THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



island in 1534, said that "these islands were as full of birds 

 as any meadow is of grass . . ." Return to the South 

 Pavilion and enter the 



WEST CORRIDOR 

 Public Health 



'All diseases quenched by Science, no man halt 

 or deaf or blind.' 



Tennyson. 



In a prominent position in the entrance way is a bronze 

 bust of Louis Pasteur, the founder of modern bacteriology, 

 to whose researches we are indebted for the establishment 

 of the germ theory of disease. 



Directly in the foreground is a case containing a remark- 

 able model of the flea, 120 times the length of the actual 

 insect, in bulk the equal of 1,728,000 fleas. 



Near-by is a model of the body louse, the carrier of 

 typhus fever, one hundred times the length of the insect 

 itself, and adjacent and more noticeable than ei'her of the 

 above, a model of the fly, over twelve inches long and hav- 

 ing the bulk of 64,000 flies. This is the finest model of its 

 kind ever made and more than a year of constant work was 

 required to construct it. The deadly work of the fly as a 

 disease carrier and the practical methods by which it may 

 be controlled are illustrated in adjacent cases. 



At the left is an exhibit dealing with the natural source 



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