HYGIENIC LABORATORY BULLETINS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH 
AND MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE. 
The Hygienic Laboratory was established in New York, at the Marine Hospital on 
Staten Island, August, 1887. It was transferred to Washington, with quarters in the 
Butler Building, June 11, 1891, and a new laboratory building, located in Washington, 
was authorized by act of Congress, March 3, 1901. 
The following bulletins [Bulls. Nos. 1-7, 1900 to 1902, Hvg. Lab., L T . S. Mar.-Hosp. 
Serv., Wash.] have been issued: 
*No. 1. — Preliminary note on the viability of the Bacillus pestis. By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 2.— Formalin disinfection of baggage without apparatus. By M. J. Rosenau. 
*No. 3. — Sulphur dioxid as a germicidal agent. By H. I). Geddings. 
*No. 4. — Viability of the Bacillus pestis. By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 5. — An investigation of a pathogenic microbe ( B . typhi murium Danyz) applied 
to the destruction of rats. By M. J. Rosenau. 
*No. 6. — Disinfection against mosquitoes with formaldehyde and sulphur dioxid. 
By M. J. Rosenau. 
No. 7. — Laboratory technique: Ring test for indol, by S. B. Grubbs and Edward 
Francis; Collodium sacs, by S. B. Grubbs and Edward Francis; Microphotography 
with simple apparatus, by H. B. Parker. 
By act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, the name of the “United States Marine- 
Hospital Service” was changed to the “Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of 
the United States/'’ and three new divisions were added to the Hygienic Laboratory. 
Since the change of name of the Service the bulletins of the Hygienic Laboratory 
have been continued in the same numerical order, as follows: 
*No. 8. — Laboratory course in pathology and bacteriology. By M. J. Rosenau 
(Revised edition, March, 1904.) 
*No. 9. — Presence of tetanus in commercial gelatin. By John F. Anderson. 
No. 10. — Report upon the prevalence and geographic distribution of hookworm dis- 
ease (uncinariasis or anchylostomiasis) in the United States. By C’h. Wardell Stiles. 
*No. 11. — An experimental investigation of Trypanosoma leuisi. By Edward 
Francis. 
*No. 12. — The bacteriological impurities of vaccine virus; an experimental study. 
By M. J. Rosenau. 
*No. 13. — A statistical study of the intestinal parasites of 500 white male patients at 
the United States Government Hospital for the Insane; by Philip E. Garrison, Bray- 
ton H. Ransom, and Earle C. Stevenson. A parasitic roundworm ( Agamomennis 
culicis n. g., n. sp.) in American mosquitoes ( Culex sollicitans) ; by Ch. Warded Stiles. 
The type species of the cestode genus Ilymenolepis; by Ch. Warded Stiles. 
No. 14. — Spotted fever (tick fever) of the Rocky Mountains: a new disease. By 
John F. Anderson. 
No. 15. — Inefficiency of ferrous sulphate as an antiseptic and germicide. By Allan 
J. McLaughlin. 
*No. 16. — The antiseptic and germicidal properties of glycerin. By M. J. Rosenau. 
"No. 17. — Illustrated key to the trematode parasites of man. By Ch. Warded Stiles. 
*No. 18. — An account of the tapeworms of the genus Hymenolepis parasitic in man, 
including reports of several new cases of the dwarf tapeworm ( TI . nana ) in the United 
States. By Bray ton H. Ransom. 
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