ON STREAMS WHERE THERE IS A PERMANENT FEOW OF WATER, DRIP-CANS ARE 

 INSTAEEED TO FURNISH A CONSTANT FILM OF OIL FOR SUCH STREAMS 



The box lid, now turned down, is closed and locked after the can is filled with oil. The 

 faucet on the drip-can is adjusted so that from twenty to thirty drops of oil per minute fall 

 upon the water surface through a small opening in the bottom of the box. The padlocks on 

 all drip-can boxes are opened with one master-key. The photograph was made on Swaggerty 

 Creek, within the limits of the city of Little Rock. 



the company the necessity for adequate 

 toilet facilities. No action was taken. 

 Again he brought the matter to their at- 

 tention, this time in writing. Still there 

 was no result. The case was taken into 

 court, and the railway company fined 

 $50 and directed to start work immedi- 

 ately. In reporting this incident to the 

 Bureau, the officer in charge expressed 

 his regret at being obliged to take this 

 course of action, because, he said, "I 

 had hoped to conduct this entire cam- 

 paign without a single arrest." 



Space does not afford to tell the story 

 in its entirety — to describe the methods 



by which over 60,000 civilians in the 

 extra-cantonment zones alone have been 

 voluntarily vaccinated against typhoid 

 fever since the 1st of July; of the way in 

 which the medical inspection of schools 

 has been instituted at various points ; of 

 the methods pursued in securing the 

 active cooperation of recalcitrant coun- 

 cilmen in the passage of milk ordinances 

 which had hitherto been opposed by 

 reason of financial interests in the dairies. 

 Whole rural communities in which a 

 few months ago not a single family was 

 supplied with sanitary outhouses, now 

 dispose of their excreta in concrete 



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