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THE DOUGLAS COUNTY HEALTH UNIT, City Hall, Massachusetts Street, at
llth, functions daily from 8:00 A, M. to 5:00 P. M. Come in and tell

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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

AGRICULTURE last year employed 16% of the nations workers, but had 24%
of the fatal accidents. Of all forms of accidents 4 were in homes,
28% involved machinery, 26% live stock, 10% falls, 9% heat, 6% light-
ning, and all others 80%. Here is a Situation and a matter where
"taking thought" can make a whale of an improvement.

PNEUMONIA

PNEUMONIA (four syllables please) was known to Hippocratés and the old
Greek physicians, but they made it include whet we now call pleurigye-
1.¢. they did not distinguish between inflammations of the body of the
lung end those of its surface or the lining of the chest wall. Aretacus
made a description of it that has been a classic for near two thousand
years: “Ruddy in countenance, but especially the cheeks; the whites

of the eyes bright and fetty; the point of the nose flat; the veins

in the temples and neck Cistended; loss of appetite: pulse, at first,
large, empty, very frequent, as if forcibly acceleratcd; heat, indeed,
extcrnally feeble, and more humid than natural, but internally, dry and
very hot, by means of which the breath is hot; there is thirst, dryness
of the tongue, desire of cold air, aberration of mind; cough mostly dry
but if anything be brought up, it is a frothy phlegm or slightly tinged
with bile, or with a very florida tinge of blood. The blood stained if,
of all others, the worst",

Formerly, it was taught that all Pneumonia, both lobar and bronchial,
was caused by the pneumococeus. We now recognize several other agents--
notably streptococcus and virus. About three times as many males as
females have it. In the United States it is more fatal in negroes than
in whites. Those exposed to cold and hardships are more susceptible,
immigrants and new comers are less so than natives--in the literature.
it renews or relapses more than any other acute disease,

It occurs in all climates and in all seasons, but is more frequent in
winter end spring, ind the incidence is greeter in citics.

Nearly every one carries the infectous agent all the time so that when
some other trouble strikes him he may develope a pneumonia. This fact