Disinfection. In the case of smallpox and plague, all bedding and every article of clothing in an infected house was removed as expeditiously as possible, no time being taken to check the goods sent to the wash-houses, as in the case of the ordinary infectious troubles. During the year 536,146 articles of clothing and bedding were washed, in addition to which 26,271 beds, pillows and bundles of infected clothing had to be treated by steam and hot air in the disinfectors. Vaccination. Whereas during 1899 the number re-vaccinated amounted to 420, this year there have been no less than 7,805. This was doubtless due to the prevalence of smallpox in the city during 1900, and, much as it appears, it was completely dwarfed by the amount of work which was afterwards performed during the month of March, 1901, when a rapidly organized staff of 484 (including the Nuisance Inspectors and the Epidemic Inspectors on the staff) were employed at this work in the city. From March till toward the end of April, Dr. Carmichael reports that about 38,385 re-vaccinations were done in the districts, of which 2,667 were done by the sanitary officers in infected tenements. LOCOMOTIVE ACCIDENTS OF A MONTH IN PARIS. Every vehicle nowadays, says the New York "Herald," has to run a severe gantlet before it can establish its claim to general recognition and everyday usefulness. The danger signal is always put up to bar its advance. Those who venture to give trial to recent inventions in locomotion seem to have no other light ahead of them but the red lamp. Besides anathemas of all sorts hurled at the newcomer by those who have hitherto held the field, innumerable perils and risks are conjured up in the interests of the public as likely to be incurred if a rival of the older means of transit should be allowed to gain free way. It is now the turn of the automobile to pass through the experience of the steam locomotive and the bicycle. When the horse came into general use as an aid to man's progression, doubtless there was an outcry from the conservative section of mankind that the death rate would be terribly increased. Legs, it was probably feared, might become a thing of the past, so far as concerned those who could ride or drive horses, and in any case the horse, with his propensity to shy, buck and kick, was a dangerous thing, to be avoided! That was in the early days of civilization. When the steam engine, less than a hundred years ago, became a rival of the horse, all these fears were loudly expressed. The railway engine came to stay, the horse remained. Both joined forces to resist the interloping tendencies of the velocipede and bicycle. Loud were the complaints against their capacity for causing accidents. The outcry had hardly died away, three or four years ago, when the wheel reached the acme of favor as a popular means of locomotion. Another object now receives the same stream of criticism. The automobile is the "dangerous animal" of the day. To show that the fears so loudly expressed as to the increase of danger through the introduction of the motor vehicles have little foundation in fact, a French paper, the "Vélo," is keeping a regular monthly record of accidents in France. From the figures given, it appears that neither the railway, the automobile nor the bicycle competes with the horse in the number of accidents, fatal and otherwise. In the month of March, for instance, these are the figures given in comparison for the four classes: Particulars are given in the "Vélo" of the fatal accidents in each. The "shying," or swerving, of the horse in the great majority of cases is the cause of the accident. As might be expected, the fatal accidents due to the automobile, as to the bicycle, are generally those suffered by very young children and aged or infirm persons. THE SONG OF LIFE. One must sing of the sunshine; One must sing of the future; With hopes and fearings rife; One must sing of the misty past- Yet they will meet in a chord full sweet- One must sing of the mountains; Love and hate and compassion, Past and future and war and peace- And all will grow, as they ebb and flow, To life's unceasing song. -Josh Wink, in "Baltimore American." BOOK REVIEWS. A TREATISE ON THE ACUTE, INFECTIOUS EXANTHEMATA. Including Variola, Rubeola, Scarlatina, Rubella, Varicella and Vaccinia, with especial reference to Diagnosis and Treatment. By WILLIAM THOMAS CORLETT, M. D., L. R. C. P., London., Professor of Dermatology and Syphilology in Western Reserve University; Physician for Diseases of the Skin to Lakeside Hospital; Consulting Dermatologist to Charity Hospital, St. Alexis Hospital and the City Hospital, Cleveland; Member of the American Dermatological Association and the Dermatological Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Illustrated by 12 colored plates, 28 half-tone plates from life, and 2 engravings. Pages viii-392. Size, 6 1-4 by 91-4 inches. Sold only by subscription. Price, extra cloth, $4 net, delivered. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, publishers, 1914-16 Cherry street. "A keen recollection of the difficulties, not to mention the discomfiture, in encountering the acute exanthemata," which the author of this book tells us he encountered when he was a young practitioner, has been turned to excellent account by the production of this eminently practical work. It comprehends a lucid sketch of the early history of the exanthemata; diagnosis of them, admirably illustrated by plates of remarkable excellence, and practical deductions from extensive clinical experience, embracing practical knowledge of the diseases of the skin, which no medical student or medical practitioner can afford to do without, and which no book, to our knowledge, more lucidly inculcates. LIBERTINISM AND MARRIAGE. BY DR. LOUIS JULLIEN (Paris), surgeon of Saint-Lazare Prison, laureate of the Institute of the Academy of Medicine and of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Translated by R. B. Douglas. Size of page, 5 1-2 by 7 1-2 inches. Pages, v-169. Extra cloth, $1 net, delivered. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, publishers, 1914-16 Cherry street. A needful book, admirably supplied, most of all, by and to women, on a subject so generally tabooed by them as to involve their greater suffering, proportionately with their ignorance of the wiles of the libertine and of the dangers and diseases he propagates -the more, there is reason to believe, after he has become a benedict than before. That women are the greater sufferers is because they so commonly ignore available knowledge. It is not often that books written by and for physicians, as this one has been, are particularly commendable to women. But it is exceptional. It comprehends knowledge of the utmost importance to women contemplating marriage, and is sufficiently devoid of technicalities to be easily understood. By A SLAVEHOLDER'S DAUGHTER. BY BELLE KEARNEY. Cloth; 12mo. Illustrated, $1.00. New York: Abbey Press. A lucid sketch of the conditions and primary results of the Civil War, with a special reference to Southern women. It is illustrated by an example of the innate nobility of character proverbial of Southern women, so inspired by moral courage and grit as to subdue fear and defy defeat of the women's war, into which she has enlisted, for the redemption of wrecked manhood and the promotion of social development. It begins with a chapter on the "Old South," as a fitting introduction to the "Changed Conditions" that follow, and the "Readjustment," in which the authoress becomes an active participant. Every one of the chapters that follow is a practical lesson in virtuous enterprise, commended to all thoughtful readers. The other chapters are: "Young Ladies' Academy," "Storms of the Soul," "A Negro Sermon," "A Higher Life," "The Public School Ma'am," Educational Matters,""The Southern Problem," "Evolution of Southern Women," "The Transformation," "Miss Frances E. Willard," "The New Career." "My First Speech," "Away Down South in Dixie," "How de Cap'n Come Thu," "A Southern Pilgrimage," "Upon the Heights," "Across the Sea," "On the Continent," "The Sorrow," "The Far West and Alaska," "The LatterDay Saints," "In Colorado," "The Old Plantation Home," "The Last Farewell," "The Heavenly Birthday." CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE. The REVIEW OF REVIEWS for September is an unusual number. even for that magazine, of which the public has come to expect great things. Merely to list the contents of this issue is to enumerate the topics that now, at the approach of September, 1901, have "preferred position" in the daily news. The great steel strike, the career of Admiral Schley, the contributions of Dr. Koch to the |