Some specific laws governing the following points would be of great advantage during the progress of an epidemic: (a) A law providing for the commandeering by boards of health of vaccines, sera or other substances for which a sudden unusual demand may occur, and for the distribution of such substances by the authorities to the public at the prices ordinarily asked. (b) A law permitting the exclusion from the daily papers by boards of health of advertisements containing obviously false and fraudulent statements relative to the epidemic. (c) A law permitting the health authorities to go into public eating places and demand proper sterilization of dishes and eating utensils with the alternative of closing the establishment. (d) A set of laws making the penalties sufficient to prevent violations of the regulations. _Education of the Public_ From the beginning to the end of an epidemic the health authorities, aided by the medical profession, should take the public wholly into their confidence. At the first news of the approach of the disease a general bulletin should be issued giving all of the main facts that are available. This was done in a way by the American Public Health Service, but the bulletin reached only a small fraction of the people, and although parts of it appeared later in the daily papers, it was pretty generally missed. The papers should be used freely and the space paid for when necessary, so that the news of the epidemic is featured emphatically. The establishment of a question and answer department or a bureau of information would take care of a great deal in the way of denying misinformation. The public should be encouraged to report helpful facts of all kinds, but with the understanding that no rumors would be published without investigation and confirmation. In this way it would be possible to prevent articles advising harmful and useless remedies from reaching the press, and aid in suppressing some of the “Sure Cures,” so many of which appeared to abuse the confidence of the unwary during the 1918 epidemic. Several such cures have been most interestingly discussed in a recent bulletin of the United States Public Health Service. The bulletin divides the “Sure Cures” into three different classes, as follows: “First comes the individual who has a specific remedy, the formula of which he will sell for a price * * *; next comes the person with a pseudo-scientific treatment, e. g., isotonic sea water, ‘orzono therapy,’ ‘harmonic vibrations.’ * * * Still another type, who gives freely of his advice that humanity may be spared from pestilence.” Among the latter are found advice for placing sulphur in the shoes, wearing of amulets, inhaling of alcohol, chloroform, etc., as well as numerous religious and mental science treatments, etc. A frank statement of facts and a discussion of the ridiculous side of many of these claims would undoubtedly benefit the entire public. The