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stored for sale, offered for sale, or sold, in order to 
facilitate inspection, and still more recent ordinances 
provide for the registration of stables. An excellent 
campaign was begun during the summer of 1908 
against insanitary lunch rooms and restaurants. A 
number of cases were prosecuted, but conviction was 
found to be difficult for the reasons already mentioned. 
All boards of health should follow, and doubtless 
are following, the very interesting experiment which 
the Louisiana Board is now making, of sending out 
a “Health Train” and visiting one town after another, 
conducting health demonstrations and lectures and 
showing moving pictures which appeal directly to the 
intelligence of every one. Three hundred and fifty 
towns in Louisiana have already .been visited in this 
way, and education on the house fly has been a very 
important part of the work. The first train was sent 
out from New Orleans November 5, 1910, and con¬ 
sisted of two especially equipped cars. An illustrated 
article on the subject was published in the Quarterly 
Bulletin of the Louisiana State Board of Health, i, 
No. 4, November 15, 1910. 
Army Camps 
The severe lessons of the past in regard to fly-borne 
typhoid in army camps have borne fruit, and there is 
reason to believe that among the more civilized nations 
in the future there will be no recurrence of the frightful 
experiences of the summer of 1898 and of those in 
South Africa. It is with the greatest pleasure that the 
