How did the State Hygienic Laboratory go from testing typhoid fever to extracting the DNA fingerprints of illnesses? Kathy Fait, librarian and historian, will connect the dots on Feb. 28 in part one of "The History of the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa." The hour-long presentation begins at 5:30 p.m. in room 401 of the University of Iowa Hardin Library for the Health Sciences.

For more information, contact Donna Hirst (donna-hirst@uiowa.edu) at Hardin Library. The phone number is 319-335-9154.

The Hygienic Laboratory's water lab in 1916

Between September 1904 and October 1905 the Laboratory tested 3,850 samples and found the following number of positives: 524 tuberculosis, 496 diphtheria, 127 typhoid and 46 miscellaneous, including three malaria, two pneumonia and one rabies.