CLEAN WATER 



is as essential to good health as clean air. Care ill the provision and protectic 

 of public water-supplies has saved millions of valuable lives, for cholera, typho 

 fever, and dysentery are deadly diseases carried from one person or place 

 another by water. 



It may be said that in the country, where each household has its own we 

 these risks do not exist. That is more or less true; though water may trav 

 miles in underground streams and still retain the germs of some disease wil 

 which it has been contaminated at a far-distant point. Besides which, impui 

 water or insufficient water for cleansing purposes are responsible for a va 

 amount of poor health, sore throats, and bodily discomforts. Fig. 2 illustrates 

 state of affairs all too common in many a farmstead. Leakage (2 (a)) fro 

 privy, cesspool, tank, or manure-heap (2 (b)) finds its way to the well, wil 



Fig. i. 



Reproduced by kind permission of Messrs. E. .T. Arnold & Son, Ltd., from 

 " Practical Hygiene," by Alice Itavenhill. 



unsatisfactory results to the consumers of the dirty water. The relative positic 

 of well, midden, stable, cow-shed, pigsty, and sanitary convenience is of gre* 

 moment to the family health. When in doubt as to the cleanliness of water, 



BOIL IT FOR AT LEAST HALF AN HOUR. 



The " flat, " taste can be removed and its pleasant sparkle can be restored 1 

 the simple expedient of pouring it two or three times from one jug into anothei 

 this restores the air which is driven out by the boiling process. 



CLEANLINESS IN PERSONAL HABITS 



is a very big subject, which can be touched upon all too briefly in these pages, 

 must be considered under two heads : 



((/.) External cleanliness, or care of the person; and 



(&.) Internal cleanliness, which is of equal importance. 



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