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ter destruction. Not a person who saw 

 them but carried the lesson home and 

 viewed his own premises with critical eyes. 



Two teachers in the manual training 

 school of Toledo, Ohio, while on the way 

 to school were discussing the dangers of 

 dirt. They found a chip of wood, and 

 stooping down scooped up less than a tea- 

 spoonful of dirt from the street, carri'ed it 

 to the laboratory, put it in a culture tube, 

 and when a week or two later a professor 

 from Johns Hopkins University happened 

 along this tube was shown to him. Among 

 many other germs the tube contained the 

 well developed bacilli of typhoid, of scarlet 

 fever, of diphtheria, of tuberculosis, and 

 two other bacilli so rare that permission was 

 asked to take the tube back to the univer- 

 sity in order to see if they could be classi- 

 fied. Toledo's dirt is duplicated in every 

 city in the world, and it is not agreeable to 

 think of carrying such matter into the 

 house, where, swept up in dust it fills orr 

 lungs with deadly germs. 



The only comfort science gives us is that, 

 following a law of nature, the big bacilli are 

 forever destroying the little bacilli, so that 

 while we are constantly breathing these 

 deadly germs into our systems, yet it is only 

 when conditions are favorable that disease 

 develops. Let each city, town and village 

 build to the god UncleanJiness altars called 

 crematories and sacrifice to him therein all 

 that are his. Let the fire burn perpetually, 

 so that his servant Disease, finding no more 

 work to do, will lay himself on the altar as 

 a final sacrifice ; and in the places made va- 

 cant by Uncleanliness and Disease let flow- 

 ers bloom that their fragrance may ascend 

 as a sweet incense to the god of Health, and 

 as an acknowledgement that his servant 

 Cleanliness has followed the command to 

 let in a little sunshine. 



Science, the other name for common 

 sense, concedes that cremation is the only 

 way in which garb^ige, offal and waste of 



all sorts may safely be disposed. The pol- 

 lution of our streams and rivers by city sew- 

 age should be made a criminal act. Mr. 

 Kipling says the soil of India is so impreg- 

 nated with the filth of agetj that a fall which 

 grazed the skin has been known to cause 

 lockjaw within a few days. Let us keep 

 America wholesome. Jacksonville is one 

 of the thirty-three cities using a typical cre- 

 matory. It is a combination of three fur- 

 naces of fire brick ; one to burn the solids, 

 one for evaporating and burning the liquids, 

 and a " combination chamber " in the stack 

 to completely decompose and burn the 

 vapors. Garbage, " combustible waste," 

 night soil and dead animals are dumped 

 into the furnaces through circular openings 



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Fig. 2647. Galvanized Wire Rubbish Basket 

 • FOR Street Use. 



This baskst is strongly recommended by the Thomasville, Ga. , 

 Association, because the contents may be butned in the basket. It 

 is a good idea for an association in small towns, where theie is no 

 municipal collection of was. e. 



