u can and before it is too |
| late. |
| |
| =The careful and clean consumptive is not dangerous to those |
| with whom he lives and works.= |
| |
| =Don't give consumption to others.= |
| |
| Many grown people and children have consumption without knowing |
| it, and can give it to others. Therefore every person, even if |
| healthy, should observe the following rules: |
| |
| =DON'T SPIT= on the sidewalks, playgrounds, or on the |
| floors or hallways of your home or school. It spreads |
| disease, and is dangerous, indecent, and unlawful. |
| |
| =WHEN YOU MUST SPIT=, spit in the gutters or into a spittoon |
| half filled with water. |
| |
| =DON'T COUGH OR SNEEZE= without holding a handkerchief or |
| your hand over your mouth or nose. |
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This method of promoting the welfare of the worker may have been a
necessary step in the development of industrial hygiene. Undoubtedly it
has succeeded, in many cases, in bringing to an employer's
consciousness the needs of his workmen, in accustoming employees to
higher sanitary standards, and in teaching them to demand health rights
from their employers. In many cases, however, "welfare work" has
miseducated both employer and employee. The fact that "the so-called
democratic idea, purely a fad, has never been successfully operated,"
is due to the interpretation given to "democratic idea." The two
alternatives in the paragraph above quoted are lunch rooms, wash rooms,
as gifts from employers to employees, or lunch rooms and wash rooms to
be furnished by employees at their own expense. The true democratic
idea, however, is that factory conditions detrimental to health shall
be prohibited by factory legislation, and thi