Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-26
canned LECTURES
|NHEALTH CRUSADE
Federal Bureau Plans for Ma
tionaI Campaign to Pre-
vent Disease.
PICTURES AND TEXT ON
HYGIENE AND SANITATION
Aims to Spread Gospel of Prevention
Into Every Household in Ameri-
can Territory.

Canned" lectures on hygiene and
sanitation is the newest idea of the
United States public health service in
its campaign to educate the public in
matters of health and disease proven
ton. part of the crusade which has for
its goal Of achievement the eradication
Of preventable disease from American
territory.
At present these canned" lectures are
card mounts. intended for distribution,
upon application. among schools. libra
ries and elsewhere that a demand has
been created for this sort Of informa-
ton The same lectures are, in the near
future. to be read into the photograph
and distributed on phonograph record
plates and cylinders.
Each lecture consists of a number of
pictures on given hygienic or sanitation
topics, each picture accompanied by
text explaining it fully. The pictures
are also made for stereopticon slides, so
that they can be shown on a screen
While the lecturer reads descriptive mat
ter from the accompanying card
On the topic of typhoid fever there are
ninety-five slides, with accompanying
text, assembled for one lecture. Other
lectures concern infectious diseases,
typhus. malaria and general sanitary
conditions.
Purely Educational Publicity.
The campaign of the United States
public health service is concerned with
purely educational publicity Its aim is
to spread the gospel of hygiene and
sanitation into every household and to
every man. woman and child who has
ears to hear and eyes to see, and will
stop. look and listen and receive and
retain benefit.
The stereopticon library of the public
health service is most important adj
junct of its educational campaign. Pri-
marily, the material in the stereopticon
library is intended for the use of the sur
geonS of the public health service, to aid
them in the lectures they are called upon
to deliver everywhere over the United
States.
There are now several thousand ster-
eopticon slides assembled in the stereop-
ticon library. This number is constantly
being added to both by acquisition from
outside sources and the great number
being made constantly by the public
health service corps. Each slide is num-
bered and filed away. There are dupli-
Gates of most of them.
Each slide is represented by a card
In the card index file. On the card is a
print of the picture on the slide and
also a description of what it represents
There is also a catalogue of the contents
of the s.ereopticon library, in which is
recorded every slide under every topical
head which will indicate the varied posi-
bilities of its usefulness to illustrate "a
hygienic or sanitary theme
In the ordinary course of events nearly
every surgeon Of the public health serv-
Ice is called upon to deliver lectures on
hygiene or sanitation. His assignment
may bring him to Washington. or he may
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away on service. may be expected TO
deliver lecture somewhere near their
station. and may not come to Washing
ton. All surgeons are provided with the
stereopticen library catalogue.
Adequate Object Lessons.
Those who are in Washington have ac-
cess to the stereopticon library. The
surgeon preparing for lecture will con-
suit the catalogue and determine what
the stereopticon library affords to Hum
inc his theme. Then he proceeds to the
stereopticon library and assemblies the
slides and descriptive matter that he
finds best suit his purpose These are
packed for him and he takes them with
him or they are sent to his destination
by express.
For the surgeon who cannot look over
the stereopticon library. the method is
modified to his needs. He consults the
catalogue, writes for the matter he de-
sires from the stereopticon library. and
il is forwarded to him.
Specially made boxes have been pre-
pared for the shipment of those slides
and text These boxes afford perfect pro-
lection and loss by breakage is unheard
Of
The slides vary in usefulness. The
quality that marks them as good, bad or
indifferent pictures is marked against
them in the catalogue, so the lecturer
may know the worth of what he asks
for before II comes to him. saving him
the unpleasant surprise of finding slide
that will not show of properly.
Besides photographs and reproductions
there are a great number of suggestive
drawings intended to give an adequate
object lesson, easily understood and gen
orally comprehensive. Such, for instance,
is drawing 10 illustrate the topic of ty-
phoid fever. tracing the source and meth
cd of infection.