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Progress in Military Sanitation... Military Sanitation in Puerto Rico. The Patient Stomach. Indian Plague Horrors. Fleas and the Transmission of Plague. Hospitals for Consumptives Not a Source of Danger.. Prize of the Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health... An Alleged Prevention of Plague; A New Conception of Teetotalism Mortality and Morbility Reports and Reviews... Yellow Fever in Florida... Vaccination in Puerto Rico... Bubonic Plague; Effective Prevention of Plague. Mortality Statistics Abroad......... Book Reviews. Atlas of the Bacteria Pathogenic in Man, with Description of Their Contemporary Literature. The Philippine Problem. President Schurman. Food Which Fails to Feed, Windmüller; The Harmful Effects of 563 Stuart's Washingtons; "The Century" 564 Index. . "St. Nicholas"; The Question of Old Age Pension, Chase; "The Living Age". 565 566 567 THE SANITARIAN.-There is no better sanitary magazine in the world than the one under notice. 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