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drying or bv cresol solution, 1 in 20. These observations all emphasise 

 the importance of sanitary measures against the house-fly, its 

 destruction by traps and other means, the removal of its breeding 

 places, the protection of food, kitchens, dining-rooms and latrines, 

 and the removal of the dwellings of natives as far as possible from 

 those of Europeans. 



Olle ( ) & Davizf. (G.). Etuve a Sulfuration demontable et trans- 

 portable. [A detachable and portable Chamber for Sulphur Fumi- 

 gation.]— ^rcA. Med. & Phariii. Militaires, Paris, Ixvii, no. 4, 

 April 1917. 

 The fumigation cupboard described in this paper is substantially 

 the same in construction as one already noticed [see this Review, 

 Ser. B, iv, p. 177]. The equipment to be disinfected is hung up inside 

 it. Bedding is placed on a shelf of wire netting or similar material 

 preventing contact with the generator beneath. The latter is simply 

 a mess-tin placed en the floor of the cupboard. A container filled with 

 water is put on a tripod stand over the mess-tin and the burning 

 sulphm- evaporates the water so that the sulphurous anhydride vapours 

 are produced in a damp atmosphere. The operation is complete 

 in three hours. Six complete sets of equipment can be dealt with 

 simultaneously, or ten lots of bedding. 



PizziNi (L.). I Pidocchi nella Epidemiologia della Meningite cerebro- 

 spinale epidemica. [Lice in the Epidemiology of Epidemic Cerebro- 

 spinal Meningitis.]' — II Policlinico, Rome, xxiv, Sez. Med., no. 5, 

 1st May 1917, pp. 212-228. 

 This paper records observations on two outbreaks of cerebro-spinal 

 meningitis at Bergamo, from 1st February to 8th May 1915 and from 

 6th January to 19th May 1916, the total number of cases studied 

 being seventy-seven. Individuals infested with lice, or soldiers, who 

 from the nature of their duties have to occupy dirty premises, are 

 the most frequent sufferers. Some patients were found to have in 

 their underclothing lice vectors of the meningococcus of Weichsel- 

 baum, or to have handled garments infested with such lice. The 

 months during which the disease is prevalent are those during which 

 lice are definitely parasitic. 



Coleman (L. V.). Insect-borne Diseases. — Syllabus Guide to Public 



Health Exhibits in theAmer. Mus. of Nat. History, New York City, 



Guide Leaflet Series no. 45, May 1917, 14 pp. [Received 



11th August 1917.] 



This leaflet contains useful information in a popular form on the 



principal insect-borne diseases and their mode of transmission. The 



diseases dealt with include bubonic plague, malaria, yellow fever, 



typhus, sleeping sickness and tick fever. Simple methods of control 



of rats, mosquitos and the house-fly are given. 



Manson (Sir P.). Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.— .BnY. Med. Jl., 

 London, no. 2952, 28th July 1917, pp. 103-109. 

 This paper gives a resume of the principal tropical diseases caused 

 bv protozoal organisms and helminths. Among those which are known 



