cago and Providence. From whooping-cough, 16 in New York, four in Cincinnati, three in Boston, two in Brooklyn and Pittsburgh, one in St. Louis, District of Columbia, and Milwaukee. From typhoid fever, six in Philadelphia, four in New York and Chicago, three in Baltimore, two in St. Louis and Pittsburgh, one in Brooklyn, Boston, Cincinnati, Providence, and Charleston. From erysipelas, seven in New York, four in Brooklyn, two in Chicago and Cincinnati, one in Baltimore, Boston, District of Columbia, and Pittsburgh. From cerebrospinal meningitis, one in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, and Lowell. From measles, two in Brooklyn and Pittsburgh, one in New York. From trismus nascentium, one in Charleston and District of Columbia. From typhoid malarial fever, one in District of Columbia. The death-rate in District of Columbia was 21.07 among the whites, and 43.33 for the colored population. Nashville remains quite free from "zymotic" diseases, but pneumonia is very prevalent. In Cleveland pulmonary diseases, especially pneumonia, prevail; the severe epidemic of diphtheria has apparently declined. In Louisville, New Orleans, and throughout California, pneumonia has been very wide-spread. In Buffalo and Richmond scarlet fever still prevails. Small-pox is very fatal in Havana, and a bark has arrived from that port atthe quarantine station in New Orleans with many cases of yellow fever on board. There have been two deaths reported from "typhoid malarial fever" in New Orleans. The returns from seventeen of the nineteen cities in Massachusetts, with an estimated population of 816,250, showed a decreased mortality from scarlet fever, erysipelas, and typhoid fever; about the same from whooping-cough and cerebro-spinal meningitis; slightly increased from the remaining "zymotic" and from the pulmonary diseases.

Sergeant Purssell's meteorological record for the week, in Boston, is as follows:

:

Rainfall.

(Melted Snow.)

Barometer corrected for temperature, elevation, and instrumental error. Explanation of weather symbols: O., cloudy; C., clear; F., fair; G., fog; H., hazy; R., rain; S., snow; L. S., light snow; T., threatening.

Station: Latitude 42o 21'; longitude 71° 4'; height of instrument above the sea, 77.5. For the week ending February, 22d, in 149 German cities and towns, with a population estimated at 7,512,707, the death-rate was 27.7, an increase of 1.3 from the previous week. There was no very great change in the fatality from "zymotic" diseases, except an increase in the number of places where typhoid fever prevailed. A very much greater fatality from diarrhoeal diseases in children, especially in Berlin and Munich. Acute lung diseases were less fatal, consumption much more so. The typhus fever is not spreading, but rather diminishing. Six hundred and forty deaths were reported from consumption, 450 from acute pulmonary diseases, 189 from diarrhoeal diseases, 184 from diphtheria and croup, 71 from scarlet fever, 55 from whooping-cough, 53 from typhoid fever, 32 from measles, 31 from puerperal

fever, five from typhus fever, one from small-pox (in Ratisbon). The death-rates ranged from 13.9 in Lübeck to 41.2 in Frankfort-on-the-Oder; Dantzic 27.6; Kiel 21; Breslau 33.9; Munich 33.4; Dresden 33.0; Cassel 28.4; Erfurt 28.3; Berlin 23.1; Leipsic 26.1; Hamburg 29.0; Hanover 26.1; Bremen 23.5; Cologne 27.8; Frankfort-on-the-Main 18.4; Wiesbaden 17.8; Metz 40.8.

For the week ending March 1st, in the 20 English cities, having an estimated population of 7,383,999, the death-rate was 26.6, an increase of 1.0 from the previous week: in London 25.5; Portsmouth 19.8; Plymouth 17.6; Birmingham 25.6; Leicester 32.4; Liverpool 33.6; Manchester 34.5; Leeds 30.8. There were in all the cities 514 deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs, showing a progressive increase; 120 from whooping-cough, 103 from scarlet fever, 44 from diarrhoea, 33 from fever, 32 from measles, 16 from diphtheria, and 23 from small-pox (22 in London, one in Manchester). Small-pox caused an increased number of deaths in London, but the new cases apparently are declining in numbers; it is still quite fatal in Dublin, where the total death-rate was 43; in Glasgow 29; in Edinburgh 23. Small-pox is still rife in St. Petersburg, prevalent in Vienna, Paris, Budapesth, Barcelona, Calcutta, and Bombay; typhoid fever in the Italian cities, Paris, Brussels, and India. No new cases of the pest had occurred at last reports. On the Volga, disinfection by fire, heat, etc., is going on, and the cordon is gradually relaxed. A severe form of typhus fever prevails in parts of Turkey, Roumania, Rumelia, and Russia. In Macedonia a severe epidemic of typhoid fever has been attributed to the consumption of cattle that suffered from bovine typhoid. Great precautions are taken in St. Petersburg in improving the sanitary condition of the city, and in preparations for an increase in the malignant form of "typhus fever," now prevalent there, should it occur. Deaths in various parts of Russia of persons from a disease suspected to be the plague have shown, as always heretofore, that any practicable quarantine or sanitary cordon cannot prevent occasional slips, as some of these suspicious cases came from the quarantined district.

SUFFOLK DISTRICT MEDICAL SOCIETY. A regular meeting will be held at the hall, 19 Boylston Place, on Saturday evening, March 29th, at seven and a half o'clock. The fol lowing papers will be read:

Dr. William F. Whitney. A Case of Cystinuria, with Renal Calculus.
Dr. James Ayer. A Partial Review of Two Thousand Cases of Midwifery.

Dr. D. Hunt. Conservatism in the Medical Profession.

Supper at nine o'clock.

THE GYNECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF BOSTON. The one hundred and first regular meeting of the society will be held at Medical Library Rooms, 19 Boylston Place, on the second Thursday of April, at two o'clock P. M. The profession are cordially invited to be present. HENRY M. FIELD, M. D., Secretary.

Ar the last meeting of the West Chicago Medical discussed and adopted with great unanimity :

Society the resolution given below was

Resolved, That in the opinion of the West Chicago Medical Society, it is the duty of the State Board of Health to procure an amendment of the law relating to the collection of vital statistics, securing the incorporation of those sections of the New Hampshire and Connecticut laws which provide for the compensation of persons who make returns of births and deaths, at the rate of twenty-five cents for each birth or death returned and recorded within the limits of the State.

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED. By Prof. William A. Hammond, M. D. sale by A. Williams & Co.)

Fasting Girls: Their Physiology and Pathology.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1879. (For

Forty-Ninth Annual Report of the State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 1878.

Annual Report of the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Boston. 1878. Valedictory Address to the Graduating Class of Jefferson Medical College. By Prof. J. Aitken Meigs, M. D. Philadelphia. 1879.

Address of Joseph K. Edgerton, President of the Board of Trustees, Fort Wayne Medical College, Indiana.

1879.

NOTE. In order to print these plates with greater distinctness, it has been necessary to arrange them in a different order from that in which they are referred to in the text.

Heliotype Printing Co., Boston.