SCIENCE 



New Seeies 

 Vol. L, No. 1288 



Friday, September 5, 1919 



Single Copies, 16 Crs. 

 Annual Subsceiption, S6.M 



Overton and Denno's 

 The Health Officer 



This book contains the information the average health officer must have in order to 

 discharge his duties. It tells him what to do, how to do it, and why he should do it. It 

 describes the various activities in which a health officer engages; his relations to boards 

 of health, physicians, social agencies, and the public; his qualifications and methods of 

 work; the various diseases and unsanitary conditions with which he deals, and the scien- 

 tific principles upon which preventive medicine is founded. There are chapters on organ- 

 ization and powers of a health department, the health officer himself, local boards, relation 

 of the public and of the physician to the health officer, rural work, records and reports, 

 public health nursing, bacteriology, immunity, epidemiology, communicable diseases, milk, 

 food sanitation, sanitary engineering, disposal of wastes, water supply, ventilation, indus- 

 trial hygiene, camp sanitation, child hygiene, life extension. 



Octavo of 504 pages, illustrated. By Frank Overton, M.D., D.P.H.. Sanitary Supervisor, New York State 

 Department of Health; and WlLL.tRD J. Denno. M.D., D.P.H., Medical Director. Standard Oil Company. 



Cloth, $4.50 net. 



Whiting's Bandaging 



l2mo of 151 pages, with 117 illustrations. 

 By A. D. Whiting, M.D., Instructor in 

 Surgery at the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania. Cloth, $1.50 net. 



This work takes up each bandage in detail, 

 telling you and showing you how to apply the 



Catlin's Hospital Social Service 



i2mo of 115 pages, illustrated. By Lucy 

 Cornelia Catlin, R.N.,''Director Social 

 Service Work, Youngstown, Ohio. Cloth, 

 I1.25 net. 



It completes the hospital's service to Jts out- 

 patients. 



Stokes' Third Great Plague 



i2mo of 204 pages, illustrated. By John 

 H. Stokes, M.D., Head of Section on 

 Dermatology and Syphilology, The Mayo 

 Clinic. Cloth, $2.00 net. 



A timely book for soldier, sailor, social econo- 

 mist, physician, and all those interested in wel 

 fare work. Everyday discussion of syphilis. 



Bergey's Hygiene 



Octavo of 543 pages, illustrated. By D. 

 H. Bergey, M.D., Assistant Professor of 

 Hygiene and Bacteriology, University of 

 Pennsylvania. Sixth Edition. Cloth, 

 $3.50 net. 



A standard work covering every division of 

 hygiene and sanitation, with much collateral 

 information. 



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