Evening star., 1915-01-03
TREASURY WILL HAVE
INTERESTING EXHIBITS
Arrangements Made for Many
Novel Features at San Fran
cisco Fair.
Health Service to Show Ravages of
Disease and How to Com
bat Spread.

Government mlnterS Will coin medals
instead Of money; plate printers will
print stamps. and engraved portraits
such as ornaments and paper currency;
federal life savers will be ready, if
necessary. to save life, and will dem
onstrate how they go about it for ex-
hibition purposes; there will be display
of the activities of the revenue cutter
service in preserving life and prop
erty at sea. and the sort of public
buildings Uncle Sam erects for federal
purposes will be shown as a display
of the activities of the Treasury De-
partment at the Panama-Pacif1c expo
sition at San Francisco.
To cap all, the public health service,
which has nearly two-fifths of the ap-
preparation devoted to the Treasury
Department exhibit, is going to pop
ularize its gigantic effort to clear the
United States of catching disease, and
show what it is doing to make the
nation more clean in habits and more
healthful In physique. me pubic
health service is spreading on its ex-
hibit, in the aim to make its purposes
known and approved, far and near.
The Treasury Department has $3S,oo0
to spend of the total appropriation or
$4,000 900 for government exhibits. Or
this amount, $4,000 Is devoted to the
display of the public health service, by
special allotment of the government
board OF managers. James L. Nilmetn,
chief clerk of the Treasury Depart
ment, has had direction or the prepara-
tion of the exhibit.
Exhibit in Three Buildings.
The exhibit will be made in three e1-
position buildings; the public health
service and the supervising architect
will display in the Liberal Arts build
ing, where 1924 feet of floor space
has been assigned: thu bureau of en-
craving and printing and the United
States mint have 3,727 square feet in
the Mines and Metallurgy building,
and there are 1,420 square feet for the
exhibit of the revenue cutter service
in the Machinery building. The life
saving service is doing without a money
appropriation or allotment of space at
the exposition. and will demonstrate
Point on the Presidio at San Fran
cisco.
The big exhibit of the public health
the Liberal Arts building.
Latest Methods to Be Shown.
A popular and comprehensive dis
play of latest methods of preventing
common communicable diseases will
be shown. There will be set up models
of public health stations, including a
hospital. a quarantine station and a
detention camp.
: In treating of the various diseases
the display Will attempt to show the
causes of diseases, the remedy and
methods of prevention. For instance,
in considering typhoid, the story of the
bacillus carrier will be told, which
means that not only human agencies
will be presented, but the common
house fly will be condemned as an
enemy of health and the. possibilities
of infection through milk by contact
with convalescents and through other
agencies will be shown. Suspicion will
be directed against the seemingly in
nocent- oyster. Infection of public
streams will come In for blame, as will
other sources of water supply.
Diseases to Be Treated.
Malaria, parasytical diseases, occupa-
tionaI diseases. yellow fever, smallpox,
tuberculosis rabies. Rocky mountain
spotted fever, typhus fever, trachoma,
diphtheria and miscellaneous diseases
also will be considered Which means
that the flea, the louse, the rat the
squirrel and other contemporaries of
man in the insect and vertebrate king
dom will come In for. denunciation as
disease distributors
The economic loss through prVEent-