches)
Title: Annals of hygiene
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. State Board of Health
Subjects: Hygiene Public Health
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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rwise, the UnitedStates will be fully justified in takingthe matter out of her hands altogether,and that shortly. QUERIES AND REPLIES. We wish this journal to be a mediumfor the interchange of ideas and sug-gestions between its readers. Hencewe will be pleased to have our readersask questions in relation to hygiene,personal or public. These queries willalways be answered by those thor-oughly competent to do so. THE ANNALS OF HYGIENE. 335 THAT EASCALLY PLUMBER. It is not uncommon for those whosecure contracts for the plumbing anddraining of cheap houses, to buy what inferior, either by fracture or by beingmis-shapen, oval when they should beround or vice versa. Bach such defectwill allow a leakage and the formationof a cess-pool at the faulty point. Indrains, as in chains, the value of thewhole drain is determined by the valueof its weakest point, and, if at theweakest point there is a leakage,the whole drain may be worthlessand disastrous. The remedy con-sists in having your eyes open
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arejknown ^Seconds, that is tubes and seeing that your contractor doesor pipes that arc cheap because they are not palm « Seconds off on you. 336 THE ANNALS OF HYGIENE. HOW TO GEOW STRONG. Of course it is not every one who canfind the time to do as does FrankHearld, the prize fighter, when train-ing for a fight. But, taking his courseas a model, we would say that thenearer one approaches to it the strongerand healthier will he be. He rises at 5 a.m. and walks five milesleisurely, and on his return partakes ofbreakfast, which consists of either beef-steak, or mutton chops, boiled eggs, drytoast, and tea. After a rest of thirtyminutes, he goes to an artificial trackand runs 150 yards at the top of hisspeed. This feat he accomplishes tentimes at intervals. He then returns tohis impromptu gymnasium and is thor-oughly rubbed down, and then goesinto the sea and remains for sixty min-utes. He runs back to the bathing-house and is again rubbed down untilhis fleshes the color of a full ripe p

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