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Show Rural Sanitation By J. E. Greaves, Professor of Bacteriology Bac-teriology nnd Physiological Chemistry, Chemis-try, Ctah Agricultural College It Is quite generally believed that g-wd health is favorably the accompaniment accom-paniment of rural life. Do we not find in the country "district the rosy-cheeked rosy-cheeked urchins who seem to be bubbling bub-bling over with life and whose playgrounds play-grounds and workshops are the fields and the forests? They live in homes quite isolated and they have nn abundance abun-dance of fresh air and sunshine. Their (ood consists of the fresh fruits, vege-'ables, vege-'ables, and a liberal supply of new nHk which has been produced on tlia farm and hence hns not had to run tha gauntlet of infection as does the city milk. The vigorous exercise in the open air is conducive to good health, nd do not we often hear it stated that ' vte population of the city must be rwruited from the country every fourth or fifth generation". Such ar the ordinary beliefs, hut what are tha tacts? In the face of all these natural advantages ad-vantages recent surveys made in a number of cities and rural districts disclose the fact that premature, preventable pre-ventable deaths are more numerous in the country than in the city. That typhoid, dysentary, and other Intestl. sal diseases are the dangers of the ountry nnd not of the city. Tha smoldering embers of our communicable commun-icable diseases which at times are fan-led fan-led Into real epidemics exist in the ountry to a gre.iter extent than in the ity. Tuberculosis, that disease which s curable by fresh nir, sunshine, and nourishing diet, exists in some coun-iy coun-iy district to a greater extant than t does in the city. Why this difference? The laws of nitation, which when applied to nima have transformed it from rhe white man's grave" to one of the "st healthful spots on earth, are en-reed en-reed in the city but neglected in the untry. The city has ita specialists ho see to It that the milk and water e not polluted. There are laws cover-' cover-' the eons'ruetion of houses, cess-o!s, cess-o!s, and sewers. Garbage must be perly disposed of, nnd cases of com-nicahle com-nicahle diseases must be quaran. icd until they are not a danger t 1 .ie community. J |