cts and objects
to certain portions of the camp. Instinct places outhouses on our farms
and then gradually removes them farther and farther from dwellings. In
many school yards, more particularly in country districts and small
towns, outhouses are a crying offense against animal instinct. In
visiting slum districts in Irish and Scotch cities, and in London,
Paris, Berlin, and New York, I never found conditions so offensive to
crude animal instinct as those I knew when a boy in Minnesota school
yards, or those I have since seen in a Boy Republic. But the evil is
not corrected because it is not made anybody's business to execute
instinct's mandates. In the Boy Republic the leaders were waiting for
the children themselves to revolt, as does primitive man.

TABLE I

TYPHOID A RURAL DISEASE[1]

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| Average | Average
| Per Cent | Typhoid Fever
| of Rural | Death Rate
| Population | per 100,000
------------------------------------------+------------+--------------
Five states in which the urban | |
population was more than 60% of the total | 30 | 25
| |
Six states in which the urban population | |
was between 40% and 60% | 49 | 42
| |
Seven states in which the urban | |
population was between 30% and 40% | 67 | 38
| |
Eight states in which the urban | |
population was between 20% and 30% | 75 | 46
| |
Twelve states in which the urban | |
population was between 10% and 20% | 87 | 62
| |
Twelve states in which the urban | |
population was between 0 and 10% | 95 | 67
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Among large numbers of persons, in city as well as country, washing the
body is still a matter of instinct, a bath not being taken until the
body is offens