FRESH AIR AS HEALTH AID

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22414, 30 May 1938, Page 10

FRESH AIR AS HEALTH AID

UNDESERVED REPUTATION ADVICE ON COMBATING COLDS (KOIC OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, April 13. Many of the claims made for fresh air as a remedy for ills are false, according to Dr. C. Hoyle, assistant physician to King’s College Hospital and Brompton Hospital for Consumption, in a recent address to* the Royal Institute for Public Health. “The idea that, fresh air, as such, has any kind of miraculous effect in sustaining health or as a recuperative factor in illness outride of movement, temperature, and humidity is a pure fallacy,” he declared. “It is the change of scene, the relief from the daily round, the alternation of rest and exercise and pleasurable company that give to the ‘tresh air* of our holidays ah . altogether undeserved reputation.” , Dr. Hoyle was giving advice on how to combat the common cold. There were still many’ false notions about clothing, and many people encased themselves in layers of wool the moment the leaves began to fall, he said. Yet woman, who were less warmly clad than men, were less prone to pneumonia. Clothing should always be light, permeable to air, allow free evaporation from the skin, absorb moisture up to a point, and not cling to the skin when wet. The essential cause of colds was infection with a living virus, and there was no means of avoiding it except by living as a recluse. “All one can reasonably advise,” added Dr. Hoyle, “is that ■ those who contract a cold should, as far as possible, stay at home, preferably in one room for a day or two, taking great care not to sneeze or cough with unprotected nose and mouth.”

allow England to be free of European entanglements. A number of Germans fear the spread of the yellow races, partly for racial and partly for commercial considerations. For this reason, when the return of the colonies is mentioned, it is suggested that with Germany once more holding New Guinea and Samoa the white races would have another power on their side in the Pacific.

The average German regards the Englishman as a person who is quite a good friend when he can get what he wants from a pact or bargain, a id so long as his pocket is not at stake. In this respect the Englishman is placed second to the Jew as a grasping moneymaker, and frequently a German when talking about an Englishman will make a circular motion with a hand in the region of a coat pocket, to indicate that the English have everything and want more ' Anti-Semitism The ousting of the Jew is another fact taken for granted by the German. It is always pointed out that the Jews migrated from the ghettos of Poland and Russia, grasping and avaricious, and that they took a bath in Germany before passing on in civilised form' to the rest of Europe. Jews were disliked for monopolising the hospitals and the lawyers’ offices, and it is said that when one Jew obtained a position he secured others for 10 more of his race. To-day, in spite of the anti-Jewish campaign, many good Nazis regret that Jews still represerfc 10 per cent, of the lawyers in Berlin. Whatever the outside world may think of their action in Austria, the Germans as a whole are more than happy to follow Hitler’s lead. In the fifth year of the Nazi regime they have taken a grip with both hands on their new nationhood, and are content that in a national crisis no fewer than 5,000,000 men could be summoned, equipped, mobilised, and ready for action In six hours. “One Reich, one people,”, is their cry, and their new song:—

“Thus we shall go marching on Till the last man expire. To-day all Germany is To-morrow the world entire.’