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Show ADULTJ OFCiLA AYD AffOPElS 1 A.OLSX JOlLCTArS, 8. AWfiHfLES i fHERE is a photograph shown at Health Exhibitions Exhi-bitions which many people at tirst sight take for a picture of the 'crusts on the surface sur-face of ihe moon, or of the canals on the planet Mars. What it really shows is a circular UffJS'Sj plate containing a gela-!QiQQ gela-!QiQQ tin culture of the con-sumption con-sumption germ the tubercle bacillus. This plate to begin with was a perfect blank a tabula vasa, as the ancient Romans used to call their tablet before writing on it. But there soon developed on this gelatin gela-tin plate letters about as ominous as those which the Prophet Daniel point-ed point-ed out to Belshazzar at his royal feast. Here is the way of it : The laboratory doctor had put on that plate a fly that had got his feet stuck in the spittle of a consumptive; and he had then covered the whole with a glass jar so that the fly could not get away. This insect, thus heavy footed, then promenaded all over the plate. Twenty-four hours later colonies col-onies of the consumption germs, made up of uncountable millions of those tubercle bacilli, developed on its tracks. You may think I exaggerate when I compare this fact of the gelatin plate' with the Prophet Daniel and the writing on the wall, says a writer in the Detroit Free Press. Well, be that as It may, I ask you only to reflect how consumption has aip to this time been carrying off every third or fourth of us between adolescence and maturity; matur-ity; that in all the wars of the nineteenth nine-teenth century (Including those of Napoleon). Na-poleon). 14.000,000 succumbed, while 3,000,000 succumbed to consumption, consump-tion, the captain of the men of death; that the advanced consumptive day by day coughs and spits out several sever-al thousand millions of the tubercle bacilli ; that consumption, besides being be-ing a disease. Is the most dreadful economic and social degeneracy in civilization; that this great White Plague exists largely by reason of human hu-man supineness and neglect of the simplest sim-plest precepts of hygiene and sanitation. sanita-tion. The Babylonian king did not heed the warning which lay In the writing on the wall. By heeding the lesson that lies In that little gelatin plate we shall be veryffar on the way, we and our fellow men and women, of banishing the tuberculosis which it represents from human experience and from off the face of the earth. Of course, flies are not the only agency In the spread of tuberculosis; for they are nctive but a few months of the year, whilst that disease Is contracted con-tracted all the year round. Flies Swell Infant Death Rate. It Is certain also that flies help greatly to swell the Infant death rate, which Is greatest In the fly season. There are few more congenial culture media for germs than milk, especially amid the uncleanllness which obtains In the houses of very many poor people, peo-ple, especially in the tenements. This fluid easily becomes contaminated by flies and with the noxious matter that is continually clinging to their hairy feet, their spongy bodies and their fluffy wings. Tuberculosis is thus certainly cer-tainly contracted by children, as are the various forms of dysentery, practically prac-tically all of which are germ ailments. Hreast fed Infants seldom have such diarrheas, whilst bottle fed babies have them all too frequently. Typhoid fever Is so often transmitted hy flies that doctors speak of this Insect as the tvphoid fly. It pollutes food and drink, especially your milk, butter and sugar by means of the material which |