DRAFT OF A CLASSIFICATION FOR THE WORLD's FAIR. 725 



876. LiKE-.SAViXG — Continued. 



S<itt'ty from explosions — storing and transportation of explosive gases and 

 indammable substances. Gas-eseape indicators. Alarm signals, feed appli- 

 ances, and pressure gauges for preventing boiler explosions. Fire-danixi 

 indicators and safety lamps for miners. 



Safety from accidents of land transportation — Brakes for borse vebicles. 

 Railway signals, level <'rossings, automatic couplers. Precaution against 

 color Itlinduess. 



Safety from accidents of water travel — Liglit-bouse systems. Vessel signals. 

 Fog signals. Life-preservers, buoys. Appliances and organization of 

 life-saving service. 



Safety from rabid or venomous animals. 



Relief of victims of accidents— relief of victims of suffocation. Relief of 

 tliose apparently drowned. Rcdief of those wbo have taken poison . Treat- 

 ment of cuts, bruises, and fractures. Aids of sick and injured. 



Transport: By human agency — stretchers, litters, ^hoolies, palanquins, 

 handcarts. By animal traction — for accidents and injury, for infections 

 diseases, for ordinary sickness. By mechanical means — railway carriages 

 for sick and injured, water carriage. Treatment (witb appliances) — («) 

 shed hospitals for infections fevers and epidemic diseases; (fc) tent hos- 

 pitals; (c) hospital ships; (d) furniture and fittings for sick rooms. 



Aid to sick and wounded in war. Transport: («) By human agencies — 

 stretchers, litters, dhoolies, palanquins, handcarts, stretchers on wheels; 

 (h) by animal traction — mule litters and chairs, camel and elephiint litters, 

 wheel carriages; (c) by mechanical means — railway ambulances, ship or 

 water carriage. Treatment (with portable appliances and jtortable 

 drugs) — (ft) on the field ; (h) in shed hospitals ; (c) in tent hospitals. Naval 

 and military hygiene. 



877. Public Charities. 



Asylums — instruction and care of the defective classes. Blind asylums 

 Deaf and dumb asylums. (Plans, furniture, etc.) 



Reformatory institutions — Inebriate asylums. Magdalen asylums. Creches 

 or day nurseries. 



Orphan asylums. Foundling asylums. Children's aid societies. 



Insane asylums. 



Homes for the destitute, aged and infirm, for the maimed and deformed, 

 soldiers' homes. 



Emergency and lying-in, convalescent, and other hospitals. (From non- 

 medical standpoint.) 



Treatment of paupers — Almshouses, feeding the poor, lodging houses. 



Emigrant aid societies. 



Treatment of aborigines. 



Prevention of cruelty to animals. 



88. Government and Law. The Art of War. 



880. History ok Admini.^tratiox and Governmental Institutions. 

 Primitive systems. Governments of primitive people. 

 Evolution of monarchial systems. 

 Evolution of representative systems. The town meeting, the hustings, etc., 



in America. 

 Literature, etc. 

 Ma])s .showing graphically the geograpliical distribution of governmental 



systems, ])ast and ))resent. 

 Municipal go\ ernment. 



