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00:35 This is a story of two families, one of them happy,

00:41 one of them sad, one of them clean, the other careless,

00:51 one of them healthy, the other sick.

00:54 Suppose we call them the clean family and the careless family.

01:03 Now, how does it happen that the careless family is sick

01:06 while the clean family is not?

01:08 Well, let's see how the folks in the clean family live.

01:12 They live in a clean little house that looks like this.

01:16 Let's go inside.

01:16 It's mealtime.

01:21 Here's the mother cooking for the family.

01:24 Notice that she cooks on a simple stove of brick.

01:28 And for good reason.

01:29 She wants the food to be kept clean.

01:32 And see how clean her dishes are kept,

01:35 and how clean the food is, protected from flies.

01:37 And look outside here.

01:42 This is how the clean family keeps the pigs and chickens

01:45 confined in a simple corral of stakes and thongs.

01:49 This keeps the yard clean and also

01:51 keeps the pigs and chickens from wandering into the house.

01:54 And this means a clean house.

01:59 Here's the father working in the cornfield with his son.

02:01 This is indeed a happy family, because it's a clean family.

02:14 But let's compare this to the way the careless family lives.

02:18 Here is their house.

02:21 And here are some of their chickens.

02:23 And here's their pig left loose in the yard.

02:26 But let's go inside and meet the family.

02:28 Hey, you, get out of there.

02:31 You don't have any business in the house.

02:34 Here is the mother cooking the family meal.

02:37 She cooks on the floor, as has always been her custom.

02:41 But this has disadvantages.

02:43 Uh-oh, here's a chicken loose.

02:45 And there's that nosy pig again.

02:47 Cooking on the floor exposes the food to dirt and dust,

02:53 and to the sicknesses that might be in dirt.

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02:59 The father is not able to work because he's sick.

03:05 Little Johnny has stomach cramps,

03:06 and he sits in the corner most of the time.

03:10 Why should there be so much sickness in this home?

03:14 Well, let's go back to the day when Johnny first

03:17 became ill with the cramps.

03:18 Poor Johnny, he was in great distress.

03:25 And to make matters worse, there was no latrine,

03:29 but there was a cornfield.

03:30 That's where everyone went.

03:32 It was the custom.

03:33 But this was a very bad custom.

03:39 Though Johnny didn't know it, he was soon to bring

03:41 more sickness into his family.

03:44 Why?

03:46 Well, when a person has a sickness of the stomach,

03:49 that which leaves his body also contains the sickness.

03:53 And the sickness will live in the dirt

03:54 where he's left it for many days.

03:56 One morning a few days later, the father

04:01 went into the field to hoe his corn.

04:04 Yes, the same field where Johnny had often

04:06 come with his stomach cramps.

04:08 The sickness was still living in the dirt where Johnny left it.

04:14 Johnny's father found it hard work

04:16 hoeing the long rows in the hot sun,

04:18 and so he sat down for a few minutes to rest.

04:22 Idly, he sifted the cool dirt through his fingers

04:25 the way a true farmer will.

04:27 That dirt had in it an evil sickness, the sickness left

04:31 there in the field by Johnny.

04:34 And even though he dusted the soil off his hands,

04:36 the invisible sickness stayed.

04:38 And so he carried it with him when he went home to dinner.

04:44 And since he never washed his hands before eating,

04:47 the sickness from the field was still on them.

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04:53 It got on the food he was eating,

04:58 and the sickness went with the food into his stomach.

05:00 Soon, he too became sick, worse even than Johnny.

05:07 All this misery simply because they didn't know.

05:14 How could Johnny know he should use a latrine?

05:16 His family had no latrine.

05:18 It was not their custom.

05:20 What a careless family.

05:22 But let's see what the clean family

05:24 did about this same problem.

05:26 The father put up a simple latrine.

05:30 Here's how he built it.

05:31 First, he dug a deep hole.

05:33 Near at hand were some rough-hewn boards,

05:38 some stakes cut from trees, and some fat straw.

05:43 Let's see how he used these simple materials.

05:48 When the hole was deep enough, he

05:49 laid the boards across it, leaving

05:51 an opening in the center.

05:53 Then he fashioned a covering for this opening

05:56 to keep the flies out.

05:57 Flies too can carry sickness if they walk in filth

06:00 and then enter our homes.

06:03 Then he placed the stakes at the four corners of the latrine.

06:06 Now he was ready for the fat, so he--

06:09 wait a minute.

06:10 We seem to have a customer already.

06:12 It's little Tommy.

06:14 Excuse us, young man.

06:15 Suppose we give you some privacy.

06:18 [WHISTLING]

06:20 There, that's more like it.

06:22 That's what the thatch was for in the first place.

06:26 Little Tommy has been taught to use this latrine instead

06:29 of going into the field.

06:30 The inside of the latrine is always kept neat and clean.

06:36 And in this way, the sickness of the field

06:38 is kept from spreading.

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06:43 The careless household is indeed a place of unhappiness.

06:51 Because he never washes himself, Johnny is uncomfortable.

06:55 He's always scratching.

06:56 Tommy, on the other hand, gets a bath often.

07:02 In fact, everyone in this careful family bathes often.

07:06 To keep themselves clean, they wear clean clothes, clothes

07:10 washed with plenty of good soap, clothes

07:13 dried in the sunshine in clean places, never in the dirt.

07:17 The mother washes her hands to make them clean

07:20 before she handles the food.

07:23 She knows that sickness on food brings sickness

07:25 to those who eat that food.

07:28 The father and son also know about the sickness

07:30 that may be in dirt.

07:32 So they wash their hands before eating.

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07:38 The clean family keep their dishes clean.

07:41 They keep their food clean.

07:43 They sweep their house to keep it clean.

07:46 They keep their yard clean.

07:47 And they bury all refuse that might attract flies or rats

07:50 that bring sickness.

07:53 They have a good latrine.

07:54 And they keep it clean.

07:56 And they keep their bodies clean.

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08:02 These are the reasons why they're strong and healthy.

08:05 This is why they're happy.

08:08 Always remember, cleanliness brings health and happiness.

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