Copyright, 1889,

BY IRVING A. WATSON, SEC. AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION

All Rights Reserved

NOTE BY THE SECRETARY.

The Lomb Prize Essay on Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking Adapted to Persons of Moderate and Small Means, which was awarded the first prize of five hundred dollars at the Milwaukee meeting of the American Public Health Association, is now in press and will soon be ready for distribution. The members will be notified by circular when the essay is issued.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING.

THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. By CHARLES N. HEWITT, M. D., Red Wing, Minn.

Address of WELCOME. BY HON. JOHN JOHNSTON, Milwaukee, Wis. .

REMARKS ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASE. BY HENRY B. BAKER, M. D.,

Lansing, Mich.

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SANITATION IN ST. PAUL. By HENRY F. HOYT, M. D., Commissioner of Health

PROPOSED PLAN FOR THE DISPOSITION OF NIGHT-SOIL, Garbage, etc., at St.
PAUL, MINN. By HENRY F. HOYT, Commissioner of Health.

PROBLEMS IN REGARD TO YELLOW-FEVER AND THE PREVENTION OF YELLOW-

FEVER EPIDEMICS. BY JEROME COCHRAN, M. D., State Health Officer of

Alabama

THE OUTBREAK OF YELLOW-FEVER AT JACKSON, MISS., IN SEPTEMBER, 1888.

By WIRT JOHNSTON, M. D., Secretary Mississippi State Board of Health

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON YELLOW-FEVER AND ITS HABITUDES, AS OPPOSED TO

THE FALLACIES AND DANGERS OF PERSONAL QUARANTINE. By A. N.

BELL, A. M., M. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. .

THE ORIGIN AND PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS. By D. E. SALMON, D. V. M.,

Chief of Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, Washington,

D. C.

MEMORANDA OF VISITS TO THE QUARANTINE STATIONS OF THE MIDDLE At-

LANTIC COAST, MADE DURING THE SUMMER OF 1888. By BENJAMin Lee,

M. D., PH. D., Secretary of the State Board of Health of Pennsylvania

THE LOUISIANA QUARANTINE SYSTEM AND ITS CONTEMPLATED IMPROVEMENT.
By LUCIEN F. SALOMON, M. D., Secretary Louisiana State Board of Health

THE CANADIAN SYSTEM OF MARITIME SANITATION. BY FREDERICK MONTI-

ZAMBERT, M. D., Edin., F. R. C. S., D. C. L., Medical Superintendent of Quar-

antine

HISTORY OF QUARANTINE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS FROM 1878 to 1888. By

ROBERT RUTHERFORD, M. D., State Health Officer, Houston, Texas

THE BOSTON QUARANTINE. By SAMUEL H. DURGIN, M. D., President of the

Boston Board of Health

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YELLOW-FEVER PANICS AND USELESS QUARANTINES-LIMITATION BY TEMPER-

ATURE AND ALTITUDE. BY JOHN H. RAUCH, M. D., Secretary Illinois State

Board of Health

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GARBAGE FURNACES AND THE DESTRUCTION OF ORGANIC MATTER BY FIRE.

By S. S. KILVINGTON, M. D., President Board of Health, Minneapolis, Minn.. 156

SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE Origin and SOURCES OF PATHOGENIC BACTERIA.

By THEOBOLD SMITH, M. D., of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department

of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AS RESPECTS DISEASE PREVALENCE. BY PROF.

W. W. PAYNE, Director of the Observatory, Northfield, Minn..

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"NEW ORLEANS TO BE SAVED MUST BE DRAINED AND CLEANED"

THE FLUSHING TUNNEL AT MILWAUKEE. BY GEORGE H. BENZENBERG, City

Engineer, Milwaukee, Wis. .

ON PULLMAN, ILLINOIS. By Mr. DUANE DOTY

PROCEEDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

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REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS IN RELATION TO COMMISSIONER OF

HEALTH

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON STATE BOARDS OF HEALTH

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON POLLUTION OF WATER-SUPPLIES

REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO EXAMINE THE SOUTHSIDE WATER-SUPPLY

REPORT OF COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER And Report uPON SUCH SANITARY AND

MEDICAL SERVICES ON BOARD EMIGRANT PASSENGER VESSELS AS MAY BE

SUBJECT TO CONGRESS

REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE TRANSPORTATION OF DEAD

BODIES

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON THE LOMB PRIZES

REPORT OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NECROLOGY

REPORT OF Treasurer

CONSTITUTION OF THE ASSOCIATION

BY-LAWS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES

LIST OF MEMBERS ELECTED AT MILWAUKEE

REVISED LIST OF MEMBERS

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