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Board in respect to tbe sanitary condition of their respective locali¬ 
ties. 
2. The State Board to recommend the more thorough and sys¬ 
tematic study of the sciences of physiology and hygiene in the 
schools of all grades than at present prevails. 
“ 3. To institute measures with the view to prevent the alarming 
prevalence of the crime of ante-natal murder, both in the ranks of 
the profession and outside of it; and lastly, to recommend to the 
profession of the state to do all in its power to educate the masses 
of the people in matters that pertain to their physical well-being 
by means of popular lectures from the rostrum, through the press, 
and by means of tracts. Let the profession once teach the people 
how to eat, how to sleep, how to work — in fact, how to live — and 
many of the diseases that flesh is now heir to will ultimately disap¬ 
pear.” 
SEWERAGE AND DRAINAGE. 
BY SOLON MAKES, M. D., MILWAUKEE, 
Member of the State Boird of Health. 
It is not the purpose of this paper to attempt the advancement 
of anything new upon the subject of sewerage and drainage, as 
many volumes have been written by persons entirely competent to 
fully set forth the importance of sewers and drains, and all the de¬ 
tails of their construction. It is simply the intention to gather 
such facts, from different authors, as shall be of practical benefit to 
those who are interested in preventive or state medicine. 
Notwithstanding all that has been said and written, few persons 
have given thought to the subject, and fewer still have any ade¬ 
quate idea of the importance of these silent, hidden, subterranean 
guardians of the public health. 
HOW SEWEE PIPES SHOULD BE LAID-DECLINATIONS, ETC. 
With regard to the sewers in the cities in our own state, it may 
be said that there is less fault to find with the materials than with 
the manner of laying. We have the hydraulic cement pipe, the 
vitrified clay pipe, and the common brick sewer. 
