Fun & Facts about

Hygiene
Cleanliness is serious business;
dirty hands killed a president.

HYGEINE COMES FROM THE

WORD HYGIEA
Hygiea was a Greek goddess of health
cleanliness and the moon. Ancient Greek
gods apparently worked double shifts.

GERMS !
The human body is home to some 1,000
species of bacteria. There are more
germs on your body than people in the
United States.
Bathe America, Bathe!

Expensive Hand Sanitizers

Antibacterial soap is no more effective at
preventing infection than regular soap.
After studying over 11,000 children it was
found that an overly hygienic
environment increases the risk of skin
conditions and asthma.

THEY DONT DO WHAT?

Monks in a small religious monastery in
India are not allowed to bath any part of
their bodies besides their hands and feet.
Their religion believes it is wrong to kill
any living creature even microorganisms.

MOUNT SAPO
The word soap comes from this mythological
mountain.
When women washed their cloths in the
Tiber River, the dirt on the shore was a
mixture of fat and wood ash from animal
sacrifices coming down from the mountain.
They used this as a cleaning agent.

ILL USE DIAL, THANK

YOU
Ancient Egyptians and Aztecs rubbed
urine on their skin to treat cuts and burns.
Urea is a key chemical in urine.
When urine is in the bladder it is free
from fungi and bacteria, so it was
possibly cleaner than the water they
drank.

V-I-C-T-O-R-Y IS THE
KNIGHTS BATTLE CRY!
Englands medieval King Henry IV struck
a blow for cleanliness when he required
his knights to bath a least once in their
lives.---during their ritual knighthood
ceremonies.

FLUSH PLEASE
During the 18th-century, London did not have a sewer
system. Toilet water was just dumped out of the
windows on to the streets, where it contaminated the
citys water supply.
They did not know at the time that boiling water would
help make the water safer to drink.
In 1854 there were 616 deaths related to the water
supply in London alone.
Because of this, is was a common practice to drink
alcoholic beverages at every meal and in-between.

5 SECOND RULE
TRUE OR FALSE:
If you drop something on the floor but
pick it up in less than four seconds, it will
be OK. False. There is no five-second
rule when it comes to food on the ground.
Bacteria needs no time at all to
contaminate food.

GOOD OL CHINA
The first toothbrush was invented in
China in 1498. It was made of carved
cattle-bone and pig bristles wired into it.
Brushing ones teeth did not become
routine in the USA until it was enforced in
1940 on soldiers during World War ll.

SAY WHAT??????
In 1935, Northern Tissue proudly
introduced splinter-free toilet paper.
Previous options included tundra moss in
North America and sea sponge from salt
water for Romans. Here in the modern
West corncobs were used.

DONT INSULT A
GENTLEMAN
In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. campaigned
for basic sanitation in hospitals. But this
clashed with social ideas of the time
concerning upper class citizens like doctors.
Charles Meigs, a prominent American
physician, retorted, Doctors are gentlemen,
and our hands are always clean.
However, up to a quarter of all women giving
birth in European and American hospitals in
the 17th thru 19th centuries died of an infection
spread by unhygienic nurses and doctors.

TV KILLS
A study by the University of Arizona
determined that the TV remote control in
hospitals are the worst carriers of
bacteria in hospital rooms; worse even
than toilet handles. The remote can
spread the infection MRSA, which
contributes to over 90,000 deaths a year.

THE BULLET DID NOT

KILL HIM
It is now believed President James
Garfield did not die from the bullet fired
by Charles Guiteau.
Some of the medical team that treated
the President were also farmers with
manure-stained hands. The wound
developed a severe infection that killed
him three months later.

LAST THOUGHTS

Hygiene tips do not have to be complicated.

Everyone can practice good hygiene.
Soap and water are the simplest form of cleaning.
Wash hands all day long, especially before exiting the
bathroom, and before meals.
When at all possible wash the TV remotes, mouses
and keypads between users.
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A WARNING TO THE GERMS! BE PREPARED TO DIE.
SOUTH ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AND STAFF ARE
ON THE WAR PATH.

THE END