GENERAL BALANCE SHEET. Liabilities. To Fees and Subscriptions paid in advance for 1896... £10,250 5 3 Examined with the Books and Accounts and found correct, ALFRED LASS, WOOD & Co., Chartered Accountants, Auditors. March 3rd, 1896. 31st DECEMBER, 1895. Assets. By Leases of Premises, Library and Contents of Museum, Furniture, and Publications. Subscriptions in Arrear and Sundry Debtors Cash in hand cost Investment (£8,248 11s. 1d. Consolidated Stock) valued at £ s. d. 1,938 13 6 182 5 9 102 8 6 8,026 17 6 £10,250 5 3 REVIEWS OF BOOKS. HYGIENE.* The favourable reception awarded to the first edition of this book has necessitated the issue of a second within a year. The book is an excellent one in every way and is worthy of the high reputation of its authors. Within a small compass there has been collected all the most important facts and principles concerned in the science of Hygiene, and yet the material is presented in a thoroughly readable and agreeable form. The information contained is invariably authentic and up-to-date, and students may rely upon the accuracy and correctness with which the work has been compiled. The last chapter contains a summary of the existing sanitary law of the country, and will be found very helpful by those who have to acquire an acquaintance with this subject. The subject is one difficult to deal with in the few pages of a chapter, but every one who examines the amount of detail here contained will acknowledge that the authors have extracted the gist of the enactments, by-laws and regulations for the benefit of their readers. It is quite evident that it will not be long before a third edition of this excellent manual will be required. L. C. P. DOMESTIC ECONOMY.+ This Reader for Standards VI. and VII., seems a useful and instructive contribution to the needs of the Board School children of the day. Enough has already been done in giving instruction beyond children's comprehension, which not having assimilated they can only in due time forget; and it would be well now to give children an ideal of what their homes should be in the housing, clothing, and feeding of its inmates; and while the standard would probably be above the reach of many of the poorest, yet the teaching would have an elevating effect upon all, and would suggest and lead to improvement where the perfection was beyond attainment. More domestic teaching and inspiration of the young of to-day will possibly be found to be the solution of the great social problem of the housing and tending of the poor of the next generation. The little manual follows the rational line by bringing before the children's minds the homely occupations of life in a pleasant bright manner. The book is printed in good style and the illustrations are effective. In the chapter on Warming the House, however, it seemed hardly worth while to call attention to closed stoves, as they are acknowledged by all sanitarians to be one of the least healthy modes of warming, and in the chapter on everyday ills, it would have been well for the writer to have confined herself to teaching only preventive measures and nursing, the use of curative medicine such as aconite and corrosive sublimate should hardly be taught to young girls in such an irresponsible manner as by a school reader. I. W. * Hygiene, by Prof. J. F.R.C.S. 8vo., 426 pp. + 200 pp., Crown 8vo. Lane Notter, M.A., M.D., and Surg.-Major R. H. Firth, NOTES ON BOOKS AND PAPERS IN "An Essay on Malaria and its Consequences." By ROBERT LINDSAY, A.M., M.B., F.R.C.S.E. 116 pp., 8vo. H. K. Lewis. London, 1895. Price 41-. The Author here deals with the cause and treatment of Malarial Disease based on personal experience while serving with the Army. "Army Medical Department Report for the year 1894." Vol. XXXVI. 391 pp., 8vo. Eyre & Spottiswoode. London, 1896. Price 1/10. The greater portion of this report is taken up with Reports on the Health of Troops at home and abroad. Included is a report by Prof. J. Lane Notter, M.A., M.D., reviewing the progress of Hygiene during 1895 and referring to legislation and literature for the year; under "Special Points of Hygiene" to the following: Diphtheria, Vitality and Detection of Pathogenic Bacteria in Water, Enteric Fever, and the Disposal of Excreta, Filtration of Potable Water, Disinfectants, &c. From the Report we learn that the subject selected for the next "Parkes Memorial Prize" is "The Etiology, Prevalence and Prevention of Diphtheria." The Prize consists of Seventy-five Guineas in money and a Bronze Medal. The competition is open to Medical Officers of the Army, Navy, and Indian Services, of Executive Rank and on full pay, with the exception of Assistant Professors of the Army Medical School during term of office. "A Sanitary Survey of Glamorganshire." By WILLIAM WILLIAMS, M.A., M.D., D.P.H.(Oxon.), County Medical Officer. 118 pp., 8vo. Daniel Owen & Co. Cardiff, 1895. This is practically Dr. Williams' thesis presented for the M.D. degree at Oxford. It is claimed to be the first systematic sanitary survey of its kind ever made of any County in England and Wales. Part I. is devoted to the physical features of the country; Part II. to its health, history and vital statistics; and Part III. to the sanitary condition of the various districts. "History of the Cholera Controversy, with directions for the treatment of the disease." By Sir GEORGE JOHNSON, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S. 78 pp., 8vo. J. & A. Churchill. A history of the pathology and treatment of Cholera during more than forty years, and essentially a record of the author's personal experience in the treatment of the disease. "Sewerage and Sewage Disposal." By Prof. HENRY ROBINSON, M.Inst.C.E. 192 pp., 8vo. E. & F. N. Spon. London, 1896. Price 126. In the course of his professional practice, the author, having had occasion to investigate the information available to Engineers through the researches of Chemists and Biologists, in relation to Water Supply, Sewerage and Sewage Disposal, has here made a summary of the most important data, dealing at the same time with the allied subjects of Water Pollution and Filtration, and Sewage Purification. The chief conditions to be complied with in the Drainage of Houses and the Sewering of Towns and the calculation of the Flow in Sewers are also summarised. The book contains a number of tables, formulæ, and statistics, relating to sewerage and sewage disposal. "The Law Relating to Building, with Precedents of Building This work claims to be both practical and complete on the extensive subjects of which it treats. Besides the subjects named in the title, information is given relating to Cesspools, Water Closets, Sewers, Drains, Nuisances, and other matters of Sanitary Interest, and there is a comprehensive Index occupying 67 pages. "Weather and Disease: a Curve history of their variations in recent years.' By ALEX. B. MACDOWALL, M.A., F.R.Met.Soc. 83 pp., 8vo. The Graphotone Co., London, 1895. The author, believing that the question of the influence of the weather on health is a subject which is greatly in need of elucidation, has written this little work with the object of giving an idea of the way in which certain elements of our weather, and the mortality from some well-known diseases, have varied in recent years. The method adopted is by means of graphic curves on charts, divided into squares, which the author avers makes the whole thing clear at once, and is to be preferred to dealing with columns of figures. There are in all 36 charts and 36 pages of explanatory matter. Twenty of the charts deal with the "Weather"-Rainfall, Winters, Frosts, Summers, Sunspots, Thunderstorms, Seasons, London Fogs, &c.; and sixteen with "Disease "-Measles, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Small-pox, Whooping Cough, Respiratory Diseases, &c. |