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PREVENTIVE MEDICINES 
Under the auspices of the Parent- 
Teacher association an illustrated 
lecture on ‘‘Preventive Medicines”’ 
was given at the Town hall, Wed- 
nesday evening by Dr. Peer P. John- 
son of Beverly. Dr. Johnson is a 
recognized authority on the subject 
and, as it was an open meeting, the 
hall was crowded. At the outset, 
the speaker defined preventative 
medicines as those which are used 
to prevent the transmission of com- 
municable diseases, particularly dis- 
eases caused by unsanitary condi- 
tions and to reduce the death rate 
of those that are not wholly eradi- 
cable. Cleanliness is the greatest 
factor for health. 
The speaker traced the discoveries 
of preventative medicines from 1795 
when Jenner made the discovery of 
the vaccination, which has so greatly 
reduced the number of small-pox 
cases in the world. In the United 
States in 1914 there were 23,000 
cases of small-pox and 300 deaths 
and in Germany, where vaccination 
is compulsory for everyone, there 
were only seven cases and no deaths. 
A pill was introduced into the Mass- 
achusetts legislature last year to 
make the vaccination of school chil- 
dren optional with the parents. The 
bill passed the Senate, but the House 
of Representatives killed it. Dr. 
Johnson prophesied that, had the 
bill become a law, there would have 
been an epidemic of small-pox in this 
state in a few years, which would 
have equalled that in Montreal a 
few years ago. 
Dr. Johnson spoke of the necessity 
of the co-operation of the public in 
the efforts of science towards sys- 
tematic prevention of epidemics, 
mentioning particularly school in- 
spection, which is a powerful pre- 
ventative agency, and quarantine, 
which is a great factor to prevent 
the spreading of infectious diseases, 
although very inconvenient at times. 
The speaker told many interesting 
facts about bacteria, harmless and 
otherwise, and showed diagrams 
tracing their development. Bacteria 
which carry disease in milk, for ex- 
ample, he dwelt upon. The dangers 
of impure milk were vividly shown 
by the stereopticon views, Sun- 
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light discourages bacteria, in water 
they are quiescent and heat kills 
many of them. If there is the 
slightest doubt about the cleanliness 
of milk it should be pasteurized. 
Milk is a fine carrier of disease and 
the conditions in many milk sheds 
and bottling plants are extremely 
unsanitary. Comparatively few dis- 
eases are carried by the air, but 
many are transmitted by direct con- 
tact such as hand-shaking, kissing, 
use of common drinking cups and 
utensils. 
One great step in the prevention 
of disease is the extermination of 
the fly and mosquito. Flies, parti- 
cularly, are a great menace because 
their poisons are almost invariably 
transmitted to food and thence di- 
rectly to the digestive systems of 
persons. Their breeding places are 
in dirt and filth, so, if perfectly 
sanitary conditions are obtained, 
there will be no flies and very little 
illness. Flies in stable manure 
breed in about ten days, so if the 
manure is removed every week or 
kept in closed dark places where 
they cannot breed, the danger is 
done away with. Garbage cans 
should be kept particularly clean 
and always covered. Malaria, a 
disease prevalent in low, swampy 
lands, was formerly believed to be 
due to the moisture but now to 
mosquitoes which breed in such 
places. Mosquitoes carry germs 
directly from one person to another. 
The lecture was brought to a close 
by a brief dissertation regarding the 
effects of filtration upon the death 
rate of a community, and by a little 
about the hook-worm, from which it 
is estimated there are 2,000,000 peo- 
ple suffering south of the Potomac 
River and east of the Mississippi. 
This plague is responsible for the 
class of Southerners known as 
‘“poor white trash,’’ and when 
science has abolished the hook-worm 
the reclamation of that part of our 
people will be established. 
MANCHESTER 
Hurry up if you would get a re- 
served seat for the musical play 
‘“The New Minister,’’ in which Miss 
Florence Leach, formerly a member 
of the Lindsay Morrison Stock Co. 
takes a leading part. adv. 
In justice to the former caretaker 
of the R. H. Barbour house, and at 
his request, we say in reference to 
the item in last week’s paper that 
the damage to the heating system 
is not more than $450 or $500. The 
radiators and pipes froze during the 
severe cold weather Christmas week, 
Mr. Greenough says, because the 
heat was shut off in radiators in un- 
used part of the house, but the 
water was left in the pipes. He 
says he did not neglect the fire and 
let it go out. 
Oysters, Swett’s Fish Mkt. adv. 
It may be true that matches are 
made in heaven, but observation 
would lead us to believe that most of 
them are made by the girl’s mother. 
Safety first means selecting an af- 
firiity who has the same colored hair 
as your wife. 
When some couples approach the 
altar, you wonder why the groom 
isn’t wearing the bridal veil. 
There is only one way to get along 
with some people, and that is their 
own way. 
About the only man in the world 
who doesn’t want a fat job is the 
living skeleton. 
| Bee MAN who does not advertise 
is like the man in the dark with- 
out a lantern 
He knows where he is 
Nobody else does 
