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54 where there are swarms of mosquitoes. Their bites may make you very ill indeed.

Perhaps you have a wonderful museum of natural history near your school that you can visit soon and look for the exhibits there that tell you about public health. This will help you to organize the work of your Junior health board. Look for the relief map that shows the drainage system of your town. You may be able to copy this at home in clay, or sand, which will be a new kind of rainy day occupation. Look, too, for the giant size models of the mosquito and fly in the museum. These will help you and the others to understand how dangerous they are. And ask your teacher and the librarian in the children’s room to suggest a reading list about keeping well.

Every school and every Board of Health has rules about those children who have such contagious diseases as measles, whooping cough, or scarlet fever. It would be a good plan to find out just what these are and make copies of them to give your Junior Board. Be sure to brush your teeth three times a day, and keep your hands and face just as clean as you can. These seem like very small things to do for Uncle Sam, but they will please him just as much as something greater, and they will help him, too.