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Fun Facts about Hygiene

• Cleanliness is serious business dirty hands
  killed a president.

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HYGEINE COMES FROM THE WORD HYGIEA

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

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.
• A WARNING TO THE GERMS! BE PREPARED TO DIE. SOUTH
  ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AND STAFF ARE ON THE WAR
  PATH.

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