FOODS HUMAN NUTRITION. 261 



The relation of the renal excretion of nitrogen to water secretion is very 

 noticeable when such lartje quantities of protein are taken. 



The respiratory metabolism was always hij^her in the afternoon than in the 

 forenoon. During the night it was practically constant and in general unin- 

 fluenced by the food taken. 



Rearing an imperial race: Report of the Second Guildhall School Confer- 

 ence on Diet, Cookery, and Hygiene, e<lited by C. E. Hecht (London, WIS, 

 pp. XLVIII-\-50S, pis. 12, fig. 1). — A full report is given of this conference, 

 which had to do with diet, cookery, hygiene, dietai'ies, children's food require- 

 ments, clothing, and similar topics. Especial attention is paid to the teaching 

 of home econouiics topics, to malnutrition, to school lunchetms, and to similar 

 subjects, particularly with reference to Great Britain, while one section i.«< 

 devoted to a summary of data regarding work along such lines in other 

 countries. 



Among the papers presented may be mentioned Food Values, Catering, and 

 Cookery — An Account of the Teaching of These in Connection with the Other 

 Domestic Subjects in Primary Schools under the London County Council, by 

 Catherine R. Gordon ; Diet, Cookery, and Hygiene in Philanthropic Residential 

 Institutions for Children and Adolescents, by I-xlith Butler; How the Family 

 of the Agricultural Laborer Lives, by R. T. Herdman; The Diet of Country 

 School Children, by E. B. Smith ; Remarks on tlie Food Requirements of 

 Children, by C. Watson; The Bradford Feeding Experiment — Report on a 

 Course of Meals Given to Necessitous Children from April to July, lt)07, by 

 R. H. Crowley and Marian E. Cuff; and How Edinburgh Feeds and Clothes 

 Her School Children, by J. W. Peck. 



An exhibit of material bearing upon the subjects under consideration was 

 also arranged. The volume as a whole contains a large amount of data with 

 respect to the general question of work in home economics in England. 



For the previous conference, see an earlier note ( E. S. R., 2fi, p. 363). 



The cost of living of the laboring classes in the important industrial 

 countries: England, Germany, France, Belgium, and the United States, 

 C. VON Tyszka {Die Lebenshaltung der arheitenden Klassen in den bedeuten- 

 deren Industriestaaten: England, Deutschland, Frankreich, Belgien und Vereln- 

 igte Staaten von Amerika. Jena, 1912. pp. 69). — A comparison is made of the 

 wages paid in a number of the principal cities of each country in the building, 

 metal working, shipbuilding, and printing trades, and in the mining, textile, and 

 wood working industries. The prices of rents and food materials are compared 

 together with the budgets of the families of working ])eople in the various 

 countries. 



[Cooperative buying for] the Home Hospital experiment, J. A. Kingsbuey 

 (Survey, 31 (191^), No. Hi, pp. 583-588, figs. 8). — A cooperative store is main- 

 tained as a part of the home for families made dependent by tuberculosis, 

 which was established by the New York Association for Improving the Con- 

 dition of the Poor, as a 3-year demonstration experiment for the combined 

 treatment of this disease and poverty. The institution is a combination of 

 home and hospital. The well members of the families work and the sick are 

 given treatment. 



The average cost of food under the plan of cooperative buying has been re- 

 duced during the first year of operation from $1.30 to 93 cts. per day. The 

 administration and supervision charges amount to 20 cts. per person per day 

 for all members, both sick and well. Details are given of the other expendi- 

 tures. 



The budget of the Home Hospital "furnishes a fair basis for computing 

 the cost of maintaining a decent home and providing a comfortable living 



