An inspection of the table shows that sixty-nine samples, or 22.2 per cent. of the samples, contained no potassium iodide, which means that the druggists making them are still using the Pharmacopoeia of 1890, although the revision of 1900 has been in effect about two years. No explanation except gross carelessness can be made to account for the very wide divergence of a large number of the samples from the required amounts of iodine and potassium iodide. Experiments made in this laboratory show that a tincture made of good materials and with ordinary care such as should reasonably be expected of the average drug clerk, should not deviate more than 0.25 gm. per 100 cc. in either direction with respect to potassium iodide, and the amount of iodine should not be more than 0.1 gram per 100 ccm. greater than the amount required by the Pharmacopoeia nor more than 0.4 gram per 100 ccm. less. That is, a finished tincture containing from 4.75 to 5.25 gm. of potassium iodide per 100 ccm. and from 6.50 to 7.00 gm. of iodine may be regarded as a satisfactory approximation to the theoretical tincture. Calculating the results of the analyses made during the year on this basis, it has been found that sixty-two samples, or 19.9 per cent. of the total number, come within these requirements. If the permissible deviation from the standard be doubled in each case, an allowance which is certainly too great, the number falling within the limits is 107, or 34.4 per cent. of the total number.

Report of State Sanitary Examiners.

BY A. C. HUNT, M.D.

To the Board of Health of the State of New Jersey:

GENTLEMEN-The annual report of the State board of health for 1906 contains a statement as to the examinations of applicants for licenses as health officers and inspectors, which were held prior to December 5th, 1906. On December 5th, 1906, thirty-three applicants were examined and of this number the committee recommended that ten licenses be issued to health officers, eight to inspectors of the first class and three to plumbing inspectors. A special examination of applicants for license as meat inspectors was held December 17th, 1906. Two applicants were examined and the issue of one license was recommended. At the examination held June 5th, 1907, twenty-six applicants were examined. The committee recommended that licenses be issued to one health officer, six inspectors of the first class, one inspector of the third class and two plumbing inspectors.

The following table shows the total number of persons examined to November 1st, 1907, and the total number of licenses issued:

Excerpts from the Annual Reports of

Local Boards of Health

FOR THE YEAR ENDING OCTOBER 31, 1907.

Asbury Park. The health officer, Mr. B. H. Obert, writes as follows:

The personnel of the board was changed January 1st, 1907, the term of Mr. Randolph Ross having expired, and, he refusing a reappointment, Mr. William C. Weeden was appointed as his successor.

The following preamble and resolutions were adopted by the board showing their esteem for his long and faithful service:

WHEREAS, The term of service of Mr. Randolph Ross, as a member of the board of health of Asbury Park, having expired January 1st, 1907, he having been identified with the board since January 4th, 1882, having served as secretary, registrar of vital statistics, treasurer and member, the board wishes to place on record an expression of the high esteem in which Mr. Ross has been held by this board during his long term of service; therefore, be it.

Resolved, That we hereby testify to Mr. Ross' unwavering integrity, his devotion to the sanitary advancement of the city, and his wise official application of the principles of municipal hygiene in the conduct of the public affairs of the .city.

Resolved, That we regret the loss to the city of Asbury. Park of the services of Mr. Ross, as a member of the board of health, and we sincerely desire his future happiness and prosperity.

The total number of deaths in Asbury Park for year ending October 1st, 1907, was 141, 114 among the resident and twenty-seven among the non-resident population. The resident population, according to the police census of 1907, was 9,604, showing a death-rate among the resident population of 11.87 per 1,000. In the annexed district (annexed to Asbury Park May 15th, 1906), which district is in a primitive sanitary state, containing about 450 acres and a population of approximately 5,000, there were eighty-one deaths. In the old district of Asbury Park but thirty-three deaths occurred among the resident population, which number is about normal for several years past.

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TABLE SHOWING THE NUMBER OF DEATHS OCCURRING IN ASBURY PARK AMONG THE RESIDENT AND NON-RESIDENT POPULATION EACH YEAR, 1881 EXCEPTED, FOR THE PAST TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS.

*Does not include district newly annexed.

Resident population estimated except for years 1880, 1895, 1900, 1905 and 1907.