Reviews and Notices

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Vital Statistics: Medizinal-statistiche Mittheilungen aus dem kaiserlichen Gesund-heitsamte. Berlin, 1897. Reviewed by H. J. Gerling. Vital Statistics: Report Relating to the Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in the Province of Ontario for 1896. Toronto, 1897, pp. 36, ccxviii. Vital Statistics: Twenty-eighth Annual Report Relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Michigan for the Year 1894. Lansing, 1897. Pp. 338, 33. Vital Statistics: Forty-third Report Relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages and Deaths, and of Divorce in Rhode Island for 1895. Prepared by Gardner P. Swarts, M.D., Providence, R. I. 1897. Pp. vi, 291. Vital Statistics: Sixth Biennial Report of the North Carolina Board of Health, 1895–96. Winston, 1897. Pp. 212. Vital Statistics: This subject is also dealt with in the Tulane University publications, No.2, on the Social and Physical Conditions of Negroes in Cities. Tulane, 1897, pp. 72, 14. Physical and Mental Condition of School Children in London: Report on the scientific study of the mental and physical condition of childhood. With particular reference to children of defective constitution; and with recommendation as to education and training. London: Published by the Committee, Parker Museum, Margaret Street, W., 1895. Pp. 117. Physical and Mental Condition of School Children in Switzerland: Résultats du dénombrement des enfants faibles d'esprit en âge de fréquenter l'école, y compris ceux qui sont atteints d'infirmités physiques ou, qui sont négligés et moralement abandonnés, enquête qui a eu lieu en Suisse au mois de mars, 1897. Part I. Berne, 1897. Pp. xxx, 91. German Income Tax Statistics: Die mittleren Klassen der Einkomminsteuer in einigen deutschen Grosstädten in der Jahren 1880–1895. By Dr. Wilhelm Böhmert. In Jahrbuch für Gesetzgebung, Verwaltung und Volkswirtschaft. Leipzig, 1896. Reviewed by H. D. Hunt. Municipal Electric Lighting: Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Gas and Electric Light Commissioners of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, June, 1897. Boston, 1897. Pp. 182, clvi. Notes: Statistical Report of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope for the year 1896. Cape Town, May, 1897. Pp. xv, 359. Notes: Report of the Results of a Census of the Colony of New Zealand, taken for the night of the 12th of July, 1896. Wellington, New Zealand, 1897. Pp, 163. Notes: Mitteilungen des Bernischen statistischen Bureaus. Year 1897, No. 2. Berne, 1897. Pp. 73–193. Notes: Fourth Annual Report of Changes in Wages and Hours of Labor in the United Kingdom for 1896. London, 1897. Pp. lxxxi, 273. Notes: Synoptical Index of the Reports of the Statistician. United States Department of Agriculture, 1893–1894. By George F. Thompson. Washington, 1897. Pp. 258. Notes: The Manual of American Water Works. 1897. Edited by M. N. Baker, Associate Editor of Engineering News. Engineering News Publishing Co., New York, 1897. Pp. 611, cxiv Insanity in England.