The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-07-21
PUBLIC HEALTH
WILL Be GUARDED.
Object of New Government Hy-
gienic Laboratory Is for the
Study of Diseases.
LOCATED in WASHINGTON CITY
Doctor Rosenau, as Director, Out
lines Plans for Most Re-
markable Series of
Experiments.

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Washington. D. c.. july cl-Uncle Sam is
to have Federal public health service es-
tablished by statute and recognized by Con-
gress. as ground Is soon to be broken in
Washington for the erection Of remark
able scientific institution whose function will
be the protection Of the health Of the peo-
pie of the country.
1t will be known as the ''Hygienfc Labora-
tory" and will be administered under the
Marine Hospital Service. The main build
ing. to cost $4,000. will be built of brick
and in its classic lines will somewhat re-
semble the White House. In this will be
room for faculty Of thirty sc!entists-bac-
tertologists. biologists, biologists, entomol-
ogists and chemists. A 5000 menagerie to
shelter hundreds Of animals. upon which
the Ills to which human flesh Is heir are to
be inflicted, will be unique annex. A COM
plete crematory for disease-af6icted beasts
Will be another novel adjunct. This collec-
ton OF buildings will occupy five-acre
tract upon the river front and within the
reservation Of the old Naval Observatory.
From their windows the new faculty OF
savants will view tine White House. the
monument. the Capitol. the broad expanse
| Of the mall. the Potomac with it's green
banks and the Arlington mansion above the
yerdant Virginia hills.
This new Institution was conceived by
Surgeon General Wyman Of the Marine
Hospital Service, the noted scientist, who
so successfully guards our gateways against
the entrance OF foreign diseases. Doctor
| Wyman a day or two ago introduced me
| to Doctor NJ. ]. Rosenau, distinguished
II ll1l -N-I -
director OF the new laboratory, and author
| lied the latter to tell me the details Of how
his novel institution will improve the health
| Of the entire nation.
| Mena&erie II Provided.
| No other building in the world is like 1t.
| Its rules for the enforcement Of cleanliness
| will be more rigid than those which bind
biz bricK s barn, Of Modern n arehitecture con-
| tanning stalls and cages for monkeys. rat
| tiesnakes. ailtgators. turtles. horses. goats,
and WHAT Ps
ceiling will be tiled like those Of our mod
/ ern bathrooms. Every floor will be cement
ed and will slope into central culyert;
| each department will be flushed with sprays
| Of permanganate of potash and carbolic ACID
| solutions preventing the intrusion Of any
| disease microbes other than those invited
! by the experimenters Skylights will admit
| sunshine to every room. and the interior at
the most improved system Of automatic ven
| tilation. Opening from the indoor stalls and
| cages will be outdoor runways, where the
| their respective divisions Of an open field.
| Healthy animals will be confined to one
/ part Of the menagerte, those inocuIated
L with disease germs to another
| The animal crematory, in which menag-
erie inmates will be treated to the most
i aesthetic and aristocratic mortuary process
DISTINCTLY " SoVsi lines Ths viii Be-
similar to those devised for human corpse
disposal but by means Of an improved At
/ ing cavern of fire. Coal oil will be yaporixed
by steam jets protruding everywhere inside:
| and when this fuel Is kindled dreadful
| introduced carcasses as well as their con-
i Eliminating disease germs. Thus each IN
dividual animal dying in the cause Of the
/ many in its own or superior kingdom Will
/ leave no elements of peSttlence such as
may escape through the earth or atnos-
| phere.
The employment Of rattlesnakes for the
/ manufacture 0f positive cure Tor their
bites will be an interesting line OF work to
/ be carried on in the new laboratory. Doctor
| Rosenau explained the perilous process by
/ which this will be done. and says he has q
number Of poisonous rattlers temporarily
L installed at the Zoo. awaiting removal to
serpents Is needed an attendant in the mo.
/ Eagerie will introduce into the serpents
cage q long rod with moose at the enc
The Then Mr.: Snake viii Sc carried to the roo.
logical department Of the laboratory proper
Here he will be laid across table, large
while one OF the specialists tightly grasps
him about the head. Beneath the rattlerl
mouth VIII be placed glass watch crystal:
Will introduce into MI. 6nake's mouth Z
slender rod and will tickle his palate there.
with. All Of these goings on VIII make "a