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cloths frequently shaken out-of-doors, so that 

 the dust may be removed and not simply 

 redistributed. This becomes the more impor- 

 tant if any inmate of the house is suffering 

 from one of the bacterial diseases. 



In the interests of health the fitting of 

 houses with simpler furniture or less heavy 

 hangings and fixed carpets is greatly to be 

 desired. 



It is from human waste that the larger part 

 of the infective stuff comes which we should 

 avoid, and it is, most of all, in floating dust 

 and the spray of uncouth sneezers that this 

 passes from one to another. 



If we could gradually wean ourselves, in 

 public places at least, from the carpet, that 

 storehouse of floating filth, sending up unseen, 

 with every footfall, its clouds of often in- 

 fectious dust, to irritate the delicate recesses 

 of our lungs; if we might venture to suggest to 

 the well-meaning but usually wholly unin- 

 structed or wofully misinstructed delegates 

 of Hygeia in our cars, offices, theatres, schools, 

 churches, and homes, that dust is to be got 

 rid of, not simply set astir by the feather- 



