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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



BOYS OE WESTERN MARYLAND, 



Photograph by Earle Harrison 

 WHERE A GREAT HEALTH BATTLE IS TO BE WAGED 



Washington County, Maryland, of which Hagerstown is the county seat, is about to be 

 made the greatest field laboratory for preventive medicine in the world. It is a typical, 

 prosperous American community of sixty thousand, equally divided between rural and urban 

 population. The agencies supporting the work will investigate all epidemics, frame rules 

 for their elimination, provide a staff of visiting nurses, and cooperate with the local physicians 

 to make this the country's model of what a community should be in matters of health. 





