340 PERSONAL AND CIVIC HYGIENE 



(a) Consumption. 

 (&) Smallpox, 

 (c) Scarlet fever. 

 (2) Noncontagious. 

 (a) Yellow fever. 

 (6) Lockjaw, 

 (c) Typhoid. 



(d} Malaria. ',, 



6. Noninfectious. 



(1) Alcoholism. 



(2) Diabetes. 



(3) Insanity. 



(4) Cancer. 



2. How germs enter the body. 



a. Breathing. 



b. Drinking cups. 



c. Pencils, fingers on books, etc. 



d. Food. 



3. How tuberculosis may enter the body. 



a. With food or milk, through walls of the intestine, thence to 



lungs in the blood. 

 6. With the air. 



4. How typhoid germs enter the body. 

 a. With food. 



6. By flies on food. 



c. Milk. 



d. With water. Surface waters in shallow wells. 



5. Alcohol. 



a. Weakens cells that fight disease. 



6. Causes diseases of liver, kidneys, and heart. 



II. PREVENTION OF DISEASE 



Note. Over 100,000 people lose their lives yearly by reason of germs. 

 1 . Destroy germs by : 



a. Boiling excreta from bowels and kidneys of persons suffering 

 from contagious diseases. 



6. Adding 4 % solution of formalin to excreta of the above. 



c. Putting the sputum of the sick in a cloth, or in boxes, and burn. 



d. Killing off the flies. 



e. Quarantine. 



