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Sanitation in India. By J. A. TURNER, M.D., D.P.H., Executive Health 

 Officer, Bombay Municipality, with Contributions by B. K. GOLDSMITH, 

 Ml'., D.P.H., S. C. HORMUSJI, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., M.D., D.P.H., 

 K. B. SHROFF, L.M.S., D.P.H., D.T.M., and L. Godinho, L.M. & S., 

 M.D., D.P.H. [Pp. viii + 1014. Illustrated.] (Bombay: The Times oj 

 //ul 'in, 19 1 4.) 



This is a book of the same size, but is more technical in its structure. It is 

 dedicated to the Municipal Corporation of Bombay, and is written by the 

 Executive Health Officer of that great city — which is now become perhaps the 

 second city in the Empire. There are contributions by four able medical men. 

 The work begins with an outline of sanitary administration in India, and then 

 continues with the disposal of town refuse and sewage, water supply, food and 

 milk, infectious diseases and their prevention, malaria and other diseases due to 

 animal parasites, disinfection, dangerous trades, school hygiene, housing, and 

 vital statistics ; and there are specially useful chapters on habits and customs in 

 relation to health and on the routine work of sanitary officials. The matter 

 appears to be very correct as a rule, but it is unfortunate that parthenogenesis is 

 definitely described as being a third method of reproduction in malaria. Such 

 statements are examples of the way in which what were originally merely con- 

 jectures, even of a wild description, become gradually crystallised by the petri- 

 faction of time into absolute truths. Once this has happened, scarcely any amount 

 of criticism of the supposed truth is effective in getting it eliminated from the 

 text-books. The work will be a necessary part of the health officer's library, 

 especially now that Mr. J. A. Jones's book is out of print. 



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Hygiene and Diseases of India. A Popular Handbook. By Lieut. -Col. 

 Patrick Hehir, I. M.S., M.D., D.P.H., D.T.M. Third Edition, Revised 

 and Illustrated. [Pp. ii + 1003.] (Madras: Higginbothams, Ltd., 1913. 

 Price 6-8 Rs.) 



Colonel Hehir, a distinguished officer of the Indian Medical Service, has 

 written many useful works relating to the prevention of disease, medical adminis- 

 tration, etc. His book under review (third edition) is stated to be a popular 

 handbook, and should therefore be considered as such. This does not mean that 

 the work is not worthy to be a book of reference for medical sanitarians. It is 

 full of useful information ; but the necessary table of detailed contents is not 

 given, and the reader is obliged to rely mostly upon an index. The book is, 

 however, divided into three sections, namely, General Hygiene, Personal Hygiene, 



and Diseases of India, and is very suitable for public instruction. 



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Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable. By Dr. Heinrich Burkhardt, 

 O. Professor, Technical School, Munich. Authorised Translation from the 

 Fourth German Edition, with the Addition of Figures and Exercises by 

 S. E. Rasor, M.Sc, Professor of Mathematics, the Ohio State University. 

 London : D. C. Heath & Co., 2 and 3, Portsmouth Street, Kingsway, W.C. 

 (Pp. xiii, 432.) Price I2.y. 6d. net. 



