Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-05
Will Use PICTURES
IN HEALTH CAMPAIGN
"Canned Lectures Find a
Place on Government
Program.
Is THE NEWEST IDEA
Cleaner Streets and Yards and Better
SURROUNDINGS Are Generally
Sought to Help in the
improvement.

Washington, July 4.-The newest
idea of the United States public health
service in its campaign to educate the
public health in promotion and dis
ease prevention, and part of the cru
SADIE which has for it's purpose the
eradication of preventable disease
from the country, is canned lectures y
For the present the lectures are card
mounts for distribution upon aplica-
ton among schools, libraries and
elsewhere, where a demand has been
created for this character of informa-
tion.~ In the near future the same
lectures are to be read into phono-
graph and distributed on records,
plates and cylinders.
Each lecture will consist of num-
Der of pictures on hygiene and SAM
tation, with lectures accompanying to
explain it fully. The pictures are al
SO made for stereoptican slides, so
that they can be shown on a screen
while the lecturer reads descriptive
matter from the accompanying card.
On the topic of typhoid-fever there are
ninety-five slides with accompanying
text, assembled for one lecture 9th
err lectures will concern infectious
diseases. tuberculosis, smallpox, yell
low fever, typhus, malaria and general
sanitary conditions.
The health services campaign is
purely one of education, and to carry
to every person it can reach the ne
necessity of proper hygiene and san
itation. BY ternally hammering it is
hoped to get the people into the drift
of cleaner streets, yards and more
wholesome and healthy surroundings
The campaign puts forward work that
can not be accomplished through law
or police regulation. 1t means that
the citizen is to be personally i'm
pressed with the necessity of keeping
clean and keeping. his surroundings
likewise.
With the idea goes that of good VEN
tilaton for houses. A clean house
without ventilation is of little value
in the health line. Pure air without
clean surroundings will not prevent
disease.
The stereoptican library Of the pub
lie health service is most import
ant adjunct of its educational CAM
paign. Primarily, the material in the
stereoptican library is intended for
the use of the surgeons in the public
health service, to aid them in lectures
they are called upon to deliver
throughout the United States. In the
course of events nearly every surgeon
of the public health service is called
upon to deliver lectures upon hygiene
and sanitation. Those who are in
Washington have access to the stere-
optican library. The surgeon prepar-
ing for lecture will consult the cata-
logue and determine what the library
affords to illuminate his theme. Then
he proceeds to assemble his slides and
descriptive matter best suited for his
purpose.
For the surgeon who can not look
over the stereoptican library the
method is modified as to his needs,
He consults the catalogue, writes for
the material and it is shipped tn
him.
Besides photographs and reproduce
lions there are great number OF
suggestive drawings intended to give
an adequate object lesson, easily UNI
derstood and generally comprehensive.
For instance, there is a drawing to
illustrate the topic of typhoid fever,
tracing the source and method of in
lection.