Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1913 — GUARDING AGAINST THE POLLUTED OYSTER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GUARDING AGAINST THE POLLUTED OYSTER

The agricultural department maintains at Washington a bacteriological laboratory where all Borts: of “bugs” are discovered in all sorts of food. A.t this time of the year, when the oyster season is at Its height, little is done In this place except to test'~oys ters and the water in which they live to determine whether or not they contain typhoid germs. The photograph shows Dr. George Stiles, Chief of the laboratory, and his two assistants, Miss Ruth C. Greathouse and Miss Maude L. Mason.