assistants ($3,000) are medical men. They superintend the collection of statistics of births, deaths and marriages, issue burial permits and make searches for missing persons. In the department, in addition to a force of 53 clerks, copyists and stenographers, there are four medical clerks ($1,200), and a medical inspector ($1,500).

The superintendent of the sanitary department investigates complaints about noises which disturb the comfort of people, supervises dangerous trades, has charge of the suppression of mosquitoes and the removal of the bodies of the dead animals. His force consists of five sanitary supervisors ($3,500) and a force of medical and sanitary inspectors ($1,200-$2,550).

The bureau of infectious diseases collects from physicians the reports of the appearance of such diseases, issues a daily bulletin showing their location, establishes and enforces the observance of quarantine regulations, disinfects premises, disinfects or directs the destruction of infected goods, attends to the vaccination of patients in public institutions, supervises the tubercular hospitals and camps, and the laboratory for Pasteur treatment. The medical staff consists of a director ($5,000), an assistant director ($4,000), 5 chiefs of divisions ($3,500), 4 borough chiefs, 17 physicians in charge of branch offices and hospitals, 44 medical inspectors ($1,200 to $3,000), 62 attending physicians ($300 to $600), besides a force of bacteriologists and laboratory assistants.

The bureau of laboratories attends to the manufacture of vaccine virus, antitoxines and other biologic products which are used for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases. There is a clinical depart

ment which advises and instructs physicians in the use of these products; a laboratory for the examination of food and milk; a laboratory which makes bacteriological examinations for other departments and for physicians. The medical staff consists of a director, 7 assistant directors, 25 bacteriologists and 42 laboratory assistants, all of whose pay corresponds with the pay for services of the same kind in other departments.

The bureau of child hygiene is in charge of a director ($3,000), an assistant director ($2,550) and 5 chiefs of divisions, 5 borough chiefs and 14 supervising inspectors. There are 98 school medical inspectors ($1,200$1,500) 9 examiners for employment certificates; 7 inspectors of child welfare institutions; 18 attendants at clinics for school children; and a large force of nonmedical assistants, inspectors and nurses, attendants at milk stations, orderlies, watchmen and cleaners. This department looks after the medical inspection of school children, conducts 55 milk stations for the distribution of properly prepared milk for infants, supervises the midwives, operates clinics for children and controls day nurseries, and issues employment certificates to the children who leave school.

The director of the bureau of food inspection makes and enforces the regulations for the manufacture and sale of food products, including milk and beverages, and the sale of drugs and patent medicines. Samples of milk are taken at the dairies and frequently examined, and regulations are made for safeguarding of the milk supplies. Over 4,000 bakeries are regularly visited and inspected, slaughter houses and retail meat markets are also under the jurisdiction of this bureau.

The entire force of the department in 1915 was 152, but only a few of the chief officers were medical men.

There are only three medical men in the staff of the bureau of publicity. During the year 1914, this department gave lecture courses to medical and food inspectors and to nurses, noonday talks to factory employees, conducted an anti-tuberculosis campaign, managed several important health exhibits and distributed over 200 different health bulletins. The bureau of hospitals of the department of health conducts three hospitals for contagious diseases and one country tuberculosis hospital or camp. While there are over a thousand employees under the jurisdiction of the bureau, the medical staff consists of a director, 26 hospital physicians and a varying number of internes and medical inspectors. The hospital physicians receive from $1,200 to $1,800 and maintenance, and internes $120 a year and maintenance.

This elaborate organization does not include the entire medical service under the direct control of the city. The independent Bellevue and Allied Hospitals under the direction of a superintendent ($6,000), director of laboratories ($5,000), and assistant medical superintendent ($2,500), has 4 attending physicians giving part time service ($1,000), 38 out-patient's physicians ($600 to $900), and a force of pathologists, radiographers and laboratory assistants.

There are also four medical examiners for the school department who pass upon the physical qualifications of applicants for appointment to the teaching staff, 25 surgeons of the police department ($3,500), and 11 visiting physicians to prisons ($1,200-$1,800). The department of charities has a medical superintendent ($6,000). The superintendents of the hospitals under