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Those presented in 1915 included tlie following: Exclusion from Official 

 Establishments of Employees Affected with Communicable Disease, by H. H. 

 Hicks; Effect of Storage on Coffee, by R. E. Doolittle and B. B. Wright; 

 Effect of Storage on Moisture Content of Cloves, by A. W. Ogden; Physical 

 Examination of Employees Handling Food Products — Necessity, Progress Made, 

 Outlook, by H. E. Barnard ; and Sanitary Problems of the Soft Drink Estab- 

 lishment, by G. B. Taylor. 



The reports of the various committees are given for each year. 



The sanitation of public markets, D. B. Ahmsteong (Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc, 

 68 {1911), No. 2, pp. lOS-106). — In this paper the major points discussed are the 

 control of the quality of the products by laboratory examination, which includes 

 chemical, bacteriological, and calorific analyses ; the condition of the market 

 building ; sanitary aspects of the market equipment and the methods of handling 

 food ; and administrative control. Special emphasis is laid upon the importance 

 of the health and cleanliness of the employees, as essentials to which are given 

 a living wage, the selection of healthy persons as employees, periodic medical 

 examinations, and the provision of adequate sanitary toilet and hand-washing 

 facilities. 



Three delicious meals every day for the farmer, G. W. Car\t:e {Alabntna 

 Tuskegee Sta. Bui. 32 {1916), pp. 13). — This bulletin suggests an increase in 

 the amount and kind of foods raised on the farm, and includes menus for one 

 week, together with some recipes. It is intended especially for the use of negro 

 farmers in the South. 



The rural school lunch, Nbh^lie W. Faknswokth {St. Paul, Minn: Webb Pub- 

 lishing Co., 1916, pp. 42, figs. 12). — Information is given regarding equipment 

 and service. Recipes are included. 



Typical electric range designs, E. A. Wilcox {Jour. Electricity, 38 {1917), 

 No. 1, pp. IS, 14, figs. 4)- — Descriptions are given of different types of electric 

 heating units and ranges. 



The effects on higher animals of the sterilization of the inhabited medium, 

 the air, and the food, I. Kianizin {Jour. Physiol, 50 {1916), No. 7, pp. 391- 

 396). — This is a summary and digest of experiments by the author, as well as of 

 those of other investigators, along this line. 



It is stated that in the author's experiments higher animals soon died when 

 the micro-organisms were absent from the air and food, the length of life 

 varying in different animals. The experiments of numerous other investigators 

 showed that the absence or partial absence of micro-organisms has a deleterious 

 effect on nutrition. The author states that the micro-organisms of air are essen- 

 tial to life, and that in the absence of micro-organisms an imperfect assimilation 

 of nitrogen compounds occurs. 



Studies of the gastric residuum. — I, A study of 80 samples of g'astric 

 residuums obtained from apparently normal women, C. C. Fowler and Zelma 

 Zentmike {Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 68 {1917), No. 3, pp. 167-170, figs. 4).— The 

 observations here reported did not give evidence of any striking differences be- 

 tween the gastric residuums of normal women and normal men. The average 

 volume found was approximately 49 cc. 



Pancreatic diabetes in the dog. — IV, The influence of pylorus exclusion 

 and of gastrectomy upon the effects of pancreatectomy, J. R. Mltrlin and 

 J. E. Sweet {Jour. Biol. Chem., 28 {1916), No. 1, pp. 261-288).— The results of 

 these experiments with laboratory animals (dogs), taken in conjunction with 

 the re.sults of the work of another Investigator, which shows the extreme sensi- 

 tiveness of the mechanism for the oxidation of glucose to the concentration of 

 hydrogen Ions, and earlier work by the senior author, which demonstrates the 

 beneficial effect on the oxidation of glucose of administered alkali to totally 



