The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-10-23
PLANS ARE MADE
FOR NEW MUSEUM
Institution to Promote SAM
tary Living by Lectures
and Exhibits.
JONATHAN WINFIELD.


which will go one degree further to-
wards establishing the Capital of the
United States as world-renowned
seat of scientific learning.
1t is proposed by Rupert Blue, Sur
geonGeneral OF the United States
public health service to erect in the
capital city museum of hygiene and
sanitation. The purpose of this mu-
scum is to show the public the dan
gers which they have to fear if they
are needless of the rules laid down
for proper and sanitary living. 1t Is
believed by the surgeon general that
this will prove splendid means OF
instructing the people. Surgeon Blue
holds that the public may be divided
into halves: One, the enlightened
purely intellectual basis; the other,
those who may be educated only
through fear. For the first half there
will be lectures at the museum, at
tendance upon which will provide an
opportunity to learn the secrets of san
itary living. For the second half
there will be actual exhibits, showing
the effects of disease. OF course,
these means of learning will be open
to both classes, but it is believed that
by providing these two means both
classes will be more certainly reached.
The exhibits will be very compre-
hensive There will be models of
parts of the human anatomy, par
taking of the nature of Mrs. Jarley's
wax-workers, and upon these models
may be traced life-like reproductions
of the ravages of disease. Examina-
ton of these models will be sufficient
to instill fear into the beholder, and
as a result greater care in self-pre-
servation is expected.
Source Of Idea.
Surgeon General Blue derived his
idea from the Exhibit which the Fiji
teenth International Congress on Hy-
giene and Demography held here last
month. That exhibit was held in the
Red Cross building and was attended
by thousands of persons who evinced
such interest in the objects displayed
an din the lectures given, that it is
believed a permanent exhibit would
be equally popular and instructive.
Secretary of the Treasury McVeagh
has heartily endorsed Surgeon Blues
proposition and it is more than likely
that a bill, which will be introduced
at the coming session Of congress,
will pass. OF course this congress
sional authorization will have to come
before any actual work can be done.
on the museum. But the consensus
of opinion here is that the PROPOSE
ton will meet with little If any op-
position.
Should the money be appropriated,
the museum will, in all probability,
be located on the Mall, the broad
stretch of parkway extending from the
Capitol to the Washington monument.
It is planned to flank this parkway
with public buildings and, a large
amount of ground has already been
condemned for the erection of these
new buildings. Many public buildings
standing there at present, notably the
new National museum, the old Smith
sonian institute, the new department
of agriculture building. The new
buildings for the state, war, navy and
commerce and labor departments and
that for the department of justice
are to. be placed along the Mall.
Plans of Museum.
Exhibits of many kinds will be
placed within the proposed museum
of hygiene and sanitation. There will
be model dairies, model slaughter
houses, model poultry yards. There
will be model operating rooms, fully
equipped, model camps, such as are
made by the United States armies;
sick room appliances will be shown
in all their glory and there will be
charts by the score, giving facts and
figures on how to live
Symptoms of disease will be care
fully described an dthe scope and
measurements of every ailment which
is known to man will be literally and
extensively dwelt upon, and the symp-
toms thereof exhaustively exposed.
Many of the exhibits will be pro-
vided by the government, many by
hospitals. and many by manufacturers.
1t is considered that manufacturers
of surgeons tools and doctors acces-
series will be glad to contribute ar
ticles~ of their production to help
make the museum complete ex-
hibit.
1t is planned to employ. large
staff of experts in hygiene and sani-
tation to take charge of the exhibit
and to deliver lectures on how the
various functions of life should be
hygienically and sanitarily performed.
These experts also will be employed
in collecting data on their subject and
1t is possible the museum may publish
magazine on hygiene and santa
ton.
One of the supplementary sugges-
tions of the surgeon general is that
two schools ne conducted under the
auspices of the proposed museum.
One of them would be a school for
nurses where the calling of the doc
tors helpers, who, it is declared, are
becoming more and more important
in the medical world may be prop
erly and officially taught. The other
school would be one where any per
son could come for free instruction
as to the proper means of warding off
plague and pestiience These schools
would be as complete in their fash
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