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wanted  more  could  obtain  same  at  cost.  Manuel  Zamora,  professor 
in  the  School  of  Pharmacy  at  Manila,  was  elected  to  associate 
membership. 
C.  A.  Weidemann,  M.D., 
Recording  Secretary. 
APRIL  PHARMACEUTICAL  MEETING. 
The  stated  pharmaceutical  meeting  of  the  Philadelphia  College 
of  Pharmacy  was  held  Tuesday,  April  20,  at  3  o'clock,  with  Warren 
H.  Poley,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  in  the  chair. 
William  G.  Toplis,  a  pharmacist  of  Germantown,  who  was 
formerly  employed  by  the  Bureau  of  Filtration  of  Philadelphia,  read 
a  paper  on  "  The  Progress  in  the  Purification  of  the  Drinking  Water 
in  Philadelphia"  (see  page  220).  After  presenting  the  paper  Mr. 
Toplis  exhibited  a  chart  showing  the  marked  decrease  in  the  number 
of  typhoid  cases  in  the  Thirty-third  Ward  since  it  began  to  be  sup- 
plied with  filtered  water,  on  July  15,  1907,  as  compared  with  the 
number  of  cases  during  the  corresponding  weeks  in  1906  and  1907. 
The  chart  showed  that  at  no  time  since  this  Ward  began  to  be  sup- 
plied with  filtered  water  did  the  typhoid  cases  exceed  four  in  number. 
Mr.  Smith,  a  chemist  employed  at  the  Belmont  Filter,  spoke  of 
the  methods  used  in  determining  the  purity  of  the  water,  and  stated 
that  the  raw  water  is  examined  once  a  day,  and  that  daily  bac- 
teriological examinations  and  weekly  chemical  examinations  of  the 
filtered  water  are  made.  Mr.  Smith  also  stated  that  there  is  con- 
siderable difference  in  the  working  of  the  preliminary  filters  owing 
to  the  character  of  the  sediment  in  the  water  from  the  different 
sources,  those  for  the  Delaware  water  working  better  on  account  of 
the  coarseness  of  the  sediment.  Professor  Kraemer  stated  that 
when  the  College  Course  in  Bacteriology  was  organized  some  ten 
years  ago  the  source  of  the  chromogenic  and  intestinal  bacteria  as 
well  as  other  micro-organisms  which  were  studied  was  the  tap  water, 
and  that  the  number  was  frequently  very  large,  whereas  now  the 
whole  number  of  organisms  is  frequently  as  low  as  25  per  c.c.  Mr. 
Toplis  stated  that  these  figures  corroborated  those  given  by  the  city 
bacteriologists. 
George  M.  Beringer  read  a  paper  on  (i  Barbados  Aloes,  a  Mis- 
nomer," which  he  said  had  been  prepared  by  Messrs.  Lehn  &  Fink 
for  publication  in  their  "  Notes  on  New  Remedies,"  and  that  an 
advance  copy  had  been  sent  to  him  as  chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
