Process engineering is applied to the design of a new I concept of a municipal incinerator. Each of seven incin· eration process areas are analyzed separately and the equivalent process in the chemical and metallurgical industries examined for proven design features applicable to incineration. Examples of integration of designs for process areas are given. Advantages of this new inciner­ ator c...

been received from Dr. Egeling, the Chief Inspector of Health for the Province of South Holland, wo learn that the city of Rotterdam is about to obtain a supply of water from the Maas, which is to be filtered through sand and gravel prior to its delivery for consumption. This will be a great boon to the city, considering its present position in that respect; but the authorities would do wisely ...

We gladly renew acquaintance in this second edition of Sir John Simon's English Sanitary Institutions with this fascinating and instructive history of human sanitary endeavour. The successful writer on matters of universal history must be a man of wide knowledge and of broad mind, able to sift and choose, to prune and criticise, and to weave the disconnected threads of record and tradition into...

1. This service should be on an equal footing with the Provincial Medical Service, i.e., the health officers should be gazetted officers and should enjoy all the rights and privileges of a Government servant as regards leave, pension, &c. 2. The health officers should be absolutely independent of the Municipal Commissioners and should be vested with both administrative and executive powers. The...