sular officers at foreign ports to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States. Under section 16 of the act approved February 5, 1917, he has supervision over the medical officers engaged in the physical and mental examinations of all arriving aliens.

Through the Division of Domestic (Interstate) Quarantine is enforced section 3 of the act of February 15, 1893, relating to the prevention of the spread of contagious or infectious diseases from one State or Territory into another. This includes the suppression of epidemics and the sanitation of interstate carriers. Since the beginning of the present war between the United States and Germany, the Service has had charge of sanitation of areas around military camps and cantonments.

The Division of Sanitary Reports and Statistics collects and publishes information regarding the prevalence and geographic distribution of diseases dangerous to the public health in the United States and foreign countries. Court decisions, laws, regulations, and ordinances pertaining to the public health are compiled, digested, and published. Its publications contain articles on subjects relating to the public health. This division issues the Public Health Reports (weekly) and Supplements to, and Reprints from, the Public Health Reports,

Through the Division of Marine Hospitals and Relief professional care is taken of sick and disabled seamen at 22 marine hospitals and 123 other relief stations. The beneficiaries include officers and crews of registered, enrolled, or licensed vessels of the United States and of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service; seamen employed on vessels of the Mississippi River Commission, and of the Engineer Corps of the Army; keepers and surfmen of the Coast Guard. A purveying depot for the purchase and issuance of supplies is maintained at Washington. Physical examinations of officers and seamen and keepers and surfmen of the Coast Guard and the examinations for the detection of color-blindness in masters, mates, and pilots are conducted through this division, and the medical evidence of disability in claims for benefits against the Coast Guard are reviewed.

In the Division of Personnel and Accounts are kept the records of the officers and of the expenditures of the appropriations.

Through the Miscellaneous Division the various service publications are issued, including the annual reports, public health reports, supplements, and reprints, public health bulletins, bulletins of the Hygienic Laboratory, and miscellaneous publications on health topics.

General publications.-Publications have been issued dealing with subjects included in the following general topics: Alaska (sanitary conditions), Anthrax, Antiseptics, fumigants and disinfectants, Antitoxins and toxins, Care of the baby, Bacteriological standards of milk and water, Bubonic plague, Cerebrospinal meningitis, Certified milk, Cholera, Climate and relation to tuberculosis, Common drinking cups, Common towels, Communicable diseases, Deaths and death rates, Statistical publications, Dengue fever, Dental instruments (sterilization), Diet with reference to pellagra, Digitalis, Diphtheria and diphtheria antitoxin, Diseases (prevention), Disinfectants and disinfection, Drug addicts, Drug intoxication, Drugs, Dysentery (amebic), Epinephrine, Ergot, Eskimos, Filariasis, Fleas, Flies, Food, Formaldehyde, Fumigation and disinfection, Gastro-enteritis, Goiter, Habit-forming drugs, Health and exercise, Health insurance, Health authorities, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Ice, Impounded waters, Industrial hygiene, Industrial insurance, Infantile paralysis, Infant mortality, Care and feeding of infants, Inoculation, Interstate carriers (sanitation), Interstate quarantine, Intestinal infections, Leprosy, Lice, L. R. S. privy, Measles, Medical inspection of schools, Mice and rats, Milk, Morbidity statistics, Mortality statistics, Mosquitoes, Municipal ordinances on the prevention and spread of disease, Morbidity reports, Notifiable diseases, Nutritional diseases, Ophthalmia neonatorum, Open-air schools, Parasites of man, Pellagra, Pharmacopoeia of the United States (digest), Philippine Islands, Plague, Poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), Prevalence of diseases in the United States, Preventable diseases, Privies, Public health, Public health administration, Pulmonary tuberculosis, Pyorrhea alveolaris, Quarantine, Quarantine regulations, Rabies, Railroad sanitation of interstate carriers, Rat proofing, Rat extermination, Rats, Riggs disease (pyorrhea alveolaris), Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Rodents, Rural sanitation, Rural school sanitation, Sanitary legislation, Sanitary privies, Sanitary survey, Sanitation, Scarlet fever, School children, School hygiene, School sanitation, Screening to prevent malaria, Septic sore throat, Serums, toxins and analogous products, Sewage disposal, Shellfish pollution, Pollution of interstate

waters, Smallpox, Soil pollution, Spotted fever (Rocky Mountain spotted fever), Squirrels and relation to plague, Statistics of births, deaths, marriages, and public-health topics, Stream pollution, Venereal diseases, Tetanus (lockjaw), Ticks with reference to Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Trachoma, Tuberculosis, Typhoid fever, Typhus fever, Uncinariasis, Vaccination, Vessels (fumigation), Vital statistics, Water, examination, pollution, etc., Water supplies, Whooping cough, Yellow fever, medical Zoology, Zooparasitic intestinal infections.

The above items are taken from the index of the List of Publications. The bureau has issued literature on these various topics, which appeared from time to time in the form of (1) Hygienic Laboratory Bulletins; (2) Public Health Bulletins; (3) Reprints from the Public Health Reports; (4) Supplements to the Public Health Reports; (5) Yellow Fever Institute Bulletins; (6) Miscellaneous Publications.

The above-mentioned series are not issued periodically, but irregularly as material for the same is available.

(1) The Hygienic Laboratory Bulletins comprise technical studies carried on in the hygienic laboratory of this service and are designed for technical workers.

(2) The Public Health Bulletins comprise material relating to public health and sanitation and are more popular in their nature than are the Hygienic Laboratory Bulletins, and are consequently better suited for general distribution.

(3) The Reprints from the Public Health Reports are articles which first appear in the weekly Public Health Reports. Because of their popular nature, these leading articles are subsequently reprinted as separates in somewhat larger editions, in order that more general distribution may be made thereof. (4) The Supplements to the Public Health Reports are also popular in nature. This material does not originally appear in the Public Health Reports, nor are the Supplements distributed therewith.

(5) The Yellow Fever Bulletins contain the findings of the Yellow Fever Institute, created to study the cause and mode of transmission of yellow fever. There have been no bulletins issued in this series for several years, and because of the fact that the cause of yellow fever has been discovered it is not believed that further bulletins will be issued in this series.

(6) The Miscellaneous Publications comprise series of regulations necessary in the administration of the service and other miscellaneous material not properly classifiable in any of the other serial publications of the service.

(7) The service also issues a series entitled "Health News," which consist of mimeographed or multigraphed information for use of the press of the country. These news items are printed in a concise and pithy style suitable for news items. The bureau distributes these "Health News" to a mailing list comprising newspapers, magazines, writers, etc., and in response to individual requests if copies are available after the mailing list has been supplied.

Method of distribution of general publications.-Publications are distributed free so long as the supply lasts, by means of mailing lists and also in compliance with individual requests. When exhausted, applicants are then referred to the Superintendent of Documents, where copies are sold at cost. Annual and other periodical publications.-(1) Annual Report; (2) Public Health Reports (weekly).

The Public Health Reports is a weekly publication. Each issue usually contains one or more leading articles on some timely subject, relating to hygiene, sanitation, or public health. and forms the first part. The second part comprises statistical information relating to the prevalence of disease throughout the United States and foreign countries. The last part relates to sanitary legislation, comprising State laws, sanitary ordinances, and court decisions pertaining to hygiene, public health, and sanitation.

The municipal ordinances, the State laws, and the court decisions are collated into separate compilations and subsequently issued as Reprints from the Public Health Reports. The Public Health Reports are distributed in conformity with the act of Congress, February 15, 1893, to "health officers," "collectors of customs," and "other sanitarians.' Other persons interested in these reports can secure the same from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.. at a cost of $2 per year.

The following bulletins and regulations are also issued (a) For official use; (b) Congressional documents; (c) For sale by Superintendent of Documents): Interstate Quarantine Regulations of the United States. 1916. (a, c)

Official List of Officers and Stations of the United States Public Health Service. (a, c) Semiannually.

Quarantine Laws and Regulations of the United States. Revised edition. October, 1910. (a, c)

Regulations for the Government of the Public Health Service. 1913. Regulations for the Sales of Viruses, Serums, Toxins, and Analogous Products in the District of Columbia and in Interstate Traffic. May 11, 1909. Regulations Governing Uniforms of Officers and Employees of the Public Health Service. 1914. (a, c)

These are for official use and for sale by Superintendent of Documents. List of publications.-The bureau issues a list of its publications at irregular intervals, depending upon the number of documents issued and how frequently each successive list requires revising, and also small monthly lists.

Mailing lists.-The bureau maintains mailing lists for the following service publications: (1) Public Health Bulletins; (2) Hygienic Laboratory Bulletins; (3) Reprints from the Public Health Reports; (4) Supplements to the Public Health Reports; (5) Anuual Reports; (6) Public Health Reports; (7) Bound Public Health Reports; (8) Yellow Fever Bulletins; (9) Health News (Press Bulletins); (10) Monthly List of Publications.

Additions to these mailing lists are made free of charge.

Maps. The bureau issues no series of maps. It frequently happens that maps showing the prevalence of disease, or for kindred purposes, are issued in connection with some of the above publications, but in this event the map appears in the publication itself and is not issued separately.

Correspondence.-Requests for publications should be addressed to the Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service, Washington, D. C.

THE COAST GUARD.1

Principal administrative officials.-Captain Commandant, Chief of Division of Operations, Ordnance, Communication, Chief of Division of Matériel, Equipment, Superintendent of Construction and Repair, Engineer in Chief, Inspector, General Superintendent.

General information and duties.-The Captain Commandant of the Coast Guard is charged by law with the administration of the Coast Guard, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Headquarters are located in the Munsey Building, 1329 E Street. The act of January 28, 1915, provided that the Coast Guard be created in lieu of the then existing Revenue-Cutter Service and the Life-Saving Service, and to be composed of those two organizations. It also provided that it shall constitute a part of the military forces of the United States, and shall operate under the Treasury Department in time of peace and operate as a part of the Navy, subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy, in time of war or when the President shall so direct.

In general the duties of the Coast Guard may be classified as follows: Rendering assistance to vessels in distress and saving life and property; destruction or removal of wrecks, derelicts, and other floating dangers to navigation; extending medical aid to American vessels engaged in deep-sea fisheries; protection of the customs revenue; operating as a part of the Navy in time of war or when the President shall direct; enforcement of law and regulations governing anchorage of vessels in navigable waters; enforcement of law relating to quarantine and neutrality; suppression of mutinies on merchant vessels; enforcement of navigation and other laws governing merchant vessels and motor boats; enforcement of law to provide for safety of life on navigable waters during regattas and marine parades; protection of game and the seal and other fisheries in Alaska, etc.; enforcement of sponge-fishing laws.

To assist the Captain Commandant in conducting the business of his office there are established at headquarters the following divisions:

Division of operations: Having cognizance of matters relating to the personnel and operations of the service.

Division of matériel: Having cognizance of matters relating to supplies, outfits, equipment, accounts, and the files.

Division of construction and repair: Having cognizance of matters relating to the construction of and repairs to the hulls of vessels and boats, stations, wharves, and all other property.

At the present time this service is under the Navy Department, but it is normally under the Treasury Department.

Division of engineering: Having cognizance of matters relating to the construction of and repairs to the motive power of vessels and boats and the machinery of all other property.

Division of inspection: Having cognizance of matters relating to the inspection of vessels, stations, boats, and all other property.

Under the direction of the Captain Commandant statistics are prepared regarding the loss of life and property on account of wrecked vessels in American waters. He is also required to acquaint himself, as far as practicable, with all means employed in foreign countries which may seem to affect advantageously the interests of the Coast Guard, and to cause to be properly investigated all plans, devices, and inventions for the improvement of lifesaving apparatus for use at the stations which may appear to be meritorious and available.

PUBLICATIONS.'

Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned, 1916.
Revenue-Cutter Service in the War with Spain.

COAST GUARD.

Bulletin No. 4. Derelict Destruction and Removal of other Menaces to Navigation, 1915. (a, c)

Bulletin No. 5. International Ice Observation and Ice Patrol Service in North Atlantic Ocean, 1915.

(a, c)

Handbook on the Care and Operation of Gasoline Engines. (a, c) Also published as a Congressional (House) document.

Information Relative to Appointments to Cadetships in the Line and Cadet Engineers of the United States Coast Guard.

(a, c)

Instructions for the Maintenance, Care, and Operation of Telephone Lines and Equipment, United States Coast Guard, 1915. (a)

Radio Instructions for the United States Coast Guard. (a)

Register of Officers, Vessels, and Stations of the United States Coast Guard. (a, c) Annually.

Regulations for the Coast Guard of the United States. (a)

Regulations Governing the Uniforms for Warrant Officers and Enlisted Persons of the United States Coast Guard. (a)

FORMER REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE.

Bulletin No. 1. Reports of Vessels on Ice Patrol in the North Atlantic Ocean, (a, c)

1913.

Bulletin No. 2. Methods of Searching for Derelicts at Sea, 1913.

(a, c)

Bulletin No. 3. International Ice Observation and Ice Patrol Service in North Atlantic Ocean, 1914. (a, c)

Fur Seal, Sea Otter, and Salmon Fisheries: Acts of Congress, Presidential Proclamations, and Regulations Governing United States Vessels: Acts of Parliament and Orders in Council Pertaining to Fur Seal Fisheries in Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean; Sea Otter Regulations; Laws as to Fisheries in Alaska. (a, c)

Information Relative to Removal of Derelicts and other Dangers to Navigation. (a)

Instructions for Drills and Target Practice in the United States RevenueCutter Service.

(a)

Regulations Governing the Uniform for Commissioned Officers, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men of the Revenue-Cutter Service of the United States. (a)

Regulations for the School of Instruction of the United States Revenue-Cutter Service. (a, c.)

Report of the Board of Engineers, United States Army, on the Storage of Explosives in New York Harbor. (a, c.)

Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Steamer Corwin in the Arctic 1884. 1885. (b, c)

Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Cutter Bear and the Overland Expedi tion for the Relief of the Whalers in the Arctic Ocean 1897-1898. (b, c)

1 (a) For official use; (b) congressional documents; (c) for sale by Superintendent of Documents.

Report of the Operations of the Revenue Steamer Nunivak on the Yukon River Station, Alaska. 1899-1901. (c)

Report on Sea Otter Banks of Alaska.

(c)

FORMER LIFE-SAVING SERVICE.

Beach Apparatus Drill. (a) Irregularly.

Instructions to Mariners in Case of Shipwreck, with Information Concern. ing the Life-Saving Stations upon the Coasts of the United States. (a, c) Irregularly.

Organization and Methods of the Life-Saving Service. (a) Irregularly. Method of distribution of general publications.-The first two are distributed free through Superintendent of Public Documents, others in accordance with

note.

Annual and other periodical publications.—(a) Annual Report United States Coast Guard, including organization, work performed, statistical tables, and miscellaneous data regarding the service.

(b) Annual reports of Former Revenue-Cutter Service and Former LifeSaving Service for sale by Superintendent of Documents.

Mailing lists.-There is a mailing list maintained for the annual report only. Correspondence.-The Captain Commandant, United States Coast Guard, should be addressed on matters relating to Coast Guard publications. At present the service has been temporarily transferred to the Navy Department.

SUPERVISING ARCHITECT'S OFFICE.

Principal administrative officials.-Supervising Architect; Executive Officer; Technical officer; Superintendents: Drafting Division, Computing Division, Structural Division, Mechanical Engineering Division, Repairs Division, Accounts Division, Maintenance Division; Chief of Files and Records Division. General information and duties.—Subject to the direction and approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the duties performed by the Supervising Architect embrace the following: Securing cessions from States of jurisdiction over sites and the payment for the same; preparation of drawings, estimates, specifications, etc., for, and the superintendence of the work of, constructing, rebuilding, extending, or repairing public buildings; the care, maintenance, and repair of public buildings, the direction of the operating force in public buildings, and the supply of furniture, carpets, lighting fixtures, mechanical equipment, safes,and miscellaneous supplies for use of custodians' and engineers' forces in the care of public buildings, post offices, customhouses, courts, etc. General publications.-(a) History of Public Buildings Under the Control of the Treasury Department. (Out of print.)

(b) Instructions to Custodians of Public Buildings Under the Control of the Treasury Department. Irregularly.

(c) Instructions to Superintendents of Construction, Superintendents of Repairs, and Assistant Superintendents of Repairs of Public Buildings Under the Control of the Treasury Department. Irregularly.

(d) Information and Suggestions for the Care of Public Buildings, etc. 1916. (a, c.)

All of the above are for official use, and (a), (b), and (d) can also be purchased of the Superintendent of Documents.

Annual and all other periodical publications.-Annual Report of the Supervising Architect. This is the only publication prepared in this office. It shows the public buildings under the control of the Treasury which are occupied, in course of construction, and authorized, including sites, arranged alphabetically, in two divisions. Division A. Statement of legislative authorization and appropriations, with notes relative to the acquisition of sites the progress of the work, and other pertinent features. Division B. Statement of expenditures for buildings-construction, annual repairs, etc.-and sites, showing outstanding obligations and balances, with notes as to surplus fund deposits, and other features.

Distribution of report.-Report is distributed free on limited list maintained in this office, which list is restricted to employees of the office in the field; to certain newspapers, libraries, and United States foreign representatives, and to construction and bonding companies doing business with the office. It is also on sale at 50 cents per copy by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., to whom remittances should be sent.