which condone his activities. It brings pressure to bear through publicity, the placing of a military ban upon a recalcitrant community or the direct application of Federal law. Coercive means are employed only as a last resort, efforts first being made to obtain voluntary action by municipal officials, before whom the evidence, carefully collected from every available source of information is laid. In general a commendable spirit of co-operation has been displayed by local officials.

In stimulating the enforcement of law by local officials, the division's representatives have found it necessary to bring about a spirit of co-operation between sheriff and police, police and courts, civil and military police, etc. Difficulties in securing evidence have been brought about by the inadequacy of local police forces and of sheriffs' staffs of deputies, and by the lack of funds and of trained men for military police work. Recently the commissions have put funds at the disposal of camp commandants for use of the military police and more attention has been . paid by the military authorities to the selection of men for service in the military police.

Early in the present year the regulations adopted in accordance with Sections 12 and 13 of the Selective Service Act were strengthened by revisions which made it a crime to take or offer to take a person to, or offer to receive a person into, a place for immoral purposes within one of the fivemile zones, or to enter or reside in a house of prostitution, or to give or serve, as well as to sell, liquor to soldiers and sailors. The application of the term "military camp" was broadened. The con

viction of bootleggers has been made easier by the revised regulations, since it is now unnecessary to prove a sale. It has been found advisable, however, to conduct prosecutions in local courts whereever possible, in view of the fact that many Federal courts do not sit continuously in any one place. Deficiencies in this method of

procedure are the frequent failures of police judges to convict, or to impose no other penalty than a fine, which operates merely as a license to the prostitute or bootlegger, and the inadequacy of many local and state laws. Inadequacy

of facilities for the detention of prostitutes has also interfered with efficient law enforcement.

Legislation to provide state reformatory facilities has been supported by the commissions in states whose legislatures have been in session this year, and state and local funds for reformatories have been supported by Federal grants. Other legislation which has been supported relates to the injunction and abatement of houses of prostitution by civil process, to the modernizing of codes with respect to the crime of prostitution, to the requirement of licenses for hotels and rooming houses and to the prevention, care and treatment of venereal diseases. State boards of health have been aided in drafting. regulations making venereal diseases reportable and persons infected therewith subject to quarantine. Legislation restricting the liquor traffic has been supported, the War and Navy Departments taking the position that while they cannot interfere in any local election, they can state unequivocally their gratification at the elimination of the liquor traffic in communities near which soldiers or sailors are stationed.

fluenza, 207 to broncho pneumonia and 145 to lobar pneumonia. In addition to these deaths, most of which were doubtless due to the epidemic, there were 231 deaths from diarrhea and enteritis, the summer scourge of babyhood. Diphtheria in October caused 25 deaths, whooping cough 24, measles 4, scarlet fever 6, tuberculosis 7, typhoid fever 3, and syphilis 7.

Compared with the seven months' average of deaths in 1916, the first seven months of the Children's Year resulted not in any saving, but in a net loss of 653 babies. The loss for the single month of October was 868- that is, 868 more children under five . died in October than in the average month of 1916. (The year's total and therefore the monthly average for 1917 were practically the same as for 1916, it will be noted.) The first six months of the Children's Year (April to September, inclusive) produced a saving of 215 babies; the quota to have been saved during the same period was 2,255, so even before the beginning of the influenza outbreak, Ohio, while achieving some reductions in infant mortality, yet was falling far short of her assigned quota. Much of this shortage, study of the statistics shows, is to be attributed to heavy losses. in a comparatively few counties. Champaign County, for example, which had 45 deaths under five years of age in the entire year of 1917 and 52 in 1916, had in the half-year under consideration a

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total of 66, of which 43 occurred in the single month of August. Other serious losses were registered in Allen, Clark, Clinton, Columbiana, Coshocton, Franklin, Mahoning, Scioto and Trumbull counties.

On the other hand, twelve counties had reductions in death totals equal to the quotas assigned them. These twelve were: Brown, Delaware, Fulton, Hancock, Hardin, Knox, Licking, Madison, Morgan, Noble, Pike and Preble. Lucas, which came nearest among the larger counties to saving its quota, achieved a reduction of 116 under the 1916 average; the county quota was 133. Even with the October total included, Lucas County still has a seven months' saving of 54 to its credit.

Among the other larger counties, Cuyahoga during the first six months of the Children's Year saved 116 of its quota of 435 babies, Hamilton eight of a quota of 178, Montgomery 51 of a quota

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