Share and Voice 4: Modern Health Crusade

I learned a bit about the Modern Health Crusade in HLTH 3303 Foundations of Health. At this website, it talks about a "No spitting" campaign to stop the spread of tuberculosis back in 1915. They believed that spitting on streets and floors could spread tuberculosis if the spitters were infected. The bacteria could live in the spit up to a day, and women stopped wearing dresses that dragged on the ground collecting the bacteria and bringing it into their homes. I found all of this very interesting. It then led to a campaign that we still kind of follow today. It includes a list of simple habits such as washing hands before each meal, brushing your teeth after breakfast and dinner, drink four glasses of water a day, taking baths regularly, and a few others. I found these things very interesting because they are kind of the starting ground for some of our healthy habits we have today.