MORTALITY-Continued. Weekly mortality table, foreign and insular cities-Continued. ARGENTINA-Buenos Aires.-Month of April, 1911. Population, 1,323,826. Total number of deaths from all causes 1,740, including diphtheria 23, measles 2, scarlet fever 6, smallpox 21, tuberculosis 204, typhoid fever 51. AUSTRIA-Brunn.-Month of April, 1911. Population, 108,944. Total number of deaths from all causes 275, including diphtheria 1, tuberculosis 63, typhoid fever 2. BRITISH BURMA-Rangoon.-Month of April, 1911. Population, 289,432. Total number of deaths from all causes 1,209, including cholera 52, measles 1, smallpox 193, tuberculosis 25, typhoid fever 1. CANADA-Sherbrooke.-Month of June, 1911. Population, 16,000. Total number of deaths from all causes 27, including diphtheria 1, tuberculosis 4. Vancouver.-Month of May, 1911. Population, 100,000. Total number of deaths from all causes 106, including diphtheria 2, scarlet fever 1, tuberculosis 10, typhoid fever 1. GREAT BRITAIN.-Week ended June 17, 1911. England and Wales.-The deaths registered in 77 great towns correspond to an annual rate of 12.2 per 1,000 of the population, which is estimated at 16,157,797. Scotland. The deaths registered in 8 principal towns correspond to an annual rate of 14.2 per 1,000 of the population, which is esti mated at 1,710,291. The lowest rate was recorded at Aberdeen, viz, 11.5, and the highest at Paisley, viz, 17.9 per 1,000 of the population. The total number of deaths from all causes was 466, including diphtheria 5, measles 14, scarlet fever 3. ITALY-Florence.-Month of May, 1911. Population, 242,403. Total number of deaths from all causes 452, including diphtheria 1, measles 12, scarlet fever 1, tuberculosis 59, typhoid fever 2. Genoa. Two weeks, 1911. Population, 279,163. Total number of deaths from all causes 116, including diphtheria 3, tuberculosis 22. ST. THOMAS.-Three weeks ended June 16, 1911. Population, 11,012. Total number of deaths from all causes 24. No deaths from contagious diseases. SIERRA LEONE-Freetown.-Month of May, 1911. Population, 40,000. Total number of deaths from all causes 61. No contagious diseases. SPAIN-Huelva.-Month of May, 1911. Population, 28,335. Total number of deaths from all causes 61, including diphtheria 1, tuberculosis 16. TASMANIA-Hobart.-Month of April, 1911. Population, 187,195. Total number of deaths from all causes 140, including diphtheria 3, tuberculosis 13, typhoid fever 1. TURKS ISLANDS.-Two weeks ended June 24, 1911. Population, 1,681. Total number of deaths from all causes 1. No contagious diseases. URUGUAY- Montevideo.-Month of April, 1911. Population, 321,224. Total number of deaths from all causes 462, including diphtheria 2, measles 1, smallpox 3, tuberculosis 71, typhoid fever 12. By authority of the Secretary of the Treasury: WALTER WYMAN, Surgeon General, United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS. VOL. XXVI. JULY 21, 1911. UNITED STATES. No. 29. ESTABLISHMENTS LICENSED FOR THE PROPAGATION AND SALE OF VIRUSES, SERUMS, TOXINS, AND ANALOGOUS PRODUCTS. The following table contains a list of the establishments holding on July 1, 1911, licenses issued by the Treasury Department in accordance with the act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled "An act to regulate the sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products in the District of Columbia, to regulate interstate traffic in said articles, and for other purposes. The number of the license of each firm is also given, together with the names of the several products for which licenses have been granted. No. of Пcense. Establishments. Products. 1 Parke Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich..... Diphtheria antitoxin, antigonococcic serum, antistrep tococcic serum, antitetanic serum, antitubercle serum, bacterial vaccines, erysipelas and prodigiosus toxines (Coley), tuberculins, and vaccine virus. 2 H. K. Mulford Co., Philadelphia, Pa... Diphtheria antitoxin, antidysenteric serum, antigono coccic serum, antimeningococcic serum, antipneu- Diphtheria antitoxin, antirabic virus, tuberculins, vac- Diphtheria antitoxin, antistreptococcic serum, tuber- Diphtheria antitoxin, antidysenteric serum, antimen- Diphtheria antitoxin and antistreptococcic serum. Diphtheria antitoxin, antigonococcic vaccine, vaccine 87 1101 No. of license. Establishments. Products. 17 Lederle Antitoxin Laboratories, New Diphtheria antitoxin, antistreptococcic serum, antitetanic serum, suspension of lactic acid bacilli, vaccine virus, and antityphoid vaccine. 18 Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., London, Diphtheria antitoxin, antigonococcic serum, antidysenEngland. teric serum, anticolon bacillus serum, antistaphylo Diphtheria antitoxin, antidysenteric serum, antimen- MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES, RULES, AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO PUBLIC HYGIENE. [Adopted since Jan. 1, 1910.] COLUMBUS, GA. FOODSTUFFS SANITARY PROTECTION OF. SECTION 1. That all persons, firms, or corporations, their agents or employees, in charge of or working at meat markets, fish markets, restaurants, bakeries, retail grocery stores, milk depots, where articles of food are kept or sold or offered for sale, shall thoroughly and securely screen all doors, windows, or other openings into such places so as to prevent the ingress of flies or other insects thereto. SEC. 2. That no article of food, except live articles, such as chickens, ducks, etc., shall be kept on the outside of any retail store, market, restaurant, bakery, milk depot, or other place where food is sold or offered for sale, or upon the side walls in front of such places for purpose of display, or for purposes of advertisement, or for any other purpose except to receive and deliver same to and from such place. SEC. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person to run or operate any bakery or deal in bread, or any employee of such bakery or dealer in bread to carry or cause to be carried bread, cakes, or pies, or like articles of food through the streets unless transported in fly-proof or dust-proof receptacles. SEC. 4. All wagons used for transporting bread, cakes, and pies and like articles of food shall be furnished with a fly-proof and dust-proof compartment that shall contain shelves on which the bread shall be placed, and such shelves shall be covered with clean paper and this paper shall be changed at least once every 24 hours. Furthermore, all breads, cakes, pies, and like articles of food offered for sale in grocery stores, bakeries, or other retail distributors of bread, etc., shall be kept in fly-proof and dust-proof show cases or like receptacles. SEC. 5. That any person, firm, or corporation, their agents or employees, violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, on conviction thereof in the recorder's |