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[Dietaries and accounts for Poor Law Unions, England and Wales] {Local 

 Govt. Bd. [Ot. Brit.], Workhouse Regulation (Dietaries and Accts.) Order, 1900, 

 pp. 27; Rpt. Dept. Com. Local Govt. Bd. [Gt. Brit.] Poor Law Orders, 1 {WIS), 

 pp. 8, 15, 16, 37-Jf7, 83-88).— In the general order issued to the Guardians of 

 the Poor of the several Poor Law T'nions in England and Wales, and com- 

 mented uiK)n and in part reprinted by the committee on the revision of Poor 

 Law Orders, regulations are given regarding dietaries and accounts and rations 

 are outlined in detail. Brief instructions are appended to the list of rations 

 and recipes are given for the preparation of a large number of dishes. Forms 

 for ration accounting are also included. 



Diet social service in dispensary work, F. H. Klaer {Med. Rec. [N. Y.], 8^ 

 (1913), No. 18, pp. 792-795).— This is an account of the results of work carried 

 on in connection with the Social Service of the Outpatient Department and the 

 Medical Dispensary of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. 



The patients or families visited by the dietitian fell into two general classes, 

 viz, individual patients suffering with various digestive disturbances or diseases 

 requiring special diets, and families requiring a readjustment of finances, food, 

 and habits of eating, because of debts, malnutrition, and sickness. 



Often individual cases became family cases because it was impossible to 

 correct dietary conditions for one member without changing those of the whole 

 household. It was not always possible to obtain satisfactory cooperation, but 

 in the majority of cases the visitors were able to introduce noteworthy improve- 

 ments in the health and also in the financial condition of the family by teaching 

 more economical ways of buying and utilizing food as well as better methods 

 of preparation, and thus prevented as well as cured many unnecessary cases of 

 malnutrition. 



A food clinic {Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., 61 {1913), No. 16, pp. 1462, 1463).-- 

 A summary of a paper by W. M. Roach, presented at the Congress on School 

 Hygiene, held in Buffalo, N. Y., in August, 1913. Some account is given of the 

 favorable effects of feeding school children in Philadelphia. 



Report to the local government board on bacterial food poisoning and food 

 infections, W. G. Savage {Rpts. Local Govt. Bd. [Gt. Brit.], Pub. Health and 

 Med. Subjs., n. ser., 1913, No. 77, pp. 80, pi. i).— In this digest of data the author 

 summarizes and discusses information regarding the different kinds of food 

 poisoning, both bacterial and that attributed to ptomaines. 



According to the report, three considerations should be borne in mind, 

 namely, the association of some outbreaks at least with actual disease of the 

 animals whose flesh was eaten ; the probability that in other outbreaks uncon- 

 taminated food had become infected from the tissues or intestinal contents of 

 food animals in which bacterial invasion was present, as may happen when a 

 slaughterhouse is used as a place for the preparation of sausages and similar 

 meat foods; and that the spreading of disease by bacterial infection, when 

 present, may be affected by lack of cleanliness and care in handling, preparing, 

 and storing foods. 



An appendix contains a list of British and continental outbreaks of food 

 poisoning, recommendations of the local government board on outbreaks, and 

 a bibliography. 



The relation of diets and of castration to the transmissible tumors of rats 

 and mice, J. E. Sweet, Ellen P. Corson-White, and G. J. Saxon {Jour. Biol. 

 Chem., 15 {1913), No. 1, pp. 181-191). — A generous and an insufficient diet were 

 compared, the conclusion being that both susceptibility to transplantable tumors 

 and the rate of growth of transplanted tumors may be influenced positively 

 or negatively by diet— the rate of growth being slower and the number of 

 retrogressions being higher on the low than on the normal diet. 



