Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1910 — HEALTH EXHIBIT IS HEBE THIS WEEK. [ARTICLE]

HEALTH EXHIBIT IS HEBE THIS WEEK.

Free Opportunity to Study Causes of Disease and Learn Something of Pure Food Laws. Dr. W. F. King, from the office of the secreary of the state board of health, and F. W. Tucker, a pure food inspector, are in Rensselaer with their free-exhibit of charts, etc., and the public is cordially invited to visit the scene of the exhibit in the room just vacated by Meyers & Secor, west of Roth Bros.’ meat market. The exhibit is free and the attendants will be anxious to show all visitors the various interesting features there. The room will be open both days and evenings until Friday at 4 o’clock, when packing for removal will be started.

The local health officers, and; in fact, all the local physicians, are cooperating with the office of the secretary of the state board of health in making the visit profitable to the public in the prevention of disease and in the education of people as to what the pure food law aims to accomplish. The room is hung with various carts, illustrating many of the dangers that beset the public health, and largely devoted to tuberculosis. The best methods of treatment for the white plague are shown and numerous illustrations showing the stage of the disease, the cause and the best methods of treatment are shown. Spitting is doubtless the greatest cause for a spread of consumption, and one purpose of the exhibit is to teach consumptives where to spit, and well people how to guard against the dangers thus caused. The diseased lungs are shown in covered cases, and Dr. King and his assistants will be pleased to talk with all who visit the exhibit, and to try to sow the seed of health in Rensselaer in a manner that will have a permanent benefit. Mr. Tucker has been with the state pure food inspectors for a long time and is familiar with most of the deceits practiced in the effort to self adulterated and cheapened foods and hap a number of interesting experiments showing the frauds practiced by some food preparations. Every person in Rensselaer and vicinity should see this exhibit. Each may learn somethiny that will aid in saving of life. Remember it is entirely free and you are urged to come and get all the information and instruction that you can. Thursday night at 7:30 o’clock at the Presbyterian church there will be a free stereoptican lecture by Dr. King. You can learn something about consumption if you attend it. The church should be crowded.

This afternoon at 2:30 the 6th grade of the schools visited the exhibit. Other grades will visit it during the week and Friday morning at 8:30 Dr. King will talk to the high school "and the older grades in the assembly room. Friday the township trustees will meet at the county superintendent’s office and after visiting the exhibit will listen to a discussion of things vital to the health in the schools by Dr. King. This exhibit is sent here for the good of the public. There is nothing to sell, nothing to give away, except knowledge accumulated by hard study and the people should give it the heartiest encouragement.