The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-01

tiers the tuberculosis and adulterated
food exhibit in the superior court
building this week.
The exhibits which are maintained
free to the public under the direction
of DR.. King and Frank Tucker, under
the auspices of the state board of
health, close tomorrow evening, and
Hammond people still have this even
ing, all day tomorrow and tomorrow
evening to seek the show. DR.. King
announced today that either he or DIR.
]. n. Hurry, the state health commits
sioner, would give free illustrated
lecture under the auspices of the Mems
club in Hammond in the near future.
The lecture will be given at the Mason
ic temple and the general public will
be invited
From Hammond the exhibits will
be taken to Rensselaer, for few days.
Campaign Of Education.
No one who has seen the exhibits
doubts but what they are doing an
unknown amount of good. The gen
Grafton, however, which is now going
to school is the one that is being
looked to for the best results in this
campaign of education. The interest
the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth
grade pupils and tie high school stu
dents take in the exhibit is surpri.-
ing. They are asking questions that
older folks would not think to ask
Some of the children have come back
i two and three times to store their
| minds with the health giving advice
| One physician said relative to the ex-
| hibit: More benefit is to be gained
| from a half hours visit of these ex-
| hibits than from days of study in the
school rooms"
| DIR. King Thanks TIMES.
| The exhibits have received the high
| est Endorsement from all the people
who saw them, and DIR. King and Frank
Tucker, the staet food inspector, are
! pleased.
I'VE surely appreciate the liberal
| space THE TIMES has given us, and
| the manner in which it has treated
the exhibit said DIR. king once we
can get the attention of the public in
this matter we will have cleared orr
path of the the greatest obstacle. Bear
Ing in mind that the keynote to this
whole campaign is the fact that con-
sumption is positively preventable and
durable in its earlier stages, all that is
needed is a campaign of education, and
the public will fight anything that il
knows menaces its health"
Fig Experiment.
II Frank Tucker. the food inspector
told of some of the fly experiments that
are being made in his department He
said that when the typhoid bearing II,
was first discovered, experiments were
made to prove positively that the same
foes which crawl over the offal ant
garbage are the Identical pests which
visit the tables. This experiment wa:
made in the camps of the American sol.
diers in Cuba. Places were found
which were black with flies. The ex.
perimenter poured -four or talcum pow.
der on the insects and awaited results
When mess time came these same pow
dered flies were found on the tab.
tracking the germs which they IA.
picked up on the garbage heap ont,
the foodstuffs of the soldiers. Tha
explains why more soldiers died o
sickness than of gunpowder. The sam,
experiments have been made by Mr.
Tucker in Indiana cities, the only dit
ference being that the particular file
upon whom the experiment was mad
We're flies who carried the consumption
germ and deposited it onto the uncov
cred fruits on the stands
Mr. Tucker also told OF the time
before the pure food law went into #
feet when he and a Hammond police
man stood in front of a certain frui
stand in Hammond at midnight an
watched the rats track their germ
4 laden furs over the fruit on the uncoy
cred stands