PURITY OF AIR

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4953, 9 February 1937, Page 8

PURITY OF AIR

DOCTOR’S ADVICE Asking all to become "alrminded,” in a new sense, the Director of Industrial Hygiene, Dr Charles Badham, in an address to the Health Inspectors’ Conference, said that, in the vast majority of human infectious diseases, the enemy of man was man himself. ; “In nearly all the groups, where death is not in the pot, infection comes from the air,” he said. “In

fact, it is fairly clear that if the human race is ever to be wiped out by a plague it will be by some'respiratory air-borne disease.” It could be generalised, he said, that the air-borne diseases included influenza and the common cold, tuberculosis and cerebro-spinal fever, pneumonia, whooping cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, bronchitis, asthma, ana dust diseases. “So,” he said, “I am asking you to become airminded to promote our health. Firstly, we can demand air free from odours, dust, smoke, and noxious gases. And then you can ask yourselves what type of ventilation is found in our homes, offices, theatres, trams and hotels.” Dr Badham criticised systems in which, he said, air was re-circulated. “We should exploit our climate,” he added.