The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-13
FLEAS BIG AS DOGS
IN WONDERFUL CARGO
Models in Governments Health Elk
hibit for Panama Pacific Exposi-
ton Varied and Extensive.

If the spirit of Morgan, the pr
rate, should take the seas again and
overhaul the United States auxiliary
ship Caesar, as it sails through the
waters which he once infested, that
long deceased pirate would behold the
most wonderful prize cargo which ever
fell into his hands.
IL the boxes containing the exhibit
which is consigned 10 the L. S. pub
lie health service were broken open,
strange and varied would be the OBJ
iects which would be found therein;
many CT them illustrating subjects
which were undreamed of in Morgan 8
dat. There would be small theatre
in which would be shown by heauti-
full paintings the story of a typhoid
bacillus carrier ana how she innocent.
ly spread typhoid fever and brought
sorrow and death TO MANY. Other
models would show how the same dis
ease is spread by flies, oysters and
water, and still other models would
show the influence Of the improvement
Of public water supplies on the
spread Of the disease. There are mos
quitoes in this strange cargo, mosqui-
toes az large as eagles, lifeless TO be
'
life history of this disease carrying
insect from the egg 70 adult mosquito
hood. There would be tleas which
would strike terror TO the heart of the
footing pirate; heas big as dogs; so
exhibited as to demonstrate the man
ner in which they carry plague from
rats &c man, and speaking of rats,
there would be the model of a ratless
ship in which no rodent is permitted
to take passage, and in order to fur
ther discourage this ubiquitous enemy
OF man the exhibit graphically shows
| the various methods which may be en-
| played in its destruction. Poor Nor
gan would certainly rub his eyes in
amazement were ne to see the beauti-
| full blown glass models Of the germs
| which produce the various diseases Of
man, and We're he Il scientist of today
he would 60 into rapturcs over the del
icatelv tinted glass models showing
the lower forms OF vegetable life
which transmute foul and dangerous
sewage into harmless materials. There
* Il model showing the money which
flows ont Of Uncle Sam : pocket every
year to pay the bills for wholly pre-
ventahle diseases; moro money than
Morgan took in his famous sackino OF
{! Panama, q sum fer greater than the
total amount OF his lootings.
When this exhibit is Installed at Sar
Francisco it Will include Il mode
municipal laboratory which viii he en-
gagged in the examination of water fur
nished by common carriers to passcn
gers in interstate traffic. There viii
he models and charts and drawings t.
Illustrate the ravages caused by vel
low fever, smallpox, tuberculosis, ia
bies, Rocky Mountain spotted fever
ltyphus fever, and diphtheria: anC
moving pictures will show the various
methods employed by the public health
service in protecting the health of The
citizens of the United States. This i
the NEST extensive exhibit on hvgicn
and sanitation ever created in tn
United States. and is expected t,
play very vital part in the dissent
nation Of knowledge which the aver
age citizen can utilize as healtl
asset.