Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1908 — Bad Air "Breath of Death.” [ARTICLE]

Bad Air "Breath of Death.”

“Foul air from Improper ventilation is the breath of death In any srreat city. While poor food Is causing one death improper ventilation is reaping a harvest of 1,000 lives. Nor is this ratio confined to the slums.” In these words W. A. Evans of Chicago, commissioner of health, expressed his belief that the atmosphere of many houses is charged with a more deadly poison than Impure food. "In strict figures consumption and pneumonia have the greatest death rates in our city. In almost every case of these diseases the primary cause is the breathing of foul air,” he said.