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OWE CENT-noon edition-one CENT ALL THE LOCAL NEWS-FULL UNITED PRESS SERVICE-IS HANDY TO READ THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOU5, NO. 91 Chicago, Friday, January 14, 1916 398 PUT THE KIBOSH ON ALL PUTRID AIR ,r t . This Is Not a Health Bulletin, but Maybe This Little to Advice From Chicago's Health Commissioner Will . ) Help Sidetrack Grip and Pneumonia. What has cold weather to do with grip? Should we keep the agarjlment windows open on these frigid days? Should we forego our morning bath because of the chill winds? Why do hoboes, illy clad and always ogt in the cbld seldom get grip vor pneumonia? (The subject of cold and colds as discussed to Enoch Thomas' by Dr. James Dill Robertson, commissioner of public health for the city of Chi cago, especially for this Day Book article. There are too many colds and too much other sickness in Chi cago. Hence the article.) air, no matter if it is cold," said Dr. James Dill Robertson, Chicago's health commisisoner, as he delivered a carefully prepared lecture to an audience of one person, a writer for The Day Book. "We catch grip from dirty air, from air that is dead or foul, filled with the oxides which people have breathed from their bodies, in othe. ''You c&nnot get grip from fresh I