228 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY GENERAL. 



ResumS of some of the recent studies of the United States Public Health 



Service relating to the causation and to a method of preventing pellagra, 



by Joseph Goldberger. 

 Review of the present yellow-fever situation, by Aristides Agramonte. 

 Seroterapia antipestosa intensiva, by Jose Moreno. 

 The epidemic of tiphus exanthematicus in the Balkans and in the prison 



camps of Europe, by Bert W. Caldwell. 

 The known and the unknown with regard to the etiology and prevention of 



beri-beri, by Edward B. Vedder. 

 The mortality from cancer in the Western Hemisphere, by Frederick L. 



Hoffman. 

 The parasitic diseases in the American tropical countries and their effect 



upon the progress of civilization among the Latin American people, by 



Ddmaso Rivas. 

 The relation of modes of infection to the control of bacterial diseases in Pan 



America, by M. J. Rosenau. 



SUBSECTION 2. 



VITAL STATISTICS. 



Cinco anos de demografia uruguxiya, by Joaquin de Salterain. 

 Cooperation by the Bureau of the Census with State authorities in securing 



the enactment of adequate laws for the registration of births and deaths, 



by Richard C. Lappin. 

 Desarrollo de la estadistica demogrdfica en la isla de Cuba, by Jorge Le-Roy 



y Cassd. 

 Infant mortality statistics, by Lewis Meriam. 

 Informs sobre el desarrollo de la estadistica demogrdfica en la Reptiblica de 



El Salvador, by Pedro S. Fonseca. 

 Informes referentes a la morbosidad infccto-contagiosa, by Julio Etchepare. 

 La tuberculosis en el Uruguay, by Joaquin de Salterain. 

 Morbosidad y morlalidad infecto-contagiosa en el Uruguay, by Alfredo 



Vidal y Fuentes. 

 The accuracy and completeness of tompiled vital statistics in the United. 



' States, by John S. Fulton. 

 The Federal registration service of the United States: Its development, 



problems, and defects, by Cressy L. Wilbur. 

 The incidence of the different causes of mortality in Providence for fifty - 



five years, 1856-jgio, by Charles V. Chapin. 

 The nature and significance of the changes in the birth and death rates in 



recent years, by Walter F. Willcox. 



