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the United States; (2), a detailed discussion of the typhoid fever situa- 

 tion in Yakima County, taken as a somewhat typical instance of high 

 typhoid fever prevalence in American communities; and (3) a report on 

 an investigation of typhoid fever in North Yakima, Washington. Fol- 

 lowing the body of the report are two appendices. The first (A) being 

 on the subject of the construction and maintenance of a sanitary privy 

 and the second, (B) on the subject of measures to prevent the spread of 

 infection from the bedside of a typhoid fever patient. The bulletin is 

 well illustrated, and is written in semi-popular style so as to be readily 

 intelligible to the lay reader. 



The section on typhoid fever in North Yakima deals particularly with 

 an outbreak of the disease in May and June, 1911, which was attributed 

 to infection in water pumped into the city mains from a pond used as an 

 auxiliary source of water for a large lumber mill on the edge of the city, 

 and with a sanitary campaign carried out in the city in the summer of 

 1911. The author concludes that as a result of the campaign the rate 

 of prevalence of typhoid fever in North Yakima for the summer and fall 

 of 1911 was reduced by over 90 per cent. L. L. L. 



PATHOLOGY. — XVIII. A statistical study of the nasal lesions in 

 leprosy. Harry T. Hollmann, U. S. Public Health and Marine 

 Hospital Service, Honolulu, T. H. Public Health Bulletin 50. 



This article gives the results of the examination of the nasal mucous 

 membrane of 500 lepers, and shows that of these cases, 152 of the nodular 

 type of this disease showed lesions of the nasal mucous membrane, while 

 19 of the same type showed no nasal lesions. Of the anaesthetic type, 

 174 presented nasal lesions, while in the case of 53 the nasal mucosa 

 appeared normal. Of the mixed type of the disease, 84 presented nasal 

 lesions, while 18 were free from them. 



The nasal lesions mentioned included hypertrophic rhinitis, atrophic 

 rhinitis, perforation of the nasal septum and absorption of cartilage. Of 

 these several types of lesions, the latter was the one most commonly 

 met with. Donald H. Currie. 



REFERENCES 



AGRICULTURE. — Publications of the bureau of plant industry since January, 

 1911: Bulletin 198 — Dimorphic branches in tropical crop plants; cotton, coffee, 

 cacao, the Central American rubber tree, and the banana, O. F. Cook. Bulle- 

 tin 192 — Drought resistance of the olive in the southwestern States, Silas C. 

 Mason. Bulletin 203 — The importance and improvement of the grain sor- 



