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Show TEST OF A COMMUNITY'S INTELLIGENCE. Pointed paragraphs from the United States public health service are issued issu-ed regular, and thoso for UiIb week include the following: Sags in roof-gutters may act as mosquito mo-squito breeding places. America's most valuable crop Is babies. The public cigar-cutter is a health menace. The typhoid rate measures accurately accur-ately community intelligence. Whooping cough annually kills over ten- thousand Americans. Bad housing produces bad health. Rocky Mountain spotted fever is spread by a woodtlck. Tho statement that tho typhoid rate measures community Intelligence, is rather strong, but not far wrong. Any city or town that today neglectB to take precautionary measures against typhoid by keeping down the fly-evil, by oiling mosquito swamps or ponds, guarding the water supply and enforc- Inrr eflu'n rrfl Willi nrnnni. vAnnM.i e disposing of the excreta oU typhoid ty-phoid patients, Is committing an unpardonable un-pardonable offense and exhibits stupidity stu-pidity or lack of understanding of tho benefits of modern sanitation. |