Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 32, Hammond, Lake County, 18 August 1917 — Page 3

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chandise at a saving of considerable money, during this sale. The mere statement that the items offered are lower priced than ever before does not completely satisfy us until you prove it

by comparison, barcrain value.

livery item u

The sale circular

filled vitli special items. If you did not

receive a cor-y, as:: icr it. vc nave re

served a number of them fc reus.

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continues tliroHilioiit tlie entire week. See our display windows.

Ask for a Copy

it Health Eii-.ib.ticns v.-r.

ntny people at first sight take for a picture of ths crusts on

ti.e surface of ths mon. or of the canals on the planet Mars. Vi'hat it redly shov.s is a circular p!ate containing a g-el2.tine culture of the consumption perm the tubercle bocillus. This plate to begin v.-:ih was a perfe-t blank a tabula vase, us the ancient Romans used to call their ta'oljt before wrltins on it. But there soon developed on this pelitin plate letters ebo-it as ominous as those which the Prophet Daniel polcteil out to Belnhaiar at Ms royal feitst. Here is the way of it: The laboratory doctor had put on that plate a fly that had grot his feet stuck in the spittle of a consumptive: and he had then covered the whole with a glass Jar so that the fly coui3 not got away. This Insect, thus heavy

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I J ' : .-..' i I S J tuaate has not yet had malaria he

.''X- - I Naturally then, ths prevention of

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the skin nf unci?? nly ci -' -'-

not bath- reru'.r.riv. i x J ,

Insects, Many of Them Small and Unimportant, Are hZTS

the Chief Factors in Spreading Bisesse- A ays In Which the Germs Are Conveyed - The Common Fly the Chiei Offender.

e "ro.T. ou;t;-3 ot cc.i-

of ths refus which

rem rot; in ? vert-bl59, Twt-n'.y-f.v. per cent.

os breed in manure h-i.-ps.

.a bee a brou?htto the bar on tat:taLi for having sprca:! chclera.

i lock'xw. trarhoma er-nc!ar lul.

s b?in a di?eae, h--nth ra.:: (.th-? stable y is here n-ilty). economic and so- i and, forr.c;h.r.?r like a dozen more civilization; that srm diseases. Thu ordinary Cy may

lhi3 great Vv'h'te Piag-ue exists largely ! swallow the egrgs of tapeworms and by reason of human supiness and re;- 'other intestinal per&si'ea, and tbc-n Sect cf the simplest precepts of hygiene (distribute those ergrs where they rny and sani.atlon. The Babylonian king I do hurt to humf.r.kind. did not heed the wa miner which lav I I om by now painfully conscious

cons;: n r ; ion. b c i .i i. the rncs-t readfi cial degeneracy in

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;it n;y articlo does not read precisely

iv. the wrlrsne on the !!. Pv Yerd

ixiflr the lesson that lies in that little ilika a report of a pick tea. Indeed.

grelatir.e plate wa shall be very far in fit deals with some very unpleasant the way, we and our fellow men and j snd qualmi.h thlngB. And yet 1 hope women, cf banishing the tuberculosis i my readers will go on with me to the which it represents from human ex-'bitter en.1, by reason of the prt.it

perienee and from off the fac o

aarth. -ject. Of course, ii'.bs are not the only i

agency in tke spread of tuberculosis; j for they are acf ve but a few months i of the year, whilst that diseasa Is coa- I tracted all the year round.

the i Importance of this rather creepy tufc-

Fli" Swell Infant Beatit Rate. It is certain also that Sirs help

footed, then promenaded all over the- Kreany to swe.l the lnr&r.t death rate, ( plate. Twenty-four hours later col-: 'hich 1 greatest In the fly season, j onies of the consumption perm, medo ; There are few more cong-enial culnire j up of uncountable millions of thosn j 3nK ia for germs than milk, especially tubercle bacilli, developed on ita Jamld the im cleanliness which obtains tracks. !'n t,- houses of very many poor peo-j Tou may think I exasg-erate wha!?lf. ep orally in the tenements. This!

I compara this fact of the gelatine ui ewuy on ontanaaiM ay . - . . . . , ... Ilea and with the noxlove matter that Plate with the Prophet Daniel nd the... cont,-.aa!:y cV.ns to thatr haIry wrttintr on the wall. TTe.l. te that iMU tho:r sponjPJ. bodies and their It may, I asls you or.ly to reflect how uKy T,'.-.7. Tuberculosis is thus cerconsumptlon has up to this time been ' -.Airily contracted by children, as are corrytngr off every third or fourth or! 'the various forms cf dysentery, pracus between adolescence end mr-turlty: tically e!l cf which are T-r.m ailments, that In all the wr.r of the ninet4cstij.Erer.pt fed Infants eeldom have such century (Including those of Napoleon) , diarrhoeas, whilst bottle fad babies 14 millions succumbed, whilst 30 mil- j have thm r.U too frequently. Typhoid lions succumbed to cor.sumption, tbe'ffyer Is so ofen transmitted by files Captain of the Han of Death; that that doctors speak of this insect a the advanced consumptive day by day ;tha typhoid f.v. It pollutes food and coughs anrt spits out se-t,rl thousand drink, especially your milk, butter and K-illions of the tt:fcercla bacilli; thit Uusar br cieias of the material which

now Insects wprea1 Disease. Before considerin? other injects I had better state more clearly yist how these pests perform their part in disease dispemins-tioa. The perms c.ay stick to h bodies of the insocts. Or the grms may be eaten by the inecs and dppopi'ed upon human food ar.i drink wth their excreta. Oc the n-

sects may f:jc mouths upon

reorie wlio clo

Or the insects may dio after eating ths germs; and the boCies of the forri. er may , fall ir;to tl.s food; cr tl.e .Isfid insect bor.ics ctay (i;y up, cruin-

,s ciicaso. Anor holes breeds In still water, in

o:e. De sprc.ia -n a.:st ano. on e:t uer moist inh&ied fir injeft-1 by human bic?s. i

psnd or moss

in pools by

of open s'rer.ms, !n cermane

Or the. insoi3 l.-uch as the mo.qu!to) accumulations of ncter of every sort-

may m;--;: m-o a-t r.nn w-n t i.r.r irrigation

st.n? cueaspd t..o?.ct wr.icn tiicy r.?elv.he

previously tucKci :r-.m a prev sufferer (such as a ru.laria patle.-

:ii'j:!:ui:o rrvt-r. Doctors prefer to "r"ak of malar

as ir.oac alto fcv.r. for. ai everyone

now knows, it is the species of raos- ; anl the products of this process enter jyito callad Anovhle-s. which is pole- i fh mosquito's salivary glands and aro !y responsible' for th? prop..iration of 1 e.iect ed Into ths sysTrm of th next

itcnes, stagnant water

c there is grefn ;cu.-.a, in beds of

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-s i old canals.

cid horse trot;

the hk;

V.'hen the biood of a

and ma-

Eu.Tcr!

is suce.

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"to tr.e ston-

cch by .mcphftlca the ma'ari.i parasite

poes development;

person stung. If this letter unfortunate has not yet had malaria he thus contracts ths dis-easc unle.'is his

.itart.l ur.tl-cerm for:e aro aMe to

destroy the p.v.'asite before it c-a do any mischief i his body. Naturally then, the prevention of malaria depends on the destruction o" , all breeding places within ths radius of a mile. The way to do this is to i rain or fill In with earth, or to cover , tb.e surface of any water with a thin

, h. m or kerosene. Houses mutt be

I screened.

! sundown; and only the Lady Aai opheiea does the mischief. Here, a.s

elsewhere in the cosmos, is the femaiv of the species more dreadful than the mala. Spreads Typiius. The insect which in hitrhbrow literature is termed Feuicuius tsUmcntorum., but which in plain letLg-uag. is the louse. Is responsible for the spread of several grave diseases. Sow

that bloc. i

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to be much more than this. Undoubtedly cases cf smallpox are spread b? this insect in cheap lor:?r houses, perhaps more frequently than by any sthcr nfC!. And were it not for the frequent vaccinations -ordered by

health authorities epidemics of this

disease would probably not bo rare. Consumption germs hav bst-n found .n bedbug blood; also rms of ether disc-arcs. ThH Insect may live for weeks without food. During: ths winter It will

Anopheles bites onlv efter 'become comatose and will weather tba

winter like any other hibematiart creature. It will continue Its existence, will demonstrits lie wiil-to-live, -rain?, th. hf r-let kind of luck, from

I t?noTi to st-KKcn. ia lumhe.r carries.

! summer houses, empty apartoats and j the like. ! Hms Srtrcafl r-uborstc PlagTic. ! The chief iniquity of the flea lies ir. its trans mission of the grerm of the j bubonic p'.txuf. The roach has also

tien's were first Immersed in a solution of mercury bichloride; 'b.sr. they were put in sterile water. Next thev were ground in a sterile mrtar an the resultant material was inoculated

into animals and were developed

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the mandates of all i spection the head proved to be that

I bbed my garden I of an Encllsh sparrow. The hous?, to ne his brieht win

fall with bird box-as and j if you will believe me. had been p rehouses, said the quiet i emptied by a family of these ruth-

rge bird; less robbers.

m I set-i

j do?

waa d!sa";r Kven os I

Early in 1 onto tho rorf of rry bird ( sat there medit?.

woman. "I put also a la bath in the center of it. Th tied down to wait for sprin

enjoy my bird neighbors, the rprlr.g I observed that

houses were tenanted. There were j til called fror;

preat goings on wi'hin them, subdued I tared to see 1

chirpings and much activity, and I grot I an Knslish rpi:

out my opera trlarscs and prepared to njcy myself. The tenants came

forth after & period. A head appeared pest es-Ticn of

but what could I warniTi: l a bird few

'ho rrrr's ho .isc. lie tirf :y for awhile ;:nvi it bin when ha nw:r. The bird was ow. By dtrit of crn-

st stent observation I discovered that

all of mv bird houses w.;re in

he si-1? of the bowl with Intent i

and ss I held j Er.?liah spar-

, upon

y breath wit

culture media. By this niea:

s typhoid

joy an

germs were demonstrated in those lice. V.'e have all read ho.r dreadful .TOOIltmnf'l' t Vl A t fr,v,-.f

row f.ew down and drove him away , '." - 1, . in the earlier months of this present

war. in Serbia and in the Balkans r?n-

it is the louse whih is the

rh:f disseminator of the typhus perm. This insect has also been prove 1 to

relapsine fever, a disuse associated with povey-

sparrow , era,;

with beak and wme.

"And did that Ers'ish bathi? Not at all.

"TI? was of ar.archiril. tendencies ; evidently, for h ?ive himself the i

try c.eanlngs. an

t ".en

'.Oi'l

from the bluebird's, door and It is not: too much to say that mv heart pa!-jb;

"Then I frit that I ir th t- brine tb ot;;

.trc.I is tn

most cau.:il of dr

f..?w a why r.patn without even a look of gratitude at. me. B;3t what eicasperatcs Is that T should have pro-

ave Jo na-

the vided houwes for creattires that I

I'as. ; been trrirjr to rid my :-?; f of fr t; m" I thtr.e tcry f parens. For cool.

Is, bvt

rive

p u - :

commer.d me to the

transmit rnerall.

striker., half-starved and ove.-c-c-.vde. communities, where lice are apt to b 'n evidence. The Bedbug. The bedbugr has from time imnem orial b"en obnoxious enoirrrh by .

We nust mention also Hocky Jlounts.'n fcv-:r wh'.h h.s for severs! years occurred during the sprlnrr months in Mcatina -.nd ths n&'.tfhborln-; Slates. Tho irrrm of this di't-ase in transmitted from caf.ls to man by the tick, whi.;h lr.?crt is tl. ret pons; bio agent also for Ttras or cattle fever. I a tried to present here the esmtinl facts a!out the Insect transmission of disease. My grticle would, however, appfiar to be l!ko the play of Hamlet v.-ith Hamlet left cut; for J have wrilten no'hlntr about how to p.il -".'.a ir.sfit infection spriiadtrs. S; .ce !;as not permitted this; nor is i" ne.- rr.ry. For every citi-

i ?f.T's her.l'b department, town, city, or MSta", application, supply full printed directions. Or ruch directions ! will hi- without char (re, by tha ! "r.ited -s I'i.I lie Health Serr'.ca - y.: W.-Khi-i-fon, r. C, or of tho United t;S:af- F-i!'"u of Ajricull .'.re. Wasli-

pitated fearfully. But alas, upon in-1 few days later I c; a bluebird perch i Eni'.ish sparrcwl"

' belna

bedbug. Eat he is

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