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In the Driftway
September 23, 1931 issue

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The spectacle of babies begging for disinfectants is one to give pause for thought. Three children aged ten, twelve, and fourteen were being transported by motor car from one part of Connecticut to another. When they passed through a town they held their handkerchiefs over their mouths and noses, to keep out the paralysis germs. Children in sanitary America are brought up on sterilized water, fed milk out of a boiled battle, burdened with the necessity of keeping out in the sunshine and fresh air, and bandaged and cleansed and swabbed and anti-toxined all their young lives. It all started, probably, with the rite of hand-washing before meals.

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CHILDREN -- Health & hygiene; PUBLIC health; SANITATION; HAND washing; STERILIZATION; UNITED States
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