HOW GERMS TRAVEL.
SUNSHINE AND FRESH AIR THEIR
DEADLIEST ENEMIES
The list -of inleotious diseases is increas ling almost daily, said Dr Robertson, the Birmingham medical officer of health, in a lecture at the Birmingham University.
Nobody, he added, has yet been able to obtain the small-pox or scarlet fever germ, and othera were so minuite that ii magnified to the sb» oi an inch, a human being, magnified propoTtnonately, would seem 25 to 30 miles high.
Arctic traveller reported themselves free from colde and other maladies umtril their francfe seint some from home in their supplies. He had; neveT known 6carle(b fever ca<Mied by germs being blown out of one house into another. The interveoaing air and sunlight sufficed to kill germ&, but a speaker, by the mere act of speaking, could project the germs SO or 40 feet. ' Coughing and sneezing weTe powerful gejm distributors.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9066, 11 April 1906, Page 3
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147HOW GERMS TRAVEL. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LI, Issue 9066, 11 April 1906, Page 3
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