here? I told Dr Spelman that they might just as well set their 1 Q"7 

 formaldehyde generator on top of one of these hills and let 

 her go; or throw so much formaldehyde solution per month 

 in the Warm Springs creek. In this way they would spend 

 just as much appropriation and avoid giving the inhabitants 

 a false sense of security. Their method doesn't touch even 

 moist cultures. The apathy of the physicians concerned is 

 disgusting. Fortunately, one meets fine exceptions (like Drs 

 Spelman & McKenzie) and is preserved from early pessimism. 

 But I can see that it will be a continual fight, for the public 

 too, is most thoughtless. It has grown to expect these things 

 and cannot imagine better conditions. . . . 



Well, I think I've done pretty well for a man who didn't 

 go to sleep until three this morning. If you won't tell anyone 

 I'll confess something. You see I had to wait three hours for 

 a train last night and Butte is such a tough place that I went 

 to see "Monsieur Beaucaire" in self-defense. [It was Sunday.] 

 That story is better than 90% of the sermons one hears — 

 or, I should say, has heard. 



P S — I couldn't help falling in love with the heroine, Lady 

 Marie, for like you, she marries her love though he is poor, but 

 unlike you, finds that in loving a barber she has won a prince! 



May 1, 1906 — I gave Elsie four grains of quinine this morn- 

 ing to drive out any parasites latent in her spleen and this 

 afternoon found her blood full of adult parasites — two or 

 three in every field of the microscope. Poor child, she has an 

 awful time with the combination of whooping cough and 

 malaria. 



May 6, 1906 — To-day I expressed Ricketts some media, 

 worked on some cultures, made two diphtheria diagnoses and 

 cultures from the blood of two young fellows who are sus- 

 pected of typhoid. They had an epidemic, milk or oysters I 

 suspect, in the school in Spokane and about twenty were ill 

 and some died. The school was closed and the boys came home 

 a few days ago and just developed symptoms. So you see the 

 diagnosis work is progressing. 



May 7, 1906 — It looks very much as if we were going to be 

 at the head of the Union in public health matters. I have been 

 talking notification and laboratory control of infectious dis- 



