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Membership. 578 active (annual dues, $5), of whom 129 are also members of 

 the Laboratory section; i life; 4 foreign; 4 honorary. 



Publications. 



PUBLIC HEALTH PAPERS AND REPORTS, v. I-XXXI. Presented at the 

 ist-33<i annual meeting . . . 1873-1905. Columbus, Ohio, [etc.], 

 1875-1906. 8. 



Title varies slightly. Publisher's lettering: Public health. Reports and 



papers of the American public health association, 

 v. 20-23 called Quarterly series, v. 1-4; issued as Journal . . . 

 v. 1-3 pub. at New York; v. 4-8 at Boston; v. 9-23 at Concord, N. H. 

 v. 30-31 each in 2 separately bound parts, the 2d parts, pub. at Chicago, 



containing reports and papers presented to the Laboratory section, with 



caption title Journal of infectious diseases, Supplement no. 1-2, May 



1905-Feb. 1906. 



Public health. The Lomb prize essays. Award made at the I3th an- 

 nual meeting . . . 1885. Concord, N. H., 1886. 8. 



Contents: I. Healthy homes and food for the working classes. By V. C. 

 Vaughan. 2. The sanitary conditions and necessities of school-houses 

 and school-life. By D. F. Lincoln. 3. Disinfection and individual 

 prophylaxis against infectious diseases. By G. M. Sternberg. 4. The 

 preventable causes of disease, injury and death in American manufac- 

 tories and workshops, and the best means and appliances for preventing 

 and avoiding them. By G. H. Ireland. 



Appendix contains list of authors and titles of papers in Public health 

 papers and reports, v. i-io. 



Each essay also issued separately as a pamphlet, no. 3, rev. ed., pub. 1900. 



Disinfection and disinfectants : their application and use in the preven- 

 tion and treatment of disease, and in public and private sanitation. 

 By the Committee on disinfectants, appointed by the . . . association. 

 Concord, N. H., 1888. 8. 



Contains the 3 annual reports presented to the association 1885-87, with 

 bibliography and index. 



Practical sanitary and economic cooking adapted to persons of moderate 

 and small means, by Mrs. Mary Hinman Abel. The Lomb prize 

 essay [for 1888]. Rochester, N. Y., 1890. 12. 



Reprinted, with additions, 1900. 



Procedures recommended for the study of bacteria, with especial refer- 

 ence to greater uniformity in the description and differentiation of 

 species. Concord, N. H., 1898. 8. o. p. 



Distribution. On sale by the Treasurer. 



