DRUGS

SPECIMENS EXAMINED AT LABORATORY OF HYGIENE DURING FIRST QUARTER, 1910

DIABETIC FOODS.

Casoid Biscuit, No. 2.

The Cutler Co., No. Wilbraham, Mass. Thos. Leeming & Co., New York City. Thos. Leeming & Co., New York City. Casoid Biscuit, No. 3. Thos. Leeming & Co., New York City. Cresco Flour. Farwell & Rhines Co., Watertown, N. Y. .... Special Dietetic Food Flour. Farwell & Rhines Co., Water

The following results obtained on so-called diabetic foods are republished in response to numerous inquiries concerning the same:

BRAND AND MANUFACTURER.

TOTAL CARBOHYDRATES.

Akoll Biscuit. Huntley & Palmer, London. S. S. Pierce Co.

Boston
Atlantic Gluten Meal.
Casoid Biscuit, No. 1.

3.47% 18.38%

3.67%

0.00%

4.63%

79.12%

town, N. Y. ....

62.04%

Gluten Flour. Farwell & Rhines Co., Watertown, N. Y.
Roasted Cocoa Shells

40.70%

11.62%

Ice cream manufacturers and dealers are again reminded of the following which is the state standard:

1. Ice cream is a frozen product made from cream and sugar, with or without pure gelatine and a natural flavoring, and contains not less than fourteen (14) per cent of milk fat.

2. Fruit ice cream is the frozen product made from cream, sugar, and sound, clean, mature fruits, with or without pure gelatine and contains not less than twelve (12) per cent of milk fat.

3. Nut ice cream is a frozen product made from cream, sugar, and sound, non-rancid nuts, with or without pure gelatine and contains not less than twelve (12) per cent of milk fat.

The Eleventh Annual School of Instruction for Health Officers will be held in the Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, Vt., August 1 to 4 inclusive, 1910.

Every health officer and as many members of local boards of health as possible should make their plans to be present.

Citizens are invited and will find the proceedings of interest.

FOR THE DOCTORS-AS OTHERS SEE THEM.

The following is one of several letters from town clerks. Apparently there are reasons why they do not report promptly and accurately. Does this apply to you, doctor? If so report promptly, writing with unfading black ink, as your certificate remains in your town clerk's office as a permanent record.

H. D. HOLTON,

Secretary, State Board of Health.

Dear Sir:

Vt., November 29, 1909.

I find that the physicians are inclined to be careless and not fully answer the questions in the certificates of births and deaths; and also careless in their penmanship. It is often hard to make out the cause of death. I have written to all of our physicians cautioning them in these matters and hope to get complete returns.

I think if the town clerks had circular letters 'over your signature, directed to physicians, which the town clerk could mail to them, it would have a desired effect.

Respectfully,

Town Clerk.

THE DANGEROUS AND DEADLY HOUSE FLY.

The most abundant and widely distributed of pestilent insects is the common house fly (Musca domestica), constituting about 99 per cent of the various species of flies found about barns and houses. This hexapod "mixer" has about 10,000 very fine hairs on its feet, from which oil exudes constantly, enabling the fly to walk (by capillary attraction) in any position on a dry surface which is not too dusty. The house fly breeds preferably in horse manure, though at times in garbage or human feces, the full cycle of development from the egg being nine or ten days. Ritchie

DON'T ALLOW FLIES IN YOUR HOUSE.

DON'T PERMIT THEM NEAR YOUR FOOD -ESPECIALLY MILK.
DON'T BUY FOODSTUFFS WHERE FLIES ARE TOLERATED.
DON'T EAT WHERE FLIES HAVE ACCESS TO THE FOOD.

Flies are the most dangerous insects known to man.

Flies are the filthiest of all vermin. They are born in filth, live on filth and
carry filth around with them. They are maggots before they are flies.
Flies are known to be carriers of millions of death-dealing disease Terms.
They leave some of these germs wherever they alight.

Flies may infect the food you eat. They come to your kitchen or to your dining
table. fresh from the privy vault. from the garbage box, from the manure
pile. from the cuspidor from decaying animal or vegetable matter, or from
the contagious sick room with this sort of filth on their feet and in their
bodies, and they deposit it on your food, and YOU DO swallow filth from
privy vaults. etc., etc.. if you eat food that has come in contact with flies.
Flies may infect you with tuberculosis, typhoid fever, scarlet fever. diphtheria.
and other infectious diseases. They have the habit of feasting on tubercu
losis sputum and other discharges of those sick with these diseases, and
then go direct to your food. to your drink, to the lips of your sleeping child.
or perhaps to a small open wound on your hands or face. When germs are
deposited in milk they multiply very fast. therefore milk should never be
exposed to flies.

What To Do To Get Rid of Flies.

Screen your windows and doors. Do N early before fly time and keep screens
up until snow falls.

Screen all food. especially milk Do not eat food that has been in contact with flies.
Screen the baby's bed and keep flies away from the baby s bottle. the baby's
food and the baby's "comforter”

Keep flies away from the sick especially those ill with typhoid fever scarlet
fever diphtheria and tuberculosis. Screen the patient's bed. Kill every fly
that enters the sick room. Immediately disinfect and dispose of all discharges.
Catch the flies as fast as they appear Use hquid poisons sticky fly papers
and traps

Place either of these fly poisons in shallow dishes throughout the house
(a) Two teaspoonfuls of formaldehyde to a pint of water. or
(b) One dram of bichromate of potash dissolved in two ounces of water
sweetened with plenty of sugar.

To quickly clear rooms of flies. burn pyrethrum powder or blow powdered black
flag into the air of the room with a powder blower. This causes flies to fall
to the floor in stunned condition. They must then be gathered up and destroyed.

Eliminate the Breeding Places of Flies.

Sprinkle chloride of lime or kerosene over contents of privy vaults and garbage
boxes. Keep garbage receptacles tightly covered, clean the cans every day.
the boxes every week. Keep the ground around garbage boxes clean.
Sprinkle chloride of lime over manure piles, old paper. old straw and other
refuse of like nature. Keep manure in screened pit or Vault if possible.
Manure should be removed at least every week.

Pour kerosene into the drains. Keep sewerage system in good order, repair all
leaks immediately.

Clean cuspidors every day. Keep 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid in them
all the time. Get rid of sawdust boxes used as cuspitors — destroy them --
they're insanitary.

Don't allow dirt to accumulate in corners, behind doors, back of radiators.
under stoves, etc.

Allow no decaying matter of any sort to accumulate on or near your premises.
FLIES IN THE HOME INDICATE A CARELESS HOUSEKEEPER.
REMEMBER: NO DIRT-NO FLIES

CACAM

TYPHOID