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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, 19 10, 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, 19 10. 



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 



