fectious diseases, methods of isolation and quarantine, use of vaccines and prophylactic serums, disinfection, infectious disease hospitals and rules for management, laboratory work, destruction and exclusion of insects.

Street paving, street

CLASS 792-(b) Municipal Sanitation. cleaning, garbage collecting, garbage disposal, sewers, sewer cleaning, hospitals, dispensaries, disinfecting stations, portable disinfecting apparatus, public drinking fountains, parks, public baths, public sanitaries, tenements.

CLASS 792-(c) Sanitary Engineering. Plans, specifications, elevations, photographs of methods of sewage disposal. Also plans, etc., of plants for the purification of water, as sand filtration, mechanical filtration, electrical purification. Plans of sewer systems, best materials for construction, etc. Descriptions and photographs of water sheds. Preservation of streams from pollution. Preventing smoke nuisances.

CLASS 792-(d) School Sanitation. Plans, elevations, specifications, photographs, illustrating sanitary schoolhouses. Medical inspection of school children, physical training, proper seats and desks, print of school books. Drinking fountains. Sanitaries.

CLASS 793—(a) Industrial Sanitation. Regulations governing the sanitary conduction of industries. Ventilation, warming and lighting of factories and work rooms. Fire escapes and other safeguards against accident and disease. Production of vaccines, prophylactic and curative serums. Car sanitation, boat sanitation, sanitary care of public vehicles.

CLASS 793-(b) Home Sanitation in Villages and Country. Plans, specifications and elevations of an ideal sanitary house or dwelling. Foundations, cellars, heating, ventilation, lighting, plumbing, disposal of sewage and slops, water supply, kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, clothing, exclusion of dust and insects. All to be illustrated by drawings, models, photographs.

CLASS 793-(c) Domestic and Public Hygiene Appliances. Street cleaning machinery, garbage carts, models of garbage crematories, sections and models of street paving, ash and garbage receptacles, ventilating grates and stoves, furnaces, cooling appliances, domestic water filters, refrigerators, domestic water-stills, domestic garbage burners, commodes, earth closets, insect screens, etc.

CLASS 794-Food and Drug Inspections. Pure food and drug laws, rules and regulations for enforcement. Explanation of methods of collection of food and drug samples. Analyses, reports,

prosecutions. Printed reports of results. Amount of money allowed for the work.

CLASS 795-Vital Statistics. Laws, rules and ordinances governing the collection of vital statistics. Methods for collecting, tabulating, classifying, analyzing, etc. Forms of blanks used, published results and graphic charts. Calculation of death, sickness, birth and marriage rates.

CLASS 796-Disposal of the Dead (Earth Burial). History. Arguments for and against, with illustrations. Burial of bodies dead of dangerous transmissible diseases. Best kind of soil. Modern embalming with consequent retardation of destruction. Sites for cemeteries. Cremation-Literature concerning cremation. Photographs, plans, elevations, specifications of crematories; also descriptions and illustrations of furnaces and all accessories.

J. N. HURTY, M. D. Superintendent Section of Hygiene.

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON TUBER

CULOSIS.

To be Held October 3, 4 and 5, 1904, Under the Auspices of the Universal Exposition, at St. Louis, 1904, and of the American Congress on Tuberculosis.

President, E. J. Barrick, M.D., Toronto, Ontario.

First Vice-President, F. E. Daniel, M.D., Austin, Tex. Second Vice-President, Ex-Chief Justice L. Bradford Prince, Santa Fe, N. M.

Third Vice-President, Dr. Charles K. Cole, Helena, Mont. Fourth Vice-President, Dr. Sofus F. Nelson, Pulman, Wash. Fifth Vice-President, Dr. A. M. Linn, Des Moines, Iowa. Secretary, Samuel Bell Thomas, 116 Nassau St., New York. Treasurer, Clark Bell, 39 Broadway, New York.

MY DEAR DR. BELL:

THE SANITARIAN.

In compliance with your request for my appreciation of THE SANITARIAN from my viewpoint as associate editor for more than twenty years, on the eve of your retirement and the merging of THE SANITARIAN with "The Popular Science Monthly," I will endeavor to do so as tersely as I may by excerpts from its pages, with which I heartily concur, but to which I would add, if I could command words of more exalted significance.

THE SANITARIAN from the outset, indeed from its announcement by prospectus in February, 1873, for the terseness of its stated purpose, "to so present the results of the various inquiries. which have been, and which may hereafter be made for the preservation of health and the expectations of human life, as to make them most advantageous to the public and to the medical profession; to awaken public attention to the extent of the field, and to the facts indicating how beneficently it may be cultivated, by showing the amount of ill-health and mortality from preventable causes of disease; by pointing out the nature of those causes and the way in which they operate; by showing that such causes are removable, and by exhibiting improved health, longevity and happiness as the fruits of their removal."

This announcement, as shown by the correspondence in the early numbers, attracted the attention of many distinguished members of the medical profession and other persons, who have here given thought to the possibilities of preventive medicine.

How well THE SANITARIAN has accomplished its purpose is measurably shown by letters addressed to the editor in June number (vol. 28), 1892, occasioned by an article in the same number taken from the "Brooklyn Medical Journal" of two months before, on "The Practical Sanitarian as Illustrated by a Life Sketch of A. N. Bell, A.M., M.D., by Stephen Smith, A.M., M.D., LL. D. The inference from Dr. Smith's article, written nineteen years subsequently to the advent of THE SANITARIAN, would, at first thought, seem to suggest that it was a sequel of what THE SANITARIAN had accomplished. But, on the contrary, it shows the basis of it, which the editor had taken no pains to make known at the outset of THE SANITARIAN, with evident purpose, as he in substance announced that THE SANITARIAN should speak for itself.

The general appreciation of it at that time, and it has in no respect lessened since, is abundantly shown by the letters referred to, in part, as follows:

Editor of THE SANITARIAN:

ELMIRA, N. Y., May 6, 1892.

It is needless to state that "all sorts and conditions of men" have profited by your labors in behalf of sanitary reform. Individually and through your journal sanitation, in the direction of schoolchildren, has witnessed development from small beginning up to the present advanced state of knowledge on the subject, by which the health of innumerable pupils has been preserved and education made possible, which otherwise would have been unattainable. This is only a single instance of what has been accomplished by means of enlightened sanitary inquiry, which in the manner of "line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little," has forced itself upon the attention of the medical profession. This branch of inquiry, which is mentioned by way of illustration, including the site and construction of schoolhouses, water supply, drainage, cubic space, the admission of light, building of desks and seats, hours of study, and physical training, shows the scope of investigation which has characterized THE SANITARIAN during the many years its pages have teemed with questions of the most. vital importance.

When we consider the wide range of topics that has filled the pages of THE SANITARIAN on questions embracing the health and welfare of the people, a summary is presented of the history of a particular field of inquiry, encyclopædic in character, which cannot be furnished in any other form. Indeed, the volumes of THE SANITARIAN constitute, in a shape available for ready reference, a complete presentation of what has been contributed to preventive medicine since you undertook to lead scientific investigation in the department you have been found so capable of illustrating.

WILLIAM C. WEY.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, TULANE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA, NEW ORLEANS, April 23, 1892.

DEAR DR. BELL: I take this opportunity to assure you of my highest appreciation of your erudition and experience as a sanitarian, and of the great value, unequaled in the United States, of your monthly publication, THE SANITARIAN.

STANFORD E. CHAILLÉ.

NEW YORK, May 2, 1892. DEAR DR. BELL: I congratulate you on the well-merited tribute accorded you by Dr. Stephen Smith, in the April number of the "Brooklyn Medical Journal," and upon the ability with which you have conducted THE SANITARIAN, now in the twentieth year of its existence. Each successive number has shown your untiring devotion to preventive medicine, and to say that THE SANITARIAN occupies the first place among the periodicals of its class is very far from overestimating its value as a practical and popular educator in all matters relating to public health. On its pages have been reported from time to time transactions of the various learned bodies whose labors are devoted in whole or in part to the improvement of human conditions, thus bringing readers in close relation to the best thinkers and workers of the age. In turning over its leaves one finds that it has recognized and supported every public movement promotive of the interests and welfare of the people. This is especially shown by the energy it has displayed in the organization of national, State and municipal boards of health, and voluntary health associations as means of securing a wise system of sanitary administration, and creating a popular interest in those subjects which relate to the prevention of disease and the saving of life. Public health administration has at all times been carefully reviewed, and wherever criticism has been deserved, your dearest personal friends have not escaped the strictures of your just, even though it be somewhat caustic, pen.

The subject of house sanitation has at all times received due attention, and you have kept pace with the most advanced views on this important branch of domestic hygiene. The same may be said of school hygiene, in the advocacy of which you have always been found at the front.

In the field of scientific investigation your readers have been kept well informed of the results of bacteriological study, the gradual growth and development of the germ theory; the value, use, and methods of employing antiseptics and disinfectants, detailing at length the results of experiments in testing the relative efficiency of the several agents used in this department of sanitary science and effective practical work.

The growing interest in matters pertaining to public health which THE SANITARIAN has done so much to foster is seen in the public press, heard from the pulpit and platform, and is especially shown by the establishment of professorships in medical, literary and technical institutions.