over.

THE total number of deaths reported for the month was 2,402. This is a death rate of 11.6. Compared with the preceding month, this is a decrease of .6, and a decrease of 2.2 as compared with the corresponding month of last year. Fourteen and three-tenths per cent. of all deaths, 325, were of children under one year of age; 6.9 per cent., numbering 157, were from one to four years, inclusive; 28 per cent., numbering 637, were 65 years and The ever prevailing consumption caused 327 deaths. In the corresponding month last year there were 302 deaths from consumption. For typhoid fever there is a slight improvement in comparison with the same month last year, the figures being, respectively, 156 deaths in November, 1901, and 164 deaths in November, 1900. Diphtheria shows a decided improvement in that this November reports 143 deaths from this disease, and in November, 1900, there were 172. Scarlet fever, likewise, shows favorably for November of this year, the figures being 10 and 15, respectively. So far as pneumonia is concerned, there appears an increase over the corresponding month of last year, the figures being, November, 1901, 206 deaths; November, 1900, 191 deaths. The other comparisons between the two months are, respectively, as follows, for 1900 and 1901: Whooping-cough, 21 and 10; diarrheal diseases, 68 and 58; cerebro-spinal meningitis, 42 and 13; puerperal fever, 15 and 15; cancer, 93 and 88; violence, 126 and 106; smallpox, I and 2.

RHODE ISLAND.

Vol. XIII., Nos. 5 and 6 of the Monthly Bulletin, published by the State Board of Health of the wee State up the coast is before us; but for the life of us we cannot learn from it anything tangible as to the mortality rate and other health statistics of

the State. Although the pamphlet is headed "May-Sept., 1901," there is but one table of mortality given-that for July. According to this table the total number of deaths in the State for that month was 748. The mortality for the other months presumably included is not mentioned.

Wake up, Health Board of Little Rhody, and give us reports that report!

SAN FRANCISCO, CALA.

Estimated population, 360,000. Males, 204,500; females, 155,500. [Wanted, at the Golden Gate, 50,000 women!—ED. GAZETTE.] Whole number of deaths for the month of October, 566. Death rate per annum, 18.8 per 1,000.

Births registered for the month, 500. Birth-rate per 1,000 per annum, 16.6.

[With the advent of 50,000 competent women this proportion ought to be reversed. -ED. GAZETTE.]

The mean temperature of the city for the month was 61.7° F. The maximum temperature occurred on the 12th-91° F., the minimum on the 14th and 15th-50° F.

The maximum wind velocity was attained on the 27th-30 miles per hour; the minimum on the 11th-11 miles. The average daily motion was 198 miles.

There were 68 deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis and 14 from other forms of tubercular infection.

We should like to know how many of these, if any, were native born and how many were immigrants from other sections.

Bubonic plague is credited with 3 fatalities, diphtheria 10, carcinoma 29, septic dis

eases, 7.

CHICAGO, ILL.

Total number of deaths, 2,070. Annual death rate during year ending Sept. 30, 1901, 13.95, against 15.37 for same period 1900, and of 14.73 for the five years ending Sept. 30, 1901.

Book Reviews.

PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE, VOL. IV., 1901. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by HoBART AMORY HARE, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, handsomely bound in cloth, 400 pages, 13 illustrations. Per annum, in four cloth-bound volumes, $10. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York.

The final volume, for this year, of this

valuable series is, if possible, more interesting than any of its predecessors. This is principally because the topics discussed are of more than ordinary importance.

Einhorn's paper on Diseases of the Digestive Organs is worth the price of the whole series for the year. Dr. Einhorn covers, in his masterful way, the most important because the most prevalent diseases now occupying the medical mind. Ninetenths of all the diseases have their origin in disorders of the digestive tract. To eliminate these would add more to human happiness and longevity than can well be expressed in words or figures. The medical man who is well up in diseases of the digestion need never want for subjects on which to materialize his skill.

Dr. Belfield's topic, Genito-Urinary Diseases, is also one of great importance, and

he has treated it with all the thoroughness

and care its importance demands.

The other sections of the work-Bloodgood on Anesthesia and Surgical Procedures, Brubaker on Physiology, and Thornton's Practical Therapeutic Referendum-are all equally commendable.

The volume is mechanically equal to its predecessors, which is ample praise.

Practical Sanitation. By George M.
Price, M.D. New York, John Wiley &
Sons, 1901.

In his preface the author well says: "In this era of intense interest in all matters relating to public health and practical sanitation, no defence is needed for the presentation of a new book on the subject, especially as the book presents the subject in a form hitherto unexploited."

Part First is devoted to Sanitary Science, and includes the topics of Soil and Sites, Air, Ventilation, Warming, Water, WaterSupply, Disposal of Sewage, Sewers, Plumbing, Plumbing Pipes, Plumbing Fixtures and Defects in Plumbing; Examination and Tests.

Part Second covers the topics of The Tenement House Problem, Tenement Houses, Private Dwellings, Lodging Houses, Sweat-Shops, Work-Shops and Factories, Mercantile Establishments, the Smoke Nuisance, Bakeries, Stables, Slaughter Houses, Offensive Trades, Food, Meat, Milk and Milk-Inspection, Infectious Diseases, Disinfection and Disinfectants, and School Inspection.

Part Third includes Sanitation as a Profession, Qualifications for and Art of Inspection, Tenement-House Inspection, Sanitary Inspectors in the United States, Civil Service Examinations, Notes of a Complete Tenement-House Inspection, Example of a Complaint, Calculation of Areas and cubic Space, and Useful Memoranda and Tables.

Part Fourth covers the whole subject of

Sanitary Law as applicable to the foregoing items and features of this subject.

This is a comprehensive list of contents, and the author is to be congratulated on the manner in which he has acquitted himself of his task.

He is right in his claim that there is no such work now in the market.

We could add to this claim that no work is more needed at this moment. It brings science in the field of sanitation down to the comprehension of every intelligent reader.

HOME ECONOMICS; a Guide to Household Management, Including the the Proper Treatment of the Materials Entering into the Construction and the Furnishing of the House. By Maria Parloa. Ilustrated. New York: The Century Co. If we should set out by saying that Miss Parloa's name has become a household word we should use the term in a pertinent and exact, rather than a hackneyed sense. The volume before us is one of her best in that it covers more general and essential items of healthful and economic living than any of the others.

In the course of the work she goes into the commonest and, therefore, the most practical details, as will be seen by the comprehensive table of contents:

Some Essentials of the Home; The Water Supply; Furnishing; Daily Routine of Household Work; The Laundry; Care of Lighting Appliances; Fuel and Fires; Table Service; Marketing; The Art of Carving; Food; Woods and Polished Floors; Treatment of Wood Finishes; Oils, Their Use and Behavior; Stains; Miscellaneous Matters.

Miss Parloa has earned a reputation for talking to the point, and this work fully comports with that reputation. The chapter on Food is alone worth many times the price of the volume. Every housewife who would become intelligent in her sphere and who desires to accomplish the greatest good without unnecessary outlay, who would combine efficiency with economy, should possess this work and keep it within easy reach for constant reference.

A WEDDING without a ring seems incongruous, but in Cadiz, Spain, no ring is used. After the ceremony the bridegroom moves the flower in his bride's hair from left to right, for in various parts of Spain to wear a rose above your right ear is to proclaim yourself a wife.

Editor's Table.

THE OUTLOOK.

APTNESS in names is really becoming an art. The title of this sterling weekly magazine is an apt illustration. The World's Work is another recent instance. Plenty of the names selected for periodicals are well enough in a conventional way. They are Chronicles, or Tribunes, or Heralds, or Journals, but the names signify nothing more than legal or literary identification. The Outlook, merely as a name, has a meaning. It suggests limitless possibilities. Whoever receives its weekly visits and seeks its pages keeps himself in touch with the foremost problems of the age, for they are all discussed with candor and ability. It is not so abstruse as to be unintelligible, nor so committed to dogmatism as to be blind to the practical needs of the work-a-day world, or the moral hunger of ordinary mortals.

WE have received from the publishers a long-promised volume entitled "Rational Hydrotherapy," by Dr. Kellogg, of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.*

Dr. Kellogg never puts pen to paper until he has something to say, and that is pretty often.

This work is evidently his masterpiece, and in due time we shall accord it a notice commensurate with its size (1,193 octavo pages) and its importance.

No man in this country is more competent to prepare such a work, and the trend of modern medical thought is at present steadily in the direction of natural and opposed to artificial methods of treating diseases.

*Philadelphia, the F. A. Davis Co, 1901.

NOT TO DIE.

(Julian Ralph in The World's Work.)

"No European nation has ever been forced to bend its etiquette of fighting to meet such conditions as Great Britain has encountered of late. When the Italians were so disgracefully beaten by Menelik in the hinterland of Abyssinia they met a fairly orderly army trained to European methods. The Germans neither knew nor believed in any mode of fighting except by the movement of great bodies in close order as when they won the war with France. To have engaged the Boers in that way would have been to lose men as Methuen lost his men at Belmont, Graspan, Modder and Maghersfontein; for Methuen is an oldfashioned soldier who believes the methods of Wellington are still good enough for him. He is the sort of soldier that perpetuates the old idea of 'dying for the King,' whereas your modern master of war-your Boer-believes in killing the enemy and keeping your own skin whole. skin whole. Neither England nor any other nation will ever again send men to war with the absurd injunction, 'Go and die for your country.' It is too easy to die. The real art is in killing the other chaps and living to do it again."

HERE is a letter that was received a few days ago by a prominent firm of bicycle dealers:

deer Surs. I live on my farm near Hamilton Kansas and am 57 years old and a little Sporta. My neffew in Indiana bot hisself a new bissikle and sent me his old one by frate, and Ive learned to ride sume. Its a pile of fun, but my bissikle jolts considerable. A feller com along yestiddy with a bissikle that had holler injun rubber tires stuffed with wind. He let me try hissen and mi, it run like a kushen. He told me you sell injun rubber just the same as hissen? Mine is all iron wheels. Do you

THE yakamik, a species of crane, is said to be one of the most intelligent birds known. The bird is used by the natives of Venezuela, South America, in the place of shepherd dogs, for guarding and herding their flocks of sheep. It is said that however far the yakamik may wander with the flocks, it never fails to find its way home at night, driving before it all the creatures entrusted to its care.

Ir is reported that forty thousand people die every year in Germany from cancer.

Query 108. I would like your advice as to the most satisfactory style of electrical apparatus for general purposes in the practice of a country physician. I prefer dry cells. Is it best to procure a combined battery-galvanic and faradic in one-or to purchase one of each kind separately? T. E. C., Mont.

Answer. There are many makes in the market and all of them, at least those that come from houses with any reputation behind them, have desirable qualities. If you prefer a combined battery of moderate power the McIntosh 24 dry cell with milliampere meter and Jewell graphite rheotome is a very satisfactory working and well finished instrument. It uses an improved form of dry cell, which can easily be renewed when exhausted, has an automatic cut-off that prevents all waste of the cells when the lid is closed, and costs $50. Send to the Co. at Chicago for a catalogue and use your own judgment in selecting.

Query 109 Does cooking flesh destroy any considerable portion of its nutritive value? G. N., Mo.

Answer. This subject has been considerably discuss d pro and con, and good authorities are ranged on both sides of the argument. One side positively demonstrates that meat, or flesh, loses nutritive elements in every process of cooking.

Many chemic analyses are cited to prove this fact.

The other side denies the accuracy of the experiments and analyses, and clinches the argument with the assertion that the real nutritive value of a steak or mutton chop nicely broiled can not be determined by chemic analysis. They insist with reason that the attitude of the digestive organs toward any item of food has very much to do with its real dietetic value. Sawdust contains nutritive elements, but human beings have never been able to live on it.

If there are losses in cooking there are also gains-gustatory as well as nutritive. We have no sympathy with the advocates of raw flesh. Query 110. Is shredded wheat biscuit, now so widely advertised, a good form of food for a dyspeptic?

I have not had opportunity to try it in my practice. L. F. M., Canada. Answer.-Excellent in all ordinary cases.

Query III. What would you recommend as the best single volume work on food? I will be obliged for price and publisher's_address. C. A. R., Texas.

Answer.-Food and the Principles of Dietetics, by Hutchison. It is published by William Wood & Co., of this city. Price five dollars.

LAST fall I tried the experiment when repotting my large geraniums for winter of putting the pots into pails of water. Instead of drooping, turning yellow and dropping their leaves, the plants continued fresh and green, and bore no signs of having been transplanted. I kept the plants in the pails for a week or ten days.-Good Housekeeping.

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians, that they know no mean, to be entreated either to begin or end.-Ben Jonson.

THE very truth hath a color from the disposition of the utterer.-Georgt Eliot. When the sun shineth, make hay.-J. Heywood.

Whenever the faculties of men are at their fullness, they must express themselves by art.-Ruskin.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.-Young.

Women are most fools when they think they're wisest.-Beaumont and Fletcher. Virtue best loves those children that she beats.-Herrick.

Wake not a sleeping wolf.-Shakespeare.