YELLOW FEVER PASSES BY PRINTERS.

Grey River Argus, Volume 07, 7 January 1908, Page 4

YELLOW FEVER PASSES BY PRINTERS.

iDuring the' yel'lovv fever epidemic of 1887 in Louisianva, Texas, . .and.rlo-r---ida, there was no case on record of a printer going under witih 'the disease. Kind a little- .later, . when cholerw, killed a thousand in Chili; not a single mem>ber of the Typographical Union of Valparaiso succumbed. Next to. a bone" .manure factory, there is no industry where the odours axe, from a visitors ipoint of view more iappalin'g tihiin in a tan yard, -' and the stranger wonders how on eaTtih the ■■■.worke'ts are a very "'healthy lot. Colds and coughs are rare among itihe'nij and consumption is .practically unknown. - Tihe astringent . properties of the • -flan bark probably accoun.r for this pleasant immunity. Tihe owner of a largeg sealing \yax factory in Birminghaim has ten times •as many applida'tions for. situations in the ,resin department 1 of his faictory as ho can possibly deal" with. Some of tfe girls who .write actually.- offer to ivor.k for nothing. The reason is that the medical qualities of resin are so •well known that tihe part of the factory where the resin' is prepared bas :be'co.m€ famous as a specific iox a.nae- , rria and consumption.

After three "mottths ipale, thin, iho'l-low-dieeked girls regain their appetite and fill ou tin a way wftiich is simply amazing. . • . SEWERS AS A. -HEALTH RESORT. Only second efficacy as a cure for anaemia is that part of a sweet factory where cho'colats cream is made .This may sound like a joke, but. it "••s not so. A mere diet of chotooMe cream would not have at all tJhe same effect. Another extremely valuable hiealHlh •resort is a- spice 1 factory. One of the largest in England is to be fomnd at Leeds, and visitors to it are pleasaaitastonished at the 'delighted contrast which its employees "offer' "when compared with -workers in other near-by factories. Even that part of the es-tabilistti-ment wlher,ei gaf]ic -is crushed, and where the adour is pugent enough! to make one weep, is tenanted by most iheakhy-looking men and women. Of all unpleasant plaices to visit,: a ga.- works is one' of the worst, and it might -well be supposed that tihe mem employed would suffer from "breathing 'tih gas-laden air. Perhaps -they 'do, bu: it is wortlh noting that they have escaped very lightly im every onei of the epidemiics of influenza which 'have swept Ijhes« islands. .Still more sitar.tKng is the (Wieill-es-: ■ta'bl'islied .fact that sewer work is far from, unwlholesome. 'The: air in a seAver, contrary to general imipressioins, : is atetu ally purer than" that in tihe street abovo, and has -tke advantage of being entirely free from dust. Take them all round, and you will not find in London a more sturdy and healthy-looking ;set "of men than those who work for below the light 'of day ia.tfoa senvens of tihe, great city. ,