HOW GERMS TRAVEL
Sunshine and Fresh Air Their
Deadliest Enemies
The list of infectious diseases is increasing 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 others were so minute that, if magnified to the size of an inch, a human being, magnified proportionately, would seem 25 to 30 miles high.
Arctic travellers reported themselves free from colds and other maladies until their djjtds sent them from home in their supplies. He had never known scarlet fever carried by germs being blown out of one house into another. The intervening air and sunlight sufficed to kill germs, but a speaker, by the mere act of speaking, could project the germs 30 or -10 feet. Coughing and sneezing were powerful germ distributors.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXX, Issue 8428, 19 April 1906, Page 3
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