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died out, I secured a book of the medical 

 histories and bill books of the late Dr. "T." 

 and there found the history of this child's 

 father some thirty years before; and that 

 is why he never went into business? Shall I 

 tell her to take her daughter to the best spe- 

 cialists in syphiHs, so that with two years 

 careful treatment she will be well and 

 cured; or, shall I let her remain in igno^^ 

 ance and allow her remaining child to die? 



THE IMPOETANCE OF THE HEALTH 

 OF THE AMEEICAN HOG. 



We have machinery instituted by laws lo 

 touch every activity of our industries. Did 

 I live in Wichita, Kansas, and telegraph the 

 United States Department of Health that 

 my children were threatened by an epidemic 

 of scarlet fever that was killing my neigh- 

 bors' children by the hundred, they would 

 refer me to my local or State health officers. 

 But, should I telegraph the Department 

 that my hogs were threatened by a new epi- 

 demic of cholera or foot and mouth disease, 

 they would at once telegraph back that they 

 were sending a carload of experts to stamp 



