The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-29
ARMY VACCINATION
 MADE COMPULSORY

Washington. August 2s.-Vaccination against typhoid was made compulsory today for every officer and enlisted man in the United States army under AS years of age. The only exceptions all lowed by the war. department are those who have had the disease or who al- ready have been vaccinated. The action was taken by the Secres tary of War on recommendation of Sur geon General George II. Torney The army physicians are enthusiastic over the efficiency of anti-typhoid innocula- tion.
 the cards of it's own members, show ing their correct address, the number ages and sex of every member of their families. which ones are church mem bers which ones have church letters in their trunks, which ones attend church and how often, and which ones attend Sunday school and how often. Also the cards of all in it's neighborhood who express preference for that church and of all who express no church pref erence.
 Great Awakening Immediately following the taking of this census a quickening of the relig- ious life of Birmingham Is confidently expected. It will work in perfectly with the Men and Religion movement. and will have for its electrical motive the force generated at the training school to be conducted by the most noted specialists of the North American continent.
 Gathering the Fruits Every church and Sunday school will be expected to organize and permanent ly maintain a regular home visitation department. This will be like the home visitation organization for the entire city, but on smaller scale. covering only the territory from which it's mem bers are drawn Churches in the same vicinity may he recommended to join together and divide out their common territory between themselves so that only one church will look after any one block, making report to each of it's col iegues of all people of Its demonmina- tloh moving in or out of that block auring the year. Then no block will nave more than one person checking it and every block will certainly be checked by someone-there will he m overlapping and no overlooking In this way complete check will be kept on the religious life of everybody, on every block in Greater Birmingham Of course. each church will look a fter all
 
 bers, wherever located. For instance If certain block is assigned to Presbyterian visitor and Methodist family moves on that block the visitor in charge of that block will report tbe fact with name and address, to inc visitation superintendent or pastor of the nearest Methodist church. who will immediately call and invite the new conner to his own church and thereafter look after them.
 Chicago Home Visitation
 Such visitation was undertaken in Chicago on exactly the same day lest year. Nearly two million people were visited on Saturday afternoon. It was de- clared the most wonderful quickenlng the Windy City has ever known, and q per- son in close touch with it's results had this to say:
 '''rhe printed invitation to attend the Sunday school and church preferred, given fin this personal way to more than two million people, making it impossible to for one of them to say No man cared for my soul. and the experience of this systematic personal work to the 12,d0O to 1i,0c0 visitors engaged in it, make this one of the greaest movements ever ob- served. still the greatest results are vet to come from the locating of more than a million people who were not affiliated with any Sunday school and church and the placing of them in touch with the Sun cay schools and churches of their choice
 ''The results show that Chicago churches and Sunday schools of all faiths are Going splendid work, and reveal also their great opportunity and grave responsibility for the reaching. teaching and saving of the thousands and thousands of people from all the world, now at their very dorrs, but outside of the Sunday school and church. The most careful estimates iidi- cate that some 946,9G0 attend church and 2S3. 300 attend Sunday school. A few more than 40,5o0 unpaced church letters were reported to the churches of like fields"