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and house officer. Dr. J. M. Batchelor has been elected House Surgeon with Drs. J. A. Danna and S. W. Stafford as assistants. DR. H. E. MENAGE has been appointed Pension Examiner in this district.

DR. ALLEN J. SMITH, of the Galvetson (Univ. of Texas), Medical School, was recently elected professor on Pathology in the University of Pennsylvania.

DIED.-Dr. Robert E. Gatlin, one of the leading phycisians of Summit, Miss., died July 1, after a long illness aged forty-one years. Dr. Gatlin was president of Summit's Board of Health.

PERSONAL.-Dr. C. D. Simmons, formerly of Dutchtown, La., will settle in Baton Rouge, La., on his return from New York, where he is doing post-graduate work.

IT WILL BE INTERESTING for practitioners to learn that they need not send their electric apparatus away when in need of repairs. Mr. S. J. Stewart, of this city, carries electro-therapeutic apparatus in stock and makes a specialty of repairing them.

PERSONAL.-Dr. S. M. D. Clark has been very much annoyed by the ill-placed enthusiasm of a grateful patient who had his own picture and account of his case published in a daily paper. Need'less to say that the doctor had no knowledge of the patient's intention and regrets the occurrence.

DR. C. J. MILLER, of New Orleans, was elected Professor on Operative Gynecology on the Cadaver at the annual meeting of the New Orleans Polyclinic.

Publications Received.

Tuberculosis, by Norman Bridge, M. D.-W. B. Saunders & Co., Philadelphia, New York and London, 1903.

A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence, Insanity and Toxicology, by Henry C. Chapman, M. D.-W. B. Saunders & Co., Philadelphia, New York and London, 1903.

Practical Points in Nursing, by Emily A. M. Stoney.-W. B. Saunders & Co., Philadelphia, New York and London, 1903.

A Text-book of Legal Medicine and Toxicology, Edited by Frederick Peterson, M. D., and Walter S. Haines, M. D.-Volume I, W. B. Saunders & Co., Philadelphia, New York and London, 1903. 29th Annual Report Touro Infirmary and Hebrew Benevolent Association, New Orleans, 1903.

Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the State of New Jersey, 1902.

A Manual of Diseases of the Eye, by Clarence A. Veasey, M. D.Lea Bros. & Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1903.

The Diagnosis of Diseases of Women, by Palmer Finlay, M. D.Lea Bros. & Co., Philadelphia, New York, 1903.

First Announcement Preparatory Course for Nurses Training Schools-Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, 1903-04.

The Practical Medicine Series of Year Books, Edited by Gustavus P. Head, M. D.-Volume V, Obstetrics, Edited by Reuben Peterson, M. D.-The Year Book Publishers, Chicago, 1903. Bulletin of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1903. The Duties of the Individual and the Government in the Combat of Tuberculosis, by S. A. Knopf, M. D., New York.

Bacteriology, by Fred C. Zapffe, M. D.-Edited by Bern B. Gallaudet, M. D.-Lea Bros. & Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1903. Transactions of the American Roentgen Ray Society-Third Annual Meeting, Chicago, December, 1902.

International Clinics, Edited by A. O. J. Kelly, M. D., Philadelphia- Vol. I. Thirteenth Series, 1903.-J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia.

J. B. Lippincott Company's Catalogue of Medical and Surgical Publications, Philadelphia and London.

A System of Physiologic Therapeutics, Volume X., Edited by Solomon Solis Cohen, M. D.-P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1903.

The Buckeye Doctor, by William W. Pennel, M. D.-The Grafton Press, New York, 1903.

The Refraction and Motility of the Eye, by William Norwood Suter, M. D.-Lea Bros & Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1903.

Report upon the Prevalence and Geographic Distribution of Hookworm Disease, in the United States, by Ch. Wardell Stiles, Ph. D.-Government Priting Office, Washington, D. C., 1903.

E. Merck's Annual Reports, Volume XVI, 1902.-Darmstadt, May, 1903.

Report of Streams Examination-Chemic and BacteriologicSanitary district of Chicago-Made under Direction of Arthur R. Reynolds, M. D., Commissioner of Health, Chicago, December, 1902.

Health Report of the Republic of Cuba, by Carlos J. Finlay, M. D., Chief Sanitary Officer.

A Treatise on the Care of the Expectant Mother During Pregnancy and Childbirth, by W. Lewis Howe, M. D. -F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia, 1903.

Surgical Asepsis, by Henry B. Palmer, M. D.-F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia, 1903.

A Text-Book of Chemistry, by Edward Curtis Hill, M. D.-F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia, 1903.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, by Havelock Ellis-F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia, 1903.

The Practical Application of the Roentgen Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis, by William Allen Pusey, M. D., and Eugene Wilson Caldwell, B. S.-W. B. Saunders & Co., Philadelphia, New York, London, 1903.

Reprints.

Typhoid Fever in an Infant Nine Months Old; Recovery-Sun PlayRooms on City Roofs, by W. P. Northrup, M. D.

Regulations for the Sale of Viruses, Serums, Toxins, and Analogous Products in the District of Columbia, Etc. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1903.

Manual of International Classification of Death, Etc.-United States Census Office, Washington, 1903.

A Preliminary Note on the Occurrence of Taenia Nana in Texas, with Specimens, John T. Moore, M. D.

Perineal Prostatectomy.. A Special Method, by Parker Syms, M. D. The Bacteriological Impurities of Vaccine Virus, by M. J. Rosenau. Quarantine Laws and Regulations of the United States.-Government Printing Office, Washington, 1903.

Surgery of the Heart, by Benjamin Merrill Ricketts, M. D., Cincinnati. The Treatment of Chronic Diarrhea, by Charles D. Aaron, M. D.

A Case of Metastatic Adrenal Tumors in the Left Midfrontal and Ascending Frontal Convolutions, by Walter Channing, M. D., and Wallace M. Knowlton, M. D.

The Therapeutic Value of Roentgen Ray in the Treatment of Pseudolecaemia-Iodized Catgut, by Nicholas Senn, M. D.

Reflex Neuroses, by William Cheatham, M. D.

MORTUARY REPORT OF NEW ORLEANS.

(Computed from the Monthly Report of the Board of Health of the City of New Orleans.) FOR JUNE, 1903.

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Still-born Children-White, 18; colored, 24; total, 42.
Population of City (estimated)-White, 227,000; colored, 83,000;

total, 310,000.

Death Rate per 1000 per annum for Month-White 17.79; colored, 28.77; total, 20.75.

METEOROLOGIC SUMMARY. (U.S. Weather Bureau.)

Mean atmospheric pressure

Mean temperature

Total precipitation ...

Prevailing direction of wind, southwest.

29.92

77. 3.61 inches.

New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal.

VOL. LVI.

SEPTEMBER, 1903.

No. 3.

Original Articles.

[No paper published or to be published in any other medical journal will be accepted for this department. All papers must be in the hands of the Editors on the tenth day of the month preceding that in which they are expected to appear. A complimentary edition of one hundred reprints of his article will be furnished each contributor should he so desire. Covers for same, or any number of reprints may be had at reasonable rates if a WRITTEN Order for the same accompany the paper.]

History of Maritime Quarantine in Louisiana Against Yellow Fever.*

By QUITMAN KOнNKE, M. D., Chairman Board of Health and Health Officer of the City of New Orleans.

History, I take it, is not a mere collection of recorded incidents, but an arrangement of them with proper regard to their significance and value.

Interpretation is the essence of history; an explanatory note being at times more important than the recorded fact, while the judicious omission of unimportant detail may avoid distracting attention from the main object which (in this instance at least) is, to present a picture of the conditions, circumstances and influences that led up to and determined transpiring events.

This paper is intended to show how the presently-existing

Read before the Louisiana State Medical Society, April 28-30, 1903.

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