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BACTERIOLOGY. — Abortive cases of poliomyelitis; an experimental 

 demonstration of specific immune bodies in their blood-serum. John 

 F. Anderson and Wade H. Frost, Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. 

 Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Journal of the Amer- 

 ican Medical Association, 56: 663-667. 1911. 



This paper gives the results of a series of experiments to demonstrate 

 the existence of abortive cases of poliomyelitis or infant. le paralysis by 

 making use of the serum of recovered cases of this disease to neutralize 

 the virus of poliomyelitis. It was found that the clinical diagnosis of 

 abortive cases of poliomyelitis was confirmed by laboratory experiments 

 in 66 per cent of the cases studied. These findings have a most signifi- 

 cant bearing on the diagnosis and epidemiology of acute anterior polio- 

 myelitis. J. F. A. 



BACTERIOLOGY. — Experimental measles in the monkey: a preliminary 

 note. John F. Anderson and Joseph Goldberger, Hygienic 

 Laboratory, U. S. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. 

 Public Health Reports, 25: 847. 1911. Experimental measles 

 in the monkey: a supplemental note. John F. Anderson and 

 Joseph Goldberger. Ibid. 25: 887. 1911. The period of 

 infectivity of the blood in measles. John F. Anderson and Joseph 

 Goldberger. Journal of the American Medical Association, 57: 

 113. 1911. . 



Previous to the appearance of these brief papers, various investigators 

 had reported that the monkey was not susceptible to measles. The 

 authors, however, have shown that the monkey is susceptible to measles 

 by inoculation of the blood or of the nasal and buccal secretion from 

 human cases of measles. Further, that when a well monkey is placed in 

 the cage with a monkey suffering from measles the former contracts the 

 disease after the usual incubation period. It is believed that the results 

 reported in these papers mark an important advance in our knowledge of 

 the etiology of measles. It is hoped that further work may definitely 

 determine the cause of measles and the means of its transmission and 

 methods by which the disease can be prevented. J. F. A. 



SANITATION. — Sewage pollution of interstate and international waters, 

 with special reference to the spread of typhoid fever. I. — Lake Erie and 

 the Niagara river. Allan J. McLaughlin, Hygienic Laboratory, 

 U. S. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Bulletin of 

 the Hygienic Laboratory, No. 77. 1911. 



This is the first of a series of papers which it is contemplated to pre- 

 sent for publication on the problem as it affects certain international 



