Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1917 — HARVARD KILLS OFF RATS [ARTICLE]

HARVARD KILLS OFF RATS

College Doing Utmost to Safeguard the Health of Its Students. Boston.—Harvard Is doing its utmost to keep its students fit Recently a campaign against rats was concluded, so that if there was any possibility that they were the carriers of Infantile paralysis, its rav« ages at Harvard would be reduced to the utmost minimum. To further safeguard the students, the raw milk in all of the university dining halls, at the training tables, and_as far as posslble in all the eating places in Cambridge Is being pasteurized. The water used In all thes* places is examined almost dally. Melville C. Whipple, sanltary lnspector at Harvard, Is also watching the various other food supplies, methods of service and makes frequent examinations of conditions under which food Is served. All food handlers as far as possible are examined for th* presence of contagious disease.