4.06 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. 
distribution, the Director-General of the Army Medical Department has 
interested himself greatly in the work of the Committee, and, being 
unable to attend himself, deputed Colonel Simpson to act for him. The 
Director-General of the Navy has deputed Inspector-General May, who 
has been a constant attendant at the meetings and given valuable help, 
and has arranged that the forms drawn up by the Committee shall be 
distributed to medical officers of the Navy all over the world. 
The amount of work entailed was more than could be accomplished by 
the Honorary Secretaries, and it was found necessary to employ a paid 
Secretary at a rate of 25/. a year. 
The whole of the grant of 55/. has been expended, and the Committee 
ask that a further grant of 100/. be placed at their disposal for the purpose 
of sending out the forms which have been drawn up dealing with the 
material that is being collected. 
AppENDIxX.—Monthly Return of Diseases. 
The form itself is too large to reproduce. It provides for the following 
particulars :— 
1. Place and period of observation. 
2. The total population (male and female separately) among whom 
the attacks and deaths occurred which are recorded in the form. 
3. The number of fresh cases coming under observation during the 
period and the deaths among them. 
4. The age grouping of the attacks or deaths (males and females 
separately) according to the following system: Under 1 year; from 1 to 
25, by five-yearly periods ; from 25 to 75, by ten-yearly periods. This 
allows of rearrangement to suit the grouping in the corresponding census. 
5. The list of diseases (printed below) is prepared from the 1906 edition 
of the ‘Nomenclature of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons,’ 
and space is left to admit of the insertion (in manuscript) of any diseases 
not included in the printed list. 
General Diseases. 25 Malaria—(a) Tertian; (d) Quartan; 
(c) Aestivo-autumnal; (d) Chronic. 
3. Blackwater Fever. | —Syn.: Malarial cachexia. 
4, Beri Beri. 26. Measles. 
5, Cerebo-spinal fever.—Syn.: Epidemic | 27, Malta fever.—Syn.: Mediterranean 
Cerebo-spinal meningitis. fever. 
6. Chicken-pox. 28. Mumps. 
7. Cholera. | 31. Plague. 
9. Dengue. | 32. Pneumonia.—Var.: Epidemic pneu- 
10. Diphtheria. ' monia. 
11. Dysentery—(a) Ameebic; ;(2) Bacil- | 34, Pyrexia—of uncertain origin. 
lary. | 35. Rabies. 
12. Infective endocarditis. | 36. Relapsing fever. 
13. Enteric fever.—Syn.: Typhoid fever. | 37. Rheumatic fever—Syn.: Acute or 
14. Enteritis infective—Syn.: Epidemic sub-acute rheumatism. 
diarrheea. 38. Scarlet fever. 
15. Erysipelas. 40. Sleeping sickness. 
16. Gangrene—acute infective. 41. Small-pox. 
18. German measles. 42. Syphilis. 
21. Influenza. 43. Tetanus. 
22. Kala azar. 44, Tuberculosis (specify organs primarily 
23. Leprosy —(a@) Nodular; (4) Anzs- affected). 
thetic. 46. Typhus. 
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