Popular science monthly . verj^ possiblespot that might breed germsof infection has been instruc-tive. Every department of the municipalgovernment is co-operating with theMayor, the Red Cross, the citysphysicians, an army of nurses in addition,and federal auth(jrities. Health Com-missioner Emerson has called out NewYorks one thousand home guards—citizens trained under police direction forpublic dut\ in time of crisis—to join inthe. crusade. The motion-j)icture theaters have beenbarred against children, as have thepublic playgrounds and recreation of the large film companies hasissued
Popular science monthly . verj^ possiblespot that might breed germsof infection has been instruc-tive. Every department of the municipalgovernment is co-operating with theMayor, the Red Cross, the citysphysicians, an army of nurses in addition,and federal auth(jrities. Health Com-missioner Emerson has called out NewYorks one thousand home guards—citizens trained under police direction forpublic dut\ in time of crisis—to join inthe. crusade. The motion-j)icture theaters have beenbarred against children, as have thepublic playgrounds and recreation of the large film companies hasissued fifty prints of a special release onthe subject which will be exhibited in allthe theaters and on motor-trucks equip-ped with translucent screens. A lecturerfrom the New York Board of Healthaccompanies each of the trucks andlectures to parents as the film picturesare projected on the screen. .At first,when the plague was confined to NewYork City, the film company planned togive the illustratetl lectures only in local. districts but this ]jlan hasbeen altered and the printsare being sent all over, evento Melbourne, Australia,where the theaters have been(Kjsed because of the epidemicthere too. As a precautionary*measure the New York CityHealth Department has itsnurses making house-to-housecan\asses. Other acts ofpre\ention are the nightlywashing of streets in theinfected districts, the exclu-sion of all household pets fromsick rooms, careful screeningfrom flies and insistence uponthe utmost cleanliness. It is the belief that thedisease was introduced fromSouthern Italy by im-migrants fleeing fromthe war zone. Thefirst cases reported inNew York City werein an Italian sectionnear the Brooklynwaterfront, where .theepidemic of 1907 firstappeared. Then the mortality was five per cent; the presentrate is about twenty per cent. In 1907the victims numbered two thousand fivehundred. What makes the situation the moreserious is the fact that medical sciencedoes not know
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