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the new ways of living which the times seem to demand, and for 

 which we are prepared as far as mechanical devices are concerned. 

 We can stop this waste only by co-operative action. 



The difficulties of the present domestic service situation are 

 sufficiently spectacular and sensational to encourage women to 

 experiment with the use of new kinds of apparatus, to reorganize 

 their households, and to make renewed efforts to remove their social 

 and political disabilities. The crisis finds them provided with the 

 means for co-operation and for the establishment of bureaus of 

 information. These means, if fully utilized, should shorten the 

 period of household adjustment to technical development, which is 

 the third and last stage in the improvement of the material con- 

 ditions of household labor. 



SOME ASPECTS OF HOME SANITATION. 



Dr. Walter McNab. Miller, Professor of Pathology and Bacteri- 

 ology at the University of Missouri, spoke on the responsibility of 

 the home in the prevention of the spread of tuberculosis and ty- 

 phoid fever. 



He emphasized the care of the water supply, that it receive no 

 leachings from privies or cesspools; the care of the food supply, 

 that it be protected from dirty-footed flies and dust from dirty 

 places ; the care of the milk supply, that it come from healthy cows, 

 (which should be submitted to the tuberculin test for tuberculosis) 

 and be handled carefully from cow to consumer by clean persons. 



He spoke of the need of sterilizing the sputum and all 

 other discharges of tuberculous patients, and from the bowels of 

 typhoid patients, and of sterilizing everything that came in contact 

 with these discharges. He also emphasized the fact that a person 

 recovering from typhoid fever often carried the germs around in 

 his intestines and urinary bladder for a long time afterwards, even 

 for years, thus continuing to be a source of danger to the com- 

 munity. 



Fresh air, sunshine, absolute cleanliness, and a continuous war- 

 fare against flies, mosquitoes and other insects, are the chief means 

 at our disposal for the prevention of the dissemination of the in- 

 fectious diseases. 



