Show HOW THINGS GET STARTED Indianapolis News New News As s health commissioner going from place to o place over the tin state In Inspecting solitary sanitary conditions I 1 often I run against ludicrous Interpretations of ot I the most minor steps taken because of my ny ideas of hygiene and sani cant sanitation sanitation I tation said Dr J N Hurty secre secretary tary Ear of the state board buard b of health and state tate health commissioner These In tn ons find their way into the newspapers in the smaller towns and I I I Frequently find myself put to it to go goo goto goto to o considerable trouble to explain away false alee impressions Impre slon Not long Ions ago I was called to a aC county C not far from Indianapolis to look into the sanitary In a village whore where smallpox had broken out outOn outOn On arriving at the county s seat at shortly before noon I made a survey of the th hotels of the place and decided that I put up with the conditions about them so I went to a grocery store and bought three fresh eggs a box of factory sealed biscuits and some Orne bananas banana While in the grocery store I broke the eggs and swallowed them raw mw The bananas and biscuits I placed in the buggy bugg I had called and ate them while on the way wa to the infected village On my return to the county seat late in the afternoon I was handed a copy COP of an afternoon newspaper published In Inthe Inthe inthe the town and found to my surprise that Dr Hurty ate raw eggs as a pre preventive preventive against smallpox A reporter had been told by U the grocer that I ate the eggs In the store and proceeded to misinform the readers readell of his hi paper that by sucking raw ra eggs one could go po Into a smallpox infected district with no danger of catching the disease di eat e That Thatis is the way a lot of beliefs are arc generated which the state board of health IB Is Ies spending s thousands of dollars to dissipate dissipate pate |