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Title: Street-land; its little people and big problems
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, Philip, 1898-
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Publisher: Boston, Small, Maynard
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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conditions, says Dr. Walter S.Cornell, an authority on the health of schoolchildren, probably increase germ virulence,although the numerous germs present in dirtyhouses and filthy puddles are dangerous to hu-man kind principally because of their greaternumber. However, when wTe remember thatsunlight is the greatest agent in the destructionof germs we realize that lack of it is at leastrelatively a condition favoring germ life andactivity. Moreover, lack of sleep and ex-haustion, common among city children, causesa loss of vitality which makes them all the moresusceptible to some of these disease germs. Diphtheria and tuberculosis are spread bygerms which lodge in clothing and food.There is, therefore, the risk of becoming in-fected on the street by children in latent stagesof these diseases Of the eight thousand onehundred and eighteen cultures taken fromschool children in the Brighton district of Bos-ton, one hundred and two contained diphtheriabacilli. These diphtheria carriers were
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STREET HAZARDS 43 probable sources of contagion to the thousandsof other children of the district. Medical in-spection, the harbinger of a healthier people, isbecoming increasingly more effective in appre-hending both infectious and contagious dis-eases of school children. Sending such cases from school, however,does not always prevent infected children fromspreading disease. Measles and scarlet feverare frequently caught from children whom theschool doctor, having discovered early signs ofillness, sore throat or rash, for example,sent home. These children do not alwaysgo home nor do they stay at home when theyget there. Parents, through ignorance orcarelessness, actually send them down onto thestreet to play. Thus the disease may be com-municated to the many little ones below schoolage who people the streets at all hours. Human contact on city streets is one of thegreat enemies to the health of the child. Itmay well be that the human frame is built likean armor against disease, but e

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