Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-12-02

the general health of the people OF
the State, stopped at St. Joseph on
Thursday and the cars were thrown
open to the public.
The suggestion of touring the
State with a practical exhibit came
from DIR. Oscar bowling, president
of the board, and the tour began
several weeks ago.
Displayed in practical manner in
each coach, from which the seats
have been removed, is an exhibit
which was pronounced by those who
saw it Thursday when the car was
open for inspection at the depot, as
being one that would be a credit to
any museum.
Arranged on a table in the center
of the car are twenty large glass jars.
In these are sections of the human
form, not of wax or composition,
but actual specimens. These sections,
which have been divided and pre-
pared by a special process of DR..
Edmond Souchon, show the progress
of tuberculosis in various stages of
development. This anatomical-path-
illogical exhibit was prepared es-
pecially for the exhibit by DR.. Sou
chon by courtesy of Tulane Univer-
sity from the SOuchon Museum of
Anatomy of the medical department
of the university.
Set up along the sides of the car
is an interesting exhibit furnished
by the Louisiana Anti-Tuberculosis
League. This consists of charts, dia-
grams and statistical information.
One of these is a card showing q
picture of the tuberculosis bacilli and
the contrasting figures that during
the civil war the total killed in ac-
ton was POS ,070, while in four years
tuberculosis in the United States has
killed $40, 900. Below the charts are
a number of transparent views pre-.
pared from photographs taken by
DR.. P. T. Talbot on his recent tour
of inspection of the State. These show
insanitary diaries, insanitary hand.
ling of food products and similar
subjects. They are taken in eight
cen or twenty different towns of the
State.
A model of a sanitary closet. con-
constructed according TO the plans
of DR.. Charles Wardell Stiles, the
noted hook-worm expert, is also on
exhibition. From the Ohio Cream
cry and Dairy Supply Company are
milk coolers, pals and aeorators Of
the latest designs.
Constructed according to the plans
furnished by the United States DE.
partment of Agriculture is the frame
work of a model dairy in miniature.
From the department of DR.. Ham,
ilton P. Jones, Food Commissioner,
is an interesting exhibit prepared
by State Analyst George 3. Taylor.
This consists of wooden baby socks,
which were formerly pure white but
were died various hues from the COL
oring matter extracted from pop,
candy, af.er-dinner cordials, etc.
There is also All exhibit of bacilli
cultures prepared by Dr.. Jones,
showing the effects of fly contami-
nation. One of these cultures was
held under an unclean cow for only
two minutes and from the bacteria
gathered a guinea pig was inoculat-
ed and died within ten hours of per-
itonitis. The pig is also a pant of
the exhibit.
There are also exhibited model
desks and schools seals and school
blinds, an exhibit furnished by F.
F. Hansell & Bros, and the Amer
lean Seating Company.
An interesting pathological exhib-
it of preventable disease prepared by
DR.. Charles w. Deval, by courtesy
of Tulane University, is also in the
car. 1t shows parts affected by tu-
berculosis, typhoid, dysentery ,pneu-
monia, etc., with microscopic Sec
lions of tissue, showing the inroads
of the bacteria. There are also mi
croscopes and other appalati furn-
ished by Finley, Dicks & Co., and
I. l.. Lyons & Co. There is, in fact,
a complete clinical labatoiy outfit,
to make analyses of blood sputum,
milk and other substances. Some
interesting charts showing the food
values of various foods ale exhibit
ed. These were prepared by DR..
Gustave Mann, the biologist of Tu-
lane University. A chart showing
the relative constituent parts of the
human body is also exhibited.
Located in one end of the car is
an oral hygiene exhibit prepared by
DR.. William Ernest Walker. The
casts exhibited show the injurious
effects of not taking proper care OF
the teeth, and from infants sucking
thumbs and Of breathing through
the mouth, and of the detection Of
teeth caused by bad teeth extrac-
tions. This exhibit is said to be one
of the first of its kind ever exhibited
in Louisiana.