COLDS—AND MANNERS
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—Old-fashioned good manners may be considered out of date nowadays, but they have at least something to recommend them from the point of public welfare. In the tram the other day were no less than five people with bad colds, all of whom
were coughing as hard as they could with their mouths wide open. Being a cold day, it was easy to see how far their breath travelled. If we cannot in the old-fashioned idea of courtesy hold our hands in front of our mouths when coughing, at least for the sake of hygienic principles, and prevention of spread of disease, it should be done. What chance has anyone of keeping fit between a cross current of five charges of germs at once?—l am, etc..
MICROBES
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 15, 18 July 1939, Page 8
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