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[AprilBoard of Control). (PublishedBulletin of Iowa Institutions quarterly. Volumve XX.(UnderThe Board of Control of Iowa for many years has wisely held quarterly conferences with the executive officers of the institutions under its supervision. This volume contains reports of these meetings together with the papers read. As may easily be imagined, these are more general in character than are usually read at medical meetings. Naturally, a number are upon administrative questions, but the majority are upon medical subjects. It would be a very wise man who could not find something stimulating among these papers, and their preservation in this form is commendable.W.Third Annual Report of the Massachusetts Commission of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the ber 30, 1918. (Boston: Wright & Patter Printing1919.)R. D.Diseases NovemPrinters,on Mental Year Ending Co., StateConfronted select those quent high comment.items in this book it is difficult to The effect of the war, the conseinfluenza epidemic, are all subject to under the commission there were 3631 cases of influenza, of which 568 were among employees. There were 542 cases of pneumonia, of which were among employees. There were #{182}07 deaths from influenza (6 employees) and 310 from pneumonia (28 employees). So many patients lead sheltered