The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1913. HEALTH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 96, 27 August 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1913. HEALTH.

i . . " 7 I Teaching tire principles of sanitation I by visual demonstration is the latest American method of helping the people on the road to good health. In the Natural History .Museum at New j York there is now a Hall of Health, j and by means by its very clever installations scientific facts are, made plain to the most ordinary mind. A feature of tho exhibition is a model of a 'Hy, perfect in every detail, but las big as a cat in size. It is conIstructed of blown glass, steel, wire, and -celluloid, and is the product of nine months of patient toil hy the senlp-jtor-prepirator, M Jgnaz Xatansch. It | is 01,000 times greater than the livling fly. and reproduces its anatomy in I every detail. The manner in which the disease genus are carried and •j scattered broadcast by the deathIdealing insect is brought home to j everyone who sees this wonderful model, and the injunction to | “swat that fly” is likely to he vigorj ously followed from this out in New York. What would he of special inj terest to many New Zealanders are I the excellent models of ill-kept and [of well-kept farms. It is there for everyone to mark how the lotting manure heap breeds' flies, how water becomes polluted, how the dairy alid the slaughterhouse may heroine a public menace hy defective sanitation and careless methods. How evil is the mien garbage barrel, and tho great danger (if dirty premises are displayed in the exact reproduction of a. section of a kitchen in Srn Francisco, made when the bubonic scare was at its height. It shows how the rats burrow, how they build their nests, and how they spread disease. The pollu-

tion of oyster bods and ocean beaches is realistically represented, and the mentis of disease, many thousands ot limes their actual size, are displayed in wonderful-glass counterfeits. the horrors there lore become very real, and, people cannot help hut realise that dirt means danger every time. The aid ot that wondrous modern help to education is called in also, and moving pictures do their share in. supplementing the instruction conveyed by the wonderful collection of models. Telling dramas of the spread and the combating of disease tiro enacted before hundreds of students. The Museum’s department of health has been in existence for two years, but the opening of the Hall of Health is considered to be the most' important step it has taken towards bringing the public into touch with the institution’s activities. Even to read what those activities are is at least helpful.