The evening world. Newspaper, April 29, 1920, Page 21

Every hour— 72 Americans die of preventable causes ‘Many are made ill by the 6 danger spots in their homes VERY minute the clock ticks off means the need- less death of a friend, a neighbor, an American somewhere. These deaths could be prevented. This is the striking statement published by a member of the It is not simply the old‘or the weak who succumb to these preventable diseases, just as it is not merely careless people living in dirty houses who keep America’s 3,000,000 sick beds filled. These sick beds—there is one in every seventh home in the country—are many of them in houses as clean, as well kept, as your own. For though actually more disease is contracted from persons han from things—yet thousands of people each year are made ill by the 6 danger spots in their own homes. They are poisoned by refrigerators apparently as shin’ ing white and spotless as yours; they get diphtheria from garbage pails with tops that fit just as tightly; they are made ill by the dark corners of their houses and basements; they pick up all types of contagions and infections from bathrooms and kitchens as seemingly spotless as those you take pride in. _ The “invisible dirt” that brings disease The invisible dirt in these danger spots, the dirt you never see, is responsible for much illness. Our grandmothers depended on ordinary scrubbing in their fight against disease. And, in their day, one person out of every thirty- five died yearly. Today we are realizing that we need more than the old-fashioned cleanliness to make our homes safe just as we need trains rather than stage coaches. We're learning now that the refrigerator drains cause part of the yearly epidemic of typhoid. We're learning why doctors call it a “filth” disease—that people are made sick by their own wéll-scrubbed refrigerators—by germs in the drain.pipes which settle in the milk and on the vege tables and fruit. The simple, scientific way to keep these danger spots disease proof Keep disease out of your kitchen Wash your sink with a Sylpho Nathol solution—purify the trap and pipes with it—make ther» safe. Sy1p Modern science, which discovered germs and their responsibility : for illness and disease, has found, too, the way to render them harmless. It has given us Sylpho-Nathol—and Sylpho-Nathol makes easy and prac- tical for our homes the antiseptic cleanliness doctors mean when they say “clean.” . Women are putting Sylpho-Nathol into every pail of scrubbing water. They are disinfecting their bathrooms and kitchens—keeping them anti- septically clean. When the final dish is washed, a Sylpho-Nathol solution * is poured down the sink drain pipe and allowed to remain in the trap all night. The last thing each night they are pouring a little Spleho-Nathol in the bathroom drains and into the clear water of the toilet. They are putting Sylpho-Nathol in the water when they scrub their garbage cans. They are flushing the refrigerator drain pipe with it. They have made doing these things the same regular habit they have made using soap. your family Germs breed in the refrigerator drain ipe. Flush the pipe with a Sylpho- jathol solution. This purifies it— makes it a doctor’s idea of “clean.” o-Nath CABOT'S Keeps disease away Your refrigerator can poison And Sylpho-Nathol is making already immaculate homes immaculate all the way through—it is rendering clean and sweet and antiseptic the inaccessible spots where the danger from disease is greatest. It’s the everyday precautions that make you safe It’s not the precautions you take when there is sickness that keeps your family healthy. You must keep yourself well and you must give your home this greater cleanliness to make it disease-proof. Germs are not a result of disease; they cause it. Germs cannot flourish in an antiseptically clean place. Start today to make your home really clean with Sylpho-Nathol. Keep a bottle in the kitchen and a bottle in the bathroom. Remember that a). clean appearance is not enough. Know that your home offers no possible menace to the health of your family. i Leading hospitals use Sylpho-Nathol. You can get it in four convenient sizes—1oc, 25¢, 50c and $1.00. At drug and department stores. The Sulpho-Naphtol Co., Boston. Beh & Co., N. Y. and Phila., Agents. ©“ * Sickness may start from your st rhage i its in fare ily hana for Mitte agit prt Put Sylpho-Nathol in the water when Dampness is a menace Put Sylpho-Nathol into your scrubbing water—wash the inaccessible corners with it. Sylpho-Nathol will destroy the germs that breed there. 5 the basin with a tion and let it ‘ Protect the' bathroom your , ‘ Ni oor clean—germ free. The danger in your bathroom The basin itches and bits HE pd wou dg eed tg ts 4 Sylpho-Nathol solu- drain into the trap, a Tre may ner er ee tee