Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Co., Philadelphia, Pa.-License No. 82:

Arsphenamine (arsenobenzol billon); neoarsphenamine (novarsenobenzol billon); sulpharsphenamine, a compound of glucose with arsphenamine base (amino arseno phenol or eparseno). Terrell Laboratories, 311 State Bank Building, Fort Worth, Tex.-License No. 84:

Rabies vaccine (killed virus).

Jensen-Salsbury Laboratories, Kansas City, Mo.-License No. 85:

Botulinus antitoxin: rabies vaccine (killed virus).

Cook Laboratories, 536 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Ill.-License No. 86:

Bacterial vaccines made from acne bacillus, colon bacillus, Friedlander bacillus, genococcus, influenza bacillus, micrococcus catarrhalis, paratyphoid bacillus A, paratyphoid bacillus B, pertussis bacillus, pneumococcus, staphylococcus albus, staphylococcus aureus, streptococcus and typhoid bacillus. Kober Chemical Co., Hastings-on-Hudson, N. Y.-License No. 88:

Arsphenamine.

W. F. Straub Laboratories, 5514-5520 Norwood Park Avenue, Chicago, Ill.-License No. 89:
Bacterial vaccines made from colon bacillus and staphylococcus aureus.

FOREIGN ESTABLISHMENTS.

Institut Pasteur de Paris, Paris, France.-License No. 11. Selling agents for the United States: Pasteur Laboratories of America, 366 West Eleventh Street, New York City:

Diphtheria antitoxin; tetanus antitoxin; antianthrax serum: antidysenteric serum; antiplague serum; antistreptococcic serum; bacterial vaccines made from cholera vibrio, plague bacillus, staphylococcus albus, and staphylococcus aureus.

Farbwerke Hoechst, vorm. Meister Lucius und Brüning, Hoechst am Main, Germany.License No. 24 Selling agents for the United States: H. A. Metz Laboratories, 122 Hudson St., New York City: Diphtheria antitoxin; tetanus antitoxin; antistreptococcic serum; normal horse serum; tuberculin okt tuberculin T. R.; tuberculin B. E.; tuberculin B. F.; bacterial vaccines made from cholera vibric, gonococcus, staphylococcus albus, staphylococcus aureus, and staphylococcus citreus; tyrbad bacillus; sensitized bacterial vaccine made from typhoid bacillus; arsphenamine; necarsphenamine, sodium arsphenamine; silver arsphenamine; neasilverarsphenamine.

Connaught Antitoxin Laboratory, University of Toronto, Canada.-License No. 73:

Diphtheria antitoxin; tetanus antitoxin.

Les Etablissements Poulenc Frères, 92 Rue Vieille-du-Temple, Paris, III, France.-License No. 74. Seling agents for the United States: Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten Co., Philadelphia, Pa.:

Bacterial vaccine made from gonococcus, micrococcus tetragenus, pertussis bacillus, staphylococc albus, staphylococcus aureus, and synococcus; arsphenamine; neoarsphenamine.

Laboratoires Naline, Villaneuve-la-Garenne, Seine, France.-License No. 75. Selling agents for the United States: Geo. J. Wallau, 6 Cliff St., New York City:

Phospharsenamine (galyl).

Laboratoire de Biochimie Médicale, 92 Rue Michel-Ange, Paris, France.-License No. 83:

Sulpharsphenamine.

Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese, Milan, Italy.-License No. 87:

Antianthrax serum; bacterial vaccines made from pneumococcus, staphylococcus albus, staphylococcus aureus, staphylococcus citreus, and streptococcus; neoarsphenamine (Neoiacol).

CURRENT COURT DECISIONS PERTAINING TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

Laundries, regulation of.―The enforcement of an ordinance of the city of Chicago, regulating the establishment, licensing, operation, and sanitation of laundries, was sought to be enjoined. The lower court dismissed the bill and the decree was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Illinois. It was held that the ordinance was clearly a health regulation which the city had authority to pass, and those provisions of the ordinance which were attacked were held valid. (Moy et al v. City of Chicago et al., 140 N. E. 845.)

Sewers and sewage disposal.-The Supreme Court of California has decided that section 3 of the public health act, which requires a permit from the State board of health in connection with sewers and sewage disposal, applies only to the use of sewers after construc

tion and does not apply to their construction.

218 Pac. 393.)

(Ex parte Chutuk,

State board of health, membership of.-In a quo warranto proceeding brought in the name of the State, on the relation of the attorney general, to determine the membership of the State board of health, and also who was entitled to the office of secretary of the board, the Supreme Court of Kansas held as follows:

(1) Appointments to membership on the State board of health, which are not acted on or rejected by the senate, entitle the appointees to hold their offices to the end of their terms or until the appointments are considered and rejected by the senate.

(2) A mere recital in the commission issued to the appointee by the governor that the appointment had been confirmed does not establish the fact.

(3) The governor can not revoke appointments made during a recess of the legislature merely because such appointments are not sent to or acted upon by the senate at the next legislative session.

(4) In the absence of a statutory provision to that effect, the failure of an appointee to take and file his oath of office does not create a vacancy in the office.

(5) The action of a board member, already legally appointed, in qualifying under a subsequent appointment and attending and participating in an illegal meeting of the board, was not a resignation of his office and did not affect his title to the office which he already occupied under a previous legal appointment. (6) The secretary who was appointed at the meeting of the board held on June 5, 1923, was vested with a good title to his office. (State ex rel. Griffith, Atty. Gen., v. Matassarin et al., 217 Pac. 930.)

Garbage disposal ordinance upheld. An ordinance of the city of Enid, regulating the removal and disposal of garbage and directing the making of a contract with some person, firm, or corporation for such removal and disposal, has been held valid by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. The ordinance was attacked on the grounds that (1) it created a monopoly of the business of hauling and disposing of garbage, and (2) that it was discriminatory, illegal, and in excess of the police power of the city to prohibit a business which was not a nuisance per se. (Burns v. City of Enid et al., 217 Pac. 1038.)

DEATH RATES IN A GROUP OF INSURED PERSONS.

COMPARISON OF DEATH RATES FOR PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DEATH, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1923, AND OCTOBER AND YEAR, 1922.

The accompanying table is taken from the Statistical Bulletin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. for November, 1923. It presents the mortality experience of the industrial insurance department of the company for September and October, 1923, and October and year 1922. The rates for 1923 are based on a strength of over 14,000,000 persons.

The Bulletin says: "The October death rate of eight per thousand exceeds by a small margin last year's figure for the same month (7.9). The usual seasonal increase over September is in evidence this year and is due, for the most part, to higher October rates for cerebral hemorrhage, organic heart disease, pneumonia, diphtheria, and accidents. The health situation, as a whole, is a very satisfactory one. There is no general epidemic prevalence of any disease. Measles, which has been much in evidence during most of 1923, shows for the first time this year a lower death rate than for the corresponding month of 1922. The tuberculosis rate continues low and a further reduction this year in the mortality from this disease is now practically assured. Heart disease, on the other hand, continues to cause more deaths than for several years.

"Attention must again be called to the very unsatisfactory death rate for accidents in October. The mortality increased sharply over the September figure and stands 25 per cent higher than for October, 1922. There were 232 automobile fatalities, corresponding to a death rate of 19.4 per 100,000. This is not only the highest figure for any month in 1923, but is the maximum for any one month among Metropolitan Industrial policyholders. * * Automobile accidents in October caused three times as many deaths as typhoid fever and almost as many as diphtheria, whooping cough, scarlet fever, and measles combined. The leading cause of death, organic heart disease, was responsible for only six deaths to every one automobile fatality.

*

"The general, or population, death rate for the large cities of the United States in October was 11.3 per 1,000. This is identical with the rate for October, 1922, and shows only a slight increase, altogether seasonal, over the figure for September, 1923. There was more or less increased prevalence in October of diphtheria, influenza, measles, poliomyelitis, scarlet fever, and smallpox, while fewer cases of typhoid and whooping cough were reported. Comparison with October of last year shows more influenza, malaria, measles, poliomyelitis, and smallpox, but less diphtheria, scarlet fever, and whooping cough."

Death rates (annual basis) for principal causes per 100,000 lives exposed, September and October, 1923, and October and year 1922.

(From the

Summary of information received by telegraph from industrial insurance companies
for week ended December 15, 1923, and corresponding week of 1922.
Weekly Health Index, December 18, 1923, issued by the Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce.)

Policies in force...

Number of death claims...

Death claims per 1,000 policies in force, annual rate.

Week ended Dec. 15, 1923. 55,839,663

10,578
9.9

Corresponding week, 1922. 51,549,831

9,386

9.5

Deaths from all causes in certain large cities of the United States during the week ended December 15, 1923, infant mortality, annual death rate, and comparison with corresponding week of 1922. (From the Weekly Health Index, December 18, 1923, issued by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.)

2 Deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births-an annual rate based on deaths under 1 year for the week and estimated births for 1922. Cities left blank are not in the registration area for births. Deaths for week ended Friday, Dec. 14, 1923.

Deaths from all causes in certain large cities of the United States during the week ended December 15, 1923, infant mortality, annual death rate, and comparison with corresponding week of 1922. (From the Weekly Health Index, December 18, 1923, issued by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.)—Continued.