vestigations and studies made by the commission for the purpose of determining the causes of damage by and methods of relief from floods in the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio Rivers at Pittsburgh, together with the benefits to navigation, sanitation water supply and water power to be obtained by river regulation. There is also a very full bibliography, the work of the Technology Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

WALTHAM, Mass. Annual reports of the city engineer, superintendent of sewers, and board of survey for the year ending January 31, 1912. 27 p. 8°.

This is the third report which the board of survey has made. This board is in effect a street planning authority, more particularly in relation to private ways. The constitution of a city planning commission is urged by the city engineer.

Includes report of Charles G. Armstrong, consult ing engineer upon the condition of 56 school buildings.

Sewerage

See above "Administration in General" (Boston, Springfield) and below "Statistics" (Berlin, Königsberg).

Sign Boards

See above "Bill Boards."

Social Evil

See below "Statistics" (Buenos Aires).

Statistics

See also above "Administration In General' (Chattanooga).

AACHEN, Germany. Statistische Monatsberichte der Stadt Aachen. Jahrg. 11. no. 1-6. 1912, January-June.

The contents are always the same, viz. 1. Movement of population. 2. Public health. 3. Labor conditions. 4. Care of the poor. 5. Municipal savings bank. 6. Food stuffs, light and power plant. 7. Fire service. 8. Schools, libraries, museums and art galleries. 9. Building operations. 10. Meteorological notes.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands. Statistische Mededeelingen uitgegeven door het Bureau van Statistick der gemeente Amsterdam. no. 36. Openbaar en bijzonder onderwijs te Amsterdam 190810. 1912. iii. 4 p. 4°.

BERLIN, Germany. Monatsberichte des statistischen Amts der Stadt Berlin. Jahrg. 40. no. 1-6. 1912, JanuaryJune. f°.

The contents are always classified uniformly as follows: I. Climate, ground temperature and state of the river Spree. II. Marriages, births, deaths, legitimations, arrivals and departures of strangers, contagious diseases. III. Statistical returns from the various municipal departments, viz. 1. Building permits. 2. Building alterations. 3. Dwellinghouse alterations. 4. Completed buildings. 5. Fire service. 6. Realty transfers. 7. Drinking water supply. 8. Street cleaning. 9. Sewerage. 10. Municipal electric works. 11. Traffic conditions. 12. Transients in hotels and lodging houses and their nativity. 13. Public meetings (the number authorized, policed and broken up, resp.). 14. Public baths. 15. Municipal abattoir. 16. Municipal disinfecting plant. 17. Municipal savings bank. 18. Invalidity and old age insurance. 19. Membership, by trades, of compulsory and voluntary sick insurance. 20. Work house. 21. Homeless. 22. Beggars. 23. Population of city asylums and hospitals. 24.

Care of the poor. 25. Orphans. 26. Dependent and delinquent children. 27. Larger hospitals of Berlin. 28. Care of the insane. 29. Hospitals for contagious diseases. 30. Municipal refuges. 31. Labor conditions. 32. Mass meetings. 33. Occupational and industrial tax. 34. Municipal food inspections.

Wochenberichte des statistischen Ants der Stadt Berlin. Jahrg. 41. 1912. no. 14-29. Week beginning March 31 to July 20.

Vital statistics only.

BOSTON, Mass. Monthly bulletin of the statistics department, October-December, 1911. v. 13, no. 10-12. p. 127168. 4°.

1. Meteorological observations. 2. Movement of population. 3. Cremations. 4. Interments. 5. Buildings permits issued. 6. Movement of institutions population. 7. Immigration statistics. 8. Fires, insurance and losses. 9. Health department. (Bureau of cattle inspection. Buildings ordered vacated or demolished. Bureau of milk inspection. Bureau of disinfection. Bureau of sanitary inspection.) 10. Library. 11. Realty transfers and mortgages. 12. Employment certificates issued by school board. 13. Police department. 14. Public schools. 15. Coal statistics. 16. Public baths. 17. National bank statistics. 18. Commercial statistics, Port of Boston (Number and tonnage of foreign vessels. Value of imports and exports. Number and tonnage of coastwise vessels). 19. Receipts of fish. 20. Statistics relating to flour supply. 21. Museum of Fine Arts. Appendix. Summary tables for 1911. Comparative interest in referenda and election contests, 1890-1911.

BUENOS AIRES, City. Monthly bulletin of municipal statistics. 26th year. no. 1-4. 1912, January-April. fo.

Contents are always the same, viz.: Meteorology and hygiene. Migration of population (1.e., arrivals and departures of vessels and passengers, immigration and emigration, the immigrants classified by nationalities). Hospitals, etc., i.e., movement of population of hospitals, homes, lunatic asylums and night shelters, and registry of prostitutes. Vital statistics. Food and kindred products (1.e., operations at the slaughter houses, superintendence of markets, sanitary inspection of food and animals at points of arrival, municipal chemical laboratory, bakeshops). Prisons. Police statistics. Economy (1.e., sales of landed estates, mortgages, nationality of sellers and buyers of the former, and of mortgagors and mortgagees).

CHEMNITZ, Germany. Monatliche Mitteilungen des statistischen Amts der Stadt Chemnitz. Jahrg. 9, no. 11-12.

1912, January Jahrg. 10, no. 1-3. February-April.

Contents are always the same, viz. 1. Movement of population. 2. Arrivals and departures of transients. 3. Marriages and divorces. 4. Births and deaths. 5. Sickness. 6. Ambulance service. 7. Meteorological observations. 8. Water consumption. 9. Building operations. 10. Chemical laboratory. 11. Meat inspection. 12. Street railway traffic. 13. Municipal savings bank. 14. Municipal pawnshop. 15. Fires. 16. Municipal legal aid bureau. 17. Labor bureau. 18. Sick insurance. 19. Libraries.

CORUÑA, Spain. Estadistica demografico sanitaria. Año 10, num. 103107. 1912, January-May. 4°.

Contents are always the same, viz.: Meteorology. Vital statistics. Hospitals. Disinfecting plant. Sanitary inspection. Vaccination. Consumption of meat. Food inspection. Police. Street Inspection. Fire service. Cemeteries. Prices of food stuffs. Anti-tuberculosis dispensary. Contagious diseases. Maritime sanitation.

These numbers are issued together with the Boletin del ayuntamiento, for which see above under "Administration in General.

DUISBURG, Germany. Statistische Monatsberichte. Jahrg. 5, no. 1-4. 1912, January-April.

Contents are always the same, viz.: 1. Movement of population. 2. Health and public safety (contaglous diseases, city disinfecting plant, hospitals, baths, chemical laboratory, accidents, fires). 3. Poor (numbers assisted and cause of dependence, homeless). 4. Welfare service (legal aid bureau, labor bureau, industrial court, commercial court, sick insurance). 5. Libraries. 6. Freight traffic (railway, harbor, bridge and ferry). 7. Food stuff supply (abattoir and cattle markets, wholesale prices of meat and grains, retail prices of meats, eggs, butter, etc., gas, water and electric light supply. 8. City credit institutions (savings bank, pawnshop). 9. Building permits. 10. Meteorological observations

DÜSSELDORF, Germany. Statistische Monatsberichte der Stadt Düsseldorf (bi-monthly). Jahrg. 11, no. 1-6. 1912, January-March.

The two numbers of each month are designated respectively edition A and B. The contents of the numbers are always the same, viz.: Edition A: 1. Movement of population. 2. Health and public safety (baths, chemical laboratory, accidents, fires). 3. Traffic, part 1 (street railways, railway freight, harbors, city warehouse). 4. River and groundwater gauges. 5. Food stuffs, light and power supply (cattle market and abattoir, retail prices of food stuffs, city gas and water works and electric light

plant). 6. Labor conditions (labor bureau). 7. City credit institutions (savings bank, pawnshop, mortgage bureau). 8. Meteorological observations. 9. Building permits. Edition B: 1. Health and public safety, part 2 (hospitals, maternity homes). 2. Traffic, part 2 (bridge and ferry, narrow gauge passenger and freight). 3. Labor conditions (sick insurance, etc., industrial and commercial court, labor and domestic service registrations, municipal laborers). 4. Light and power supply, part 2 (city gas and water works and electric light plant). 5. Poor (numbers assisted, shelter for the homeless). 6. Schools, libraries and museums. 7. Stocks and bonds

HALLE A. S., Germany. Statistische Monatsberichte. Herausgegeben vom statistischen Amt. Jahrg. 6, no. 3-6. 1912, March-June.

Contents are always the same with the exception of the supplement, which changes with every number, viz.: Meteorological observations. Statistics of population. Movement and migration of population. Industrial statistics (realty transfers, building operations, retail prices, wholesale prices). Social statistics (sick insurance, invalidity and old age insurance, employment bureau, wages of municipal laborers). Administrative statistics (poor, public wards, libraries, legal aid bureau, city infants and children's homes, milk kitchen, commercial and industrial courts, food inspection, shelter for the homeless). Municipal undertakings (cattle market and abattoir, gas works, water works, electricity plant, savings bank, pawnshop, fire service, street railways). The supplements to the various numbers are as follows: No. 3. Transients in Halle. No. 4. Census of unoccupied dwellings, May 1, 1912. No. 5. Effect on the city of the removal of manufacturing plants to the suburbs. No. 6. Social survey of the population of Halle.

JOHANNESBURG, Transvaal. Municipal statistics (monthly). 1912, AprilJune.

Contents are always the same viz.: 1. Deaths with causes, births, burials. 2. Buildings. 3. Electricity and gas supply department. 4. Municipal tramways. 5. Fires. 6. Water. 7. Native wages. Sanitary service. 9. Weights and measures. 10. Livestock market. 11-12. Municipal abattoirs.

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KONIGSBERG i. Pr. Monatsberichte des statistischen Amtes der Stadt. Jahrg. 20. 1912, March-April.

Contents are always the same, viz.: 1. Meteorological observations. 2. Population (comparative. by months, for preceding 9 years). 3. Movement of population. 4. Births (sex, condition and legitimacy). 5. Marriages. 6. Deaths. 7. Migration of population. 8. Reported cases of illness. 9. Hospital. 10. Abattoir. 11. Wholesale prices of meat. 12. Retail prices of principal food stuffs. 13. Municipal water works. 14. Municipal pawnshop. 15. Savings bank. 16. Poorhouse. 17. Sewerage. 18. Municipal electric trams. 19. Libraries. 20. New Industries. 21. Employment bureau. 22. Sick insurance. 23. Reading rooms. 24. Commercial and industrial court. 25. Saloons. 26. Railway freight traffic. 27-29. Harbor traffic.

MILAN, Italy. Bollettino statistico mensile. Anno 28. 1912, March-June.

Sanitary Inspection, vital statistics, abattoirs, price of food stuffs, charities, building construction, fires, trams. Includes also a summary of council minutes.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay. Boletin mensual de Estadistica municipal. Año 10. no. 101-105. 1912, January-May.

MUNICH, Germany. Wochenberichte des statistischen Amtes der Stadt. 1912, no. 15-30. Week beginning April 7July 27.

Contents are always the same, viz.: 1. Deaths by causes. 2. Births and deaths for past 12 weeks. 3. Arrivals in the larger hospitals. 4. Applications and withdrawals from the local sick insurance bureau. 5. Prices of food stuffs. 6. Wholesale prices for fruit and vegetables. 7. Warehouse. 8. Cattle market and abattoir. 9. Prices for cattle. 10. Climatic conditions.

Statistischer Monatsbericht der Stadt. 1912, March-May.

Contents are always the same, viz.: 1. Meteorological observations. 2-5. Movement of population. 6. Marriages. 7-8. Hospitals. 9. Red Cross and other sanitary and rescue services. 10. Burials. 11-13. Cattle market and prices. 14. Warehouse. 15. Milk supply. 16-18. Prices of food stuffs. 19 Food stuff inspection. 20. Municipal baths. 21. Water supply. 22. Municipal gas works. 23. Municipal electric plant. 24. Building inspection. 25. Building construction. 26. Realty transfers. 27 Municipal housing bureau. 28. Coal supply. 29. Stocks and bonds. 30. Municipal savings bank. 31. Municipal pawnshop. 32-33. Sick and accident insurance. 34. Municipal labor bureau. 35. Munkipal arbitration bureau. 36. Industrial court. 37. Commercial court. 38. Public poor relief. 39.

Movement of transients. 40. Sunday and holiday traffic. 41. Fire service. 42. Lighting conductor inspection. 43. Domestic refuse removal. 44. Prices of milk in the larger Bavarian and in some non-Bavarian cities.

Street Railways

See also above "Statistics" (Chemnitz, Halle a. S., Johannesburg, Königsberg, Milan).

CHICAGO, Ill. Passenger subways for Chicago. Synopsis of an address to the Irish Fellowship, March 2, 1912, by Mr. John Ericson, chairman of the Harbor and Subway Commission, Chicago. 16 p. 8°.

- Report of the Harbor and Subway Commission on an independent system of subways. February 1912. 7 p. 4°. FREIBURG 1. Br., Germany. Vorlage des Stadtrats an den Bürgerausschuss vom 1 Juli, 1912, über den ausbau der elektrischen Strassenbahn. 34 p, 2 leaves, 8 maps. 4°.

Streets

See also above "Administration in General" (Boston-cost of repaving; Denver-lampost signs, Springfield) also "Statistics" (Berlin-cleaning; Coruña).

HARTFORD, Conn. Fortieth annual report of the board of Street Commissioners for the year ending March 31, 1912. 60 p. 8°.

Hartford appropriated for the fiscal year mentioned the sum of $452,229 for the work of the street department. The commission cleans, lights and sprinkles the streets as well as repairs them. It also contracts for the removal of garbage and waste, and It maintains a forestry bureau and a nursery. The garbage contract expires June 1, 1913, and it is the intention to have the removal of waste undertaken by the street department. Meanwhile the superintendent proposes thoroughly to study the subject of waste collection and removal, and anticipates that It may be necessary to call in the services of an expert to report on a proper method.

Taxation

See also above "Administration in General" (Berlin-unearned increment tax; Boston-liability of collector), and below "Statistics" (Berlin-occupational and industrial).

ELBERFELD, Germany. Statistisches Amt. Die Gemeindesteuern des Jahres 1911 in den preussischen Grossstädten, den selbstständigen rheinish - westfäl

Water Supply

See above "Administration in General" (Milwaukee, Springfield), and "Fire Service" (Kansas City), also "Statistics" (Berlin Johannesburg, Königsberg, Munich).

BANGOR, Me. Thirty-seventh annual report of the Bangor water board for the municipal year 1911-12. 62 p., 9 folding tables. 8°.

CANADA. Marine and Fisheries Department. Papers relating to the application of the Sanitary District of Chicago for permission, to divert 10,000 cubic feet of water per second from Lake Michigan. Ottawa, 1912. xviii, 270 p. 2 charts. 8°.

At a hearing before the Secretary of War, U. S. A., on March 27, 1912, the Government of Canada submitted briefs and an argument in opposition to the application of the Sanitary District.

FRANCE. Caisse Nationale des Recherches Scientifiques. Recherches sur l'epuration biologique et chimique des eaux d'égout effectuées à l'Institut Pasteur de Lille et à la Station Expérimentale de la Madeleine. Par A. Calmette et E. Rolants. 7° volume. Paris, 1912. 357 p., 1 leaf, 2 plates. 14 graphic charts. 20 illustr. 8°.

Chapters on pollution of the sea by waste waters of N. Y. City; progress of purification in France (Lille and Toulon), in Great Britain (London, Bushey, Frome, Guilford, Leeds, Leigh on Sea, Manchester, Mowbray, Northampton, Prescot), in Germany (Blankenburg, Bochum, Elberfeld, Erfurt, Essen, Halberstadt, Hannover, Cassel, Mühlhausen 1. Th., Quedlinburg, Chemnitz, Düsseldorf, Elbing, Pasen, Rheydt, Wilmersdorf), in America (Eusion, Philadelphia, Reading). The greater part of the

ROCKFORD, Ill. Report on the enlargement and extension of the water supply and distribution system of the city of Rockford. By J. W. Alvord, D. H. Maury and D. W. Mead, water supply commissioners. 1911. 107 (1) p. 8°.

UNITED STATES Hygienic Laboratory. Bulletin 83. Sewage pollution of interstate and international waters. By Allan J. McLaughlin. 1912. 296 p. 91 charts. 39 maps. 8°.

Typhoid fever in American cities, polluted water supplies; sewage disposal; comparative economy of water purification and sewage purification; safe water supplies by filtration or treatment. The sewer systems and water works and the prevalence of typhoid in 73 American cities affected by the waters of the Great Lakes are studied.