AMERICA'S WAR WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 July 1916, Page 15

AMERICA'S WAR WOMEN.

LESSONS OX RT'C.K, BACTERIA, AND TOM-CATS. If you want long life and vitality— Don't keep late hours. Don't drink spirituous liquor. Han't lu-Kloct lo clonll your Hnser-nalls. Don'l sit in a crumped position. Don't work in a dark office. I'ou't buy garments which arc made In sweat-shop*. Such were the admonitlotis given to the students or the National Red Cross Training School for Nurses at the I'realdln, San Francisco, last mouth, where one hundred women fathered for their initial lesson in a two weeks' course of training in lirs-t old. The lesson \v;\s based on elementary hygieuc: and bugs and liu.toria. soiled linen and other means of infection were dLs.-usscd at length by the live nurses '.n charge of the squad division of twenty women each. L<~.id!ng! regular lives, ke.eplng gootl hours, eating plenty of 'wholesome fowl, and spending several hours n day in the fresh air aud sunshine and dally bathing were dwelt upon as being essential to health. "Kill the fly wherever you see It, for there nre sure to be 10,000 more by night." was another warning given to the ladles. nnd In spite of many "I'gh's" and "Oh's" they' were told that these methods were absolutely necessary. Boiling garments and kitchen utensils which need sterilising for at least twenty minutes was also recommended, and tho pupils wero told that simple washing does lieware the roving tom-cat. Cats and dogs and household pets carry infection in their fur. the pupils at the ■National Ited Cross Training School for Nurses at the Presidio were told, and special emphasis was laid on strolling Thomas.

"When your cat goes out in the evening. you d.w't know where he wanders." said Mrs. Keen.in. instructor of Squad P, fortucrly of the Navy Corps, "and whim lie comes back he cannot be properly bolliM so a.< tn Insure the household against germs and bacteria."