RECENT ADDITIONS IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION The weekly issues of the Notes since September 6th have included only those additions in the Public Health Division which seemed likely to be of general interest, such as new publications on food supply, milk supply, etc. The following titles, although filed in the Public Health Division for the special use of Health Department employees, may be secured by any municipal employee on application at the main Library in the Municipal Building. Knopf, S. A. The period of life at which infection from tuberculosis occurs most frequently. How may we diminish the frequency of those infections and prevent them from becoming tuberculous disease? With appended notes on a successful anti-tuberculosis community experiment in Australia and a projected one in America. (American Journal of Public Health, Sept., 1916. p. 934–952.) National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. What you should know about tuberculosis. Useful facts for the tuberculous and those living with them. May, 1916. 32 p. (Pamphlet no. 106.) Associated Out-patient Clinics of the City of New York. Third annual 614.N5a report, 1915. 40 p., chart. Report includes a chart prepared for the Division of Industrial Hygiene of the N. Y. City Department of Health, showing industrial poisons and irritants originating in dusty trades. Dorland, W. A. N. The American illustrated medical dictionary. A new and complete dictionary of the terms used in medicine, surgery, dentistry, pharmacy, chemistry, nursing, veterinary science, biology, etc. 8. ed. rev. 1916. 1137 p., plates. 610.3D73 Herms, W. B. Medical and veterinary entomology. A textbook for use in schools and colleges as well as a handbook for the use of physicians, veterinarians and public health officials. 1915. 393 p. illus. 614.43H43 Hutchinson, Woods. Community hygiene. 1916., 310 p. illus. (Woods Hutchinson health series.) 614H97 Merrill, T. C. Some aspects of home use of proprietaries with children. 1915. 7 p. 614.353M55 Address delivered at Academy of Medicine, New York, Feb. 16, 1916. Reprinted from American Journal of Public Health, v. 6, no. 5. Schneider, Franz, jr. Relative values in public health work. (American Journal of Public Health, Sept., 1916. p. 916-925 tables.) PRINTED AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY NARVARD COLLEGE Linha.. RECEIVED The cup Yo MUNICIPAL GOVER! OCT 291934 MUNICIPAL REFERENCE LIBRARY NOTES PUBLISHED weekly, except during July and August, by The New York Public Library for circulation Room 512, Municipal Building. Telephones: 1072 Worth; 1200 Worth, extension 163 Volume III 25 October 1916 Number 8 "New York City's Administrative Progress, 1914-1916: a survey of various departments under the jurisdiction of the Mayor," is the title of a 351-page report which has just been issued, based on a survey conducted under the direction of Henry Bruère, Chamberlain, in May, 1916. Following is a brief summary of the contents: Part 1: Legislative and general administrative progress made in fulfillment of fusion platform program. Home Rule. Police Department. Extension of City's social service program. Development of a comprehensive, scientific system of pensions for city employees. Adoption of a vigorous policy of port and water-front development. - Economy and efficiency in city expenditure. Board of Aldermen. Part 2: Survey of administrative departments. Relation of Department of Finance to the administrative departments. - Department of Health (p. 62-142). - Department of Correction (p. 144-181). - Tenement House Department (p. 183-194). — Board of Assessors (p. 195-200).- Commissioner of Accounts (p. 201-203). Board of City Record (p. 204-209). - Municipal Civil Service Commission (p. 211-230). — Law Department (p. 231-237). - - Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity (p. 238-271). Parks and Recreation (p. 272-302). - Department of Bridges (p. 303-316). - Department of Street Cleaning (p. 317-345). In his letter of transmittal addressed to the Mayor, Mr. Bruère says: "This report is a statement of administrative progress made and projected in fifteen departments under the direction of the mayor during the period of your mayoralty. It is based on a survey conducted at your request under my direction as chamberlain by examiners drawn from the board of estimate bureaus, the office of the commissioner of accounts, and the Bureau of Municipal Research. It aims to be impartial and accurate, and as complete as the time available for making it allowed.... |