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ceptions of public health oducation into new and wider fields as Director 

 of the Publif Health Aetivities of the League of Red Cross Societies. This 

 is an organization created on the initiative of Mr. Davison to assist in 

 the organization of the National Red Cross Societies throughout Europe 

 and to develo]) through them effective public health programs in the 

 various countries. There are now twenty-nine national Red Cross 

 societies in the League, and its financial sujJiwrt for the next three years 

 is insured V)y a gift of two and a half million dollars made by the Ameri- 

 can Red Cro.ss. Dr. Richard P. Strong of Harvard was in charge of the 

 public health work up to last spring, and during the summer months 

 Dr. Herman Biggs was in Geneva as Acting Director. 



Photographs owned by the Ciovernment, i)ortraying the customs and 

 habits of the non-Christian tribes of the Philippine Islands, are to be 

 sold hereafter only to anthropologists and ethnologists at the discre- 

 tion of the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The limita- 

 tion of the sale of such pictures has been decided upon to prevent the 

 scattering over the United States of photographs which may l)e taken as 

 portraying the usual mode of life among the Filipinos, causing a wrong 

 impression of the state of ])rogress and culture among the inhtibitantsof 

 the country. 



An attempted robbery of the Museum took place early in the evening 

 of December 28th. The object of the attempt was a collection of bills, 

 of which S3. 361. 00 were "fake," and S4.00 were "real money.'' The 

 bills were part of a Public Health Hall exhibit which indicated the 

 annual cost per thousand people for. purifying water and the annual 

 money loss per thousand people from diseases due to the use of impure 

 water. The would-l)e robber, who had taken off his shoes in an evident 

 desire to avoid any unseemly noise, had removed from the wall the case' 

 containing the bills and was in the act of jirying it open when he was dis- 

 covered l)y one of the night watchmen, who fired his revolver l^ut did 

 not wound the man. The exhil^ition case and the shoes were hastily 

 abandoned, and the man made his escape down the stairs and out of the 

 window near the seismograph. While, of course, we do not condone the 

 man's wicked attempt on our exhibition money, we cannot help feeling 

 sorrv at the severitv of his retribution — ^tho loss of his shoes. 



