"FROZEN MITT" CAMPAIGN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 30 December 1922, Page 17

"FROZEN MITT" CAMPAIGN.

WAR DECLARED ON HANDSHAKING. The reformers are on tbe warpath to eliminate another danger, says the Pittsburg correspondent of the "Central News," and if they succeed the handshake will in I a few years have gone the way of the! roller towel, the family toothbrush, aud j the Insanitary drinking cup. . Prominent doctors agree that hand-shak-ing is not only a carrier of disease germs, hut Is extremely harmful to the nervous system. • I Dr. S. R. Hay thorn, until recently chair- 1 man of the Sanitation Committee of the Allegheny County Medical Society, when questioned on tbe subject, said:—"During the Influenza epidemic bulletins were put out by the United States public health service warning people against shakln'; hands. I think that handshaking is ver> bad during an epidemic. Although I do not think it a very serious menace ordinarily. It is probably a bad practice. No person with tuberculosis ought to shake hands." General handshaking was condemned bj Miss Nan L. Dorsey. superintendent of the rubllc H*ealth Nursing Association. "While there are a great many factors to be considered, and I think in some lie ' stances, such as the borne, handshaking is all right, indiscriminate handshaking is very bad," she said. "I have been told that President Bardlng and the late Theodore ■ i -Roosevelt had to have masseurs to manl-