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laboratories and facilities and with its own 

 staff of teachers giving their entire time to the 

 work of teaching and investigating. 



There will be here laboratories of sanitary 

 chemistry, of physiology as applied to hygiene 

 — a most-important although much-neglected 

 subject — of bacteriology and protozoology, and 

 provision for epidemiology, industrial hygiene, 

 vital statistics, a museum, library, etc. Addi- 

 tional facilities for instruction and research 

 will be supplied by the medical and the engi- 

 neering schools, the hospital, especially the 

 newly opened wards for infectious diseases of 

 the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children, 

 and other departments of the university, which 

 will be aided in undertaking the new work. 



It is anticipated that mutually helpful rela- 

 tions will be established with our municipal 

 and state departments of health, assurance of 

 which has been given by our public-spirited 

 mayor and other authorities, and with the fed- 

 eral public health service, whereby opportu- 

 nities will be afforded for field work and other 

 practical experience in various branches of 

 public-health work. 



Especially advantageous will be the relations 

 with the International Health Commission of 

 the Eockefeller Foundation, which is engaged 

 in the study and control not only of hook- 

 worm, but also of malaria, yellow fever and 

 other tropical diseases, which will receive due 

 attention in the work of the institute. 



It is intended that the school shall furnish 

 opportunities of a high order for the cultiva- 

 tion of the various sciences which find applica- 

 tion in hygiene, sanitation and preventive 

 medicine, and for the training of medical stu- 

 dents, engineers, chemists, biologists and others 

 properly prepared who wish to be grounded in 

 the principles of these subjects, and above all 

 for the training of those who desire to fit them- 

 selves for careers in public-health work in its 

 various branches — that most attractive profes- 

 sion for those qualified to practise it. The 

 most urgent need at the present time is pro- 

 vision for the scientific training of prospective 

 health officials and for supplementary and ad- 

 vanced courses for those already engaged in 

 sanitary work. Suitable recognition of the 



satisfactory completion of work in the school 

 will be given by the bestowal of certificates 

 and degrees. 



Directions in which it may be expected that 

 the usefulness of the school of hygiene and 

 public health will be extended are cooperative 

 efforts with our training school for nurses and 

 other agencies in the training of public-health 

 nurses, who have become such important agents 

 in voluntary and public-health work, and in 

 the education of the public by exhibits, lectures 

 and other means to a better application and 

 understanding of the significance and needs of 

 public and personal hygiene. 



The dreams which many of us in the med- 

 ical faculty have long cherished are now about 

 to be realized. The opportunity which this 

 great benefaction places in the hands of the 

 Johns Hopkins University is most inspiring. 

 It is comparable to that presented to the uni- 

 versity at its beginning for the promotion of 

 higher education, and later to the medical 

 school and the hospital for advancement of the 

 standards and methods of medical education. 

 The responsibilities devolving upon the uni- 

 versity in this new undertaking, entrusted to it 

 with such high hopes, are commensurate with 

 the splendid opportunities. May we not con- 

 fidently anticipate that in this new field the 

 results will be in keeping with the achieve- 

 ments of the university in the other fields it 

 has cultivated so successfully? 



THE NATIONAL EXPOSITION OF 

 CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES 



Eecently the managers of the Second Na- 

 tional Exposition of Chemical Industries, at 

 the Grand Central Palace, New York, during 

 the week of September 25, had to arrange the 

 second floor for exhibits, and now they report 

 that there are but a few spaces still remaining 

 on that floor. 



To meet the requirements of the societies 

 which will hold meetings at the Grand Central 

 Palace the auditorium has had to be increased 

 in size, so that now it will comfortably seat 

 500 persons. An automatic motion-picture 

 machine of the latest design will be used to 

 display the motion pictures, many of which 



