Published weekly by the Department of Health, City of New York, 505 Pearl St., New York, N. Y. Entered as Second-Class matter October 16, 1917, at the Postoffice at New York, N. Y. Under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription, 10 cents per annum.

ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D., Commissioner of Health.

NEW SERIES, Vol. XII.

JANUARY 13, 1923.

No. 2

PROGRAM OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH EXPOSITION.

Mr. Charles L. Kohler, General Manager. Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Chairman. The Second Public Health Exposition is to be held in the Grand Central Palace, Lexington Avenue and 46th Street, the entire week of January 22-27. The doors will be open from 2 to 10 P. M. Admission: Adults, 40 cents; children (under 16), 20 cents.

Monday, January 22-Opening of Exhibition by Commissioner Copeland, and President Murray Hulbert, of the Board of Aldermen.

Queens Borough Day.

Tuesday, January 23-Work of the Bureau of Food and Drugs.

Thursday, January 25-Work of the Bureau of Public Health Education.

Address by Professor Chandler, of the Rotary Club..

Richmond Borough Day

Friday, January 26-Address by Governor Smith.

Manhattan Borough Day.

Saturday, January 27 Greater City Day. Address by Mayor Hylan.

Award of Prizes in Better Babies Contest, Fat Women Contest, Nutrition Improvement Contest, Best Teeth Contest, Physical Development of High School Boys Contest, Perfect Foot Contest, etc.

The musical program will be provided by the Exposition Orchestra, the Fire Department Band, the Police Department Band, and the Street Cleaning Depart

ment Band.

Special Exhibits of the Work of the Department of Health.

BUREAU OF LABORATORIES.

The Bureau of Laboratories will exhibit the actual operations of its different divisions, and will show how the work of each division is related to and dependent upon the work of the other divisions, and also the relation of these divisions to other Bureaus of the Department. Thus:

tIf the deaths under one month, numbering 71 from all causes, be deducted from the total deaths under one year, the resulting rate will be 34. per 1,000 births (weekly average).

*Includes deaths from Erysipelas 2, Syphilis 14, Diabetes 27, Alcoholism 9, Locomotor Ataxia

4, Paresis 5, Arterio-sclerosis 80, all other congenital causes 5.

Published weekly by the Department of Health, City of New York, 505 Pearl St., New York, N. Y. Entered as Second-Class matter October 16, 1917, at the Postoffice at New York, N. Y. Under Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription, 10 cents per annum.

ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D.. Commissioner of Health.

NEW SERIES, Vol. XII.

JANUARY 13, 1923.

No. 2

PROGRAM OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH EXPOSITION.

Mr. Charles L. Kohler, General Manager. Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Chairman. The Second Public Health Exposition is to be held in the Grand Central Palace, Lexington Avenue and 46th Street, the entire week of January 22-27. The doors will be open from 2 to 10 P. M. Admission: Adults, 40 cents; children (under 16), 20 cents.

Monday, January 22-Opening of Exhibition by Commissioner Copeland, and President Murray Hulbert, of the Board of Aldermen.

Queens Borough Day.

Tuesday, January 23-Work of the Bureau of Food and Drugs.

Bronx Borough Day.

Wednesday, January 24-Address by Mayor Hylan.

Brooklyn Borough Day.

Thursday, January 25-Work of the Bureau of Public Health Education.

Address by Professor Chandler, of the Rotary Club..

Richmond Borough Day

Friday, January 26-Address by Governor Smith.

Manhattan Borough Day.

Saturday, January 27-Greater City Day. Address by Mayor Hylan.

Award of Prizes in Better Babies Contest, Fat Women Contest, Nutrition
Improvement Contest, Best Teeth Contest, Physical Development of High
School Boys Contest, Perfect Foot Contest, etc.

The musical program will be provided by the Exposition Orchestra, the Fire Department Band, the Police Department Band, and the Street Cleaning Department Band.

Special Exhibits of the Work of the Department of Health.

BUREAU OF LABORATORIES.

The Bureau of Laboratories will exhibit the actual operations of its different divisions, and will show how the work of each division is related to and dependent upon the work of the other divisions, and also the relation of these divisions to other Bureaus of the Department. Thus:

The Division of Diagnosis will show the different steps of the collection of cultures for the bacteriological diagnosis of diphtheria, as well as the making of the diagnosis, and will demonstrate the relationship of this work to the Divisions of Production and Applied Therapy, and to that of the Bureaus of Preventable Diseases, Sanitation, and Records. In showing this relationship the Schick Test and Toxin-Antitoxin Injections for immunization against diphtheria will be demonstrated. In the same way, the various steps in the diagnosis of tuberculosis, typhoid, malaria, typhus, plague, and other diseases caused by micro-organisms, and the relation of this work to the work of the rest of the Department will be shown. There will be a Serological Laboratory at work in diagnosing syphilis, gonorrhoea, tuberculosis, and other diseases in connection with which serologic tests are useful; and the relationship of this work to that of the rest of the Department will be made clear.

The Division of Special Investigation will show what researches are being conducted in regard to common colds, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough, plague, and other diseases. Also the disinfection of material infected with the anthrax bacillus. Special work will be shown in regard to the Standardization of Laboratory Methods.

The Division of Microbal Sanitary Examination will have a milk laboratory at work, and will also show the routine bacterial examination of water and of shell-fish. Tests of various foods for the different types of food-poisoning organisms will also be made. The relationship of the work of this division to that of the Bureau of Food and Drugs and of the Sanitary Division will be indicated.

The Division of Production will show how antitoxin is concentrated and refined and how other sera are produced. This demonstration will include all of the operations involved up to the final boxing. This exhibit will show how bacterial and virus vaccines are made, and also other products, such as thromboplastin.

The Division of Applied Therapy will show, by lectures and lantern slides, the work it is carrying on in spinal puncture and intra-spinal injections of curative serums, in cases of meningitis and tetanus.

BUREAU OF PREVENTABLE DISEASES.

This Bureau will show in conjunction with the Bureau of Laboratories, its work for the control of various communicable diseases, such as smallpox, diphtheria, tuberculosis, rabies, and syphilis.

It will have a model clinic showing methods in the diagnosis of tuberculosis, and in making periodical examinations for life conservation purposes. It will also operate a shooting gallery, in which the targets will be representations of various infectious diseases.

BUREAU OF CHILD HYGIENE.

One of the star attractions will be the Perfect Baby Contest, for infants under two years of age, conducted in co-operation with the "New York American." Cash awards of $750, as well as gold and silver medals, are to be distributed to the most perfect babies, registered at the seventy Baby Health Stations of the Department in the various Boroughs, the largest award, $250, going to the most perfect baby found among all.

Another feature will be a Dental Clinic, where the teeth of all contestants for the dental prize, given by the Department for the most perfect set of natural

teeth, will be examined.

Dental hygienists will be in constant attendance to clean the teeth of children applying, to instruct them in the use of the toothbrush, and to point out to parents the dental defects found. This Clinic will be arranged, in so far as practical, exactly as clinics are arranged in modern public schools in this City. Classes of children will be presented by school nurses, showing methods of brushing the teeth.

Another contest of interest will be that among boys for the best physically developed pupil in the high schools of New York City. The Evening World will give prizes to the best developed boys found in each of the Boroughs.

Perhaps the most interesting, because most practical and useful, exhibit will be that showing the work done in a malnutrition class of twenty-five children during the month. Twenty-five children, nearly all members of an Open Air Class in a public school, have been selected in order to demonstrate what can be done under ordinary home conditions, when properly supervised. A nurse has been placed in charge of this group, who is instructing the children, as well as the parents, in the amount of sleep they should have, what they should eat, how they should exercise. A dietary has been arranged for the children for each day of the week. These children have entered into the contest with great zeal. Prizes donated by the Health Department will be distributed to the children showing the largest per cent of gain.

Another interesting feature will be a fully equipped Baby Health Station. Run in connection therewith will be a Prenatal Clinic.

At the Baby Health Station, babies will be weighed and measured, and advice given by doctors and nurses, who will be in constant attendance, to mothers and others interested. At the prenatal clinic advice will be given to prospective mothers and fathers on how to bring perfect babies into the world.

There will be an exhibit of models of foods suitable for children, which will be borrowed from the Museum of Natural History, together with the model, owned by the Department, showing a model day in the life of a school child.

There will also be shown a twelve-foot thermometer with vari-colored lights, indicating the reduction in infant mortality since the organization of the Bureau of Child Hygiene.

Still another feature will be a raft made of life preservers, each variously marked "Cleanliness", "Sleep", "Good Health Habits", "Avoidance of Crowds", which are principles of real life that prove so helpful in keeping children healthy. Life insurance policies will be distributed to parents in the form of those issued by life insurance companies, which pledge the child to observe certain rules of health.

BUREAU OF FOOD AND DRUGS.

This Bureau will give:

Demonstration of the value of the attention to statements on labels of food

stuffs.

The comparative nutritional value of various foods. Especially, the value of milk.

The use of artificial coloring in foods (pies and cake); guarding the purity of shellfish.

Standardization of beverages.

Candling of eggs, and rules regulating their sale.

Regulation of patent medicines.

Quantity of foodstuffs arriving daily in the City.