Dust and its dangers / by Mitchell Prudden.

  • Theophil Mitchell Prudden
Date:
[1890]
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Credit: Dust and its dangers / by Mitchell Prudden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a potato-bug and then swallowing Pans green to kill it was not very rational—we must do the best we can along the lines which have been suggested in this book to prevent the occurrence of these diseases by destroying the germs before they get scattered in the dust, or, failing in the opportunity for this, see to it that the dust itself is intelligently disposed of. One of the most serious obstacles in the way of clean living in towns in this country is the especially American expectoratory prerogative, which so frequently both anticipates and ac- companies the franchise in otherwise decent males. The trick is early acquired by our mongrel immigrants, who lose no time in bet- tering our instructions. Could women, walking upon our streets, leaving cars, and descending from elevated railroad stations, but see them- selves and their environment as others see them, the management of the skirts of walk- ing-suits would, it would seem, command from them a more careful attention. We must speak plainly here, for very surely unto dust does all this expectorated unspeakableness soon return. 7
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