Avoid Pneumonia

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 17, 1912

THE Chicago department of health calls attention to the fact that pneumonia is a dirty-air disease. People die from pneumonia when cold weather comes not because the weather is cold, but because they refuse to ventilate their houses and work places. They will not die from pneumonia if they will only let fresh, pure air into their homes. “Ventilate, but don’t hibernate” is the slogan of the health department. It points out that it is better and cheaper to pay for fuel than for sickness and death. In the living-rooms one window can be raised a trifle at the bottom and another lowered a little from the top. All bedrooms should be thoroughly aired for an hour or more every morning, and no bedroom is big enough to sleep in with all the windows closed.—Selected.