Report of the President 



4i 



very little modification has been required. To the thirteen 

 sets previously in use have been added the Public Health Folio 

 which was prepared with the assistance and under the super- 

 vision of C.-E. A. Winslow, Curator of Public Health. The 

 folio consists of a series of fifteen photographic enlargements 

 illustrating the spread of disease and its prevention. Twelve 

 of these folios, each accompanied by an explanatory guide, 

 have been added to the circulating collections, and are much 

 appreciated, especially by the high school teachers. Two 

 additional public health folios are being prepared under the 

 supervision of Professor Winslow, and will be issued in 1913. 

 The distribution of the regular circulating collections to 

 the schools has progressed as usual, and has required the 

 services of two messengers. During the year, 491 schools 

 have been on our list, as follows: 



Manhattan 169 Richmond 21 



Brooklyn 153 Corporate Schools 21 



Queens 48 Catholic Schools 4 



Bronx 49 High Schools and Colleges. 26 



Statistics Relating to the Circulating Collections 



Number of Collec- 

 tions in use 



Number of Schools 

 of Greater New 

 York supplied . . . 



Number of Pupils 

 studying the Col- 

 lections 



1906 



1907 



1908 



1909 



1910 



1911 



435 



450 



484 



435 



39° 



512 



300 



325 



383 



419 



334 



486 



800,000 



725,000 



575,8oi 



922,512 



839,089 



1,253,435 



1912 



537 

 491 



1,275,890 



The total number of pupils reached is 1,275,890, a larger 

 number than in any previous year. 



Fifty collections were rented to the Newark schools and 

 were studied by 35,821 pupils, and in a few cases the collec- 

 tions have been loaned to other outside institutions. 



Upon request of Miss Annie Carroll Moore, the Supervisor 

 of Children's Rooms of the New York Public Libraries, the 

 department has continued to supply various branch libraries 



