Recent Public Health Works

Abstract

IN our review of vol. i. of the “Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health,” it was pointed out that the various articles comprising it were written by men whose knowledge and experience upon the subjects allotted to them for treatment was a sufficient guarantee of good work, and that any faults that the reviewer might possibly detect in the volume must almost of necessity be those of omission. To this second volume—which contains matter of the greatest possible interest and importance to the student and practitioner of preventive medicine—the same remarks apply. It is at least equal in all-round excellence to vol. i.; but here and there a few points might, in our opinion, have been more fully dealt with than they are, especially in a book which is destined to become essentially the work of reference for those interested in public health matters.

A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health.

By T. Stephenson Shirley F. Murphy. Vol. ii. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1893.)

Public Health and Demography.

By Edward F. Willoughby (Macmillan and Co., 1893.)

Methods of Practical Hygiene.

By Prof. K. B. Lehmann. Translated by W. Crookes, F.R.S. In two vols. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, and Co., Limited, 1893.)