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retics, a few miscellaneous drugs, and finally a few experiments on acids, 

 alkalies, and some of the heavy metals. 



The second part of the book contains two chapters, one on shop work 

 and one on photography. These are chiefly of interest to the instructor, 

 and it is advised that these be read in connection with the general prepa- 

 ration of apparatus, equipment, etc., for the course in pharmacology, 

 [p. 25.] 



A list of dealers in apparatus, tools, supplies, equipment, etc., 

 and an index complete the volume. 



The book is printed from large, clear type, and the experiment 

 captions are distinguished by the use of heavy-faced type. The 

 binding is such that the book remains open at any desired page 

 without the necessity of breaking its back or using weights. 



R. C. McG. 



Commonwealth of Australia. | Quarantine Service, j Service Publication 

 No. 3. | The History of Small-pox in Australia, 1788-1908 | Compiled 

 from various sources by | J. H. L. Cumpston, M. D., D. P. H., Di- 

 rector of Quarantine for the | Commonwealth of Australia. | Issued 

 under the authority of the | Hon. the Minister for Trade and Cus- 

 toms | 1914. | By authority: | Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 

 Melbourne. | Paper, pp. 1-182. 



Australia has indeed been fortunate in that all available data 

 with regard to the visitations of smallpox' over the entire con- 

 tinent and during more than a century can be presented with 

 such a wealth of detail within the limits of one small volume 

 and that the entire toll of life has been only a little over 500. 

 Its good fortune is the more notable in that its relative freedom 

 from the disease is not due to vaccination, the number of vac- 

 cinations officially recorded being only a little over 30 per cent 

 of the births. 



Vaccination acts were passed in South Australia in 1853, in 

 Victoria and Tasmania in 1854, and in Western Australia in 

 1861, requiring the vaccination of infants within six or twelve 

 months of birth. During most of the decade from 1890 to 1899 

 the Tasmania Act is stated to have been a dead letter, no funds 

 having been provided for its enforcement in certain years, 

 while in Western Australia it appears that the Act was never 

 thoroughly enforced, and an amendment for the relief of con- 

 scientious objectors was added in 1911. South Australia had 

 already taken similar action in 1901. It appears that compul- 

 sory vaccination has never been required in New South Wales 

 and Queensland, though public vaccinators were appointed, and 

 a Vaccine Institute was long maintained at Sydney. The main 



