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 422 .REVIEWS OF BOOKS comments are in general the result of wide study, and they will afford interesting and instructive reading to tu&nts of current Indian politics. P. MUK]U Ytr Book 1918. Board of th Jheria Mines Board of Health for Published at the oilice of the Jheria M/nes o! Health, Dhanbad, disrie Manbhum. 1918. pp. 146. Thb Jheria Mines B)ard of Health is in charge of sanitation o! the largest and richest the efficiency of its work affects not a hundred-thousand workers in the the coal-field of India and merely the health of mines but also the prosperity of the coal mining industry. The Board is to be congratulated, therefore, upon the exceedingly practical Year Book which it has issued and which it circulates free to all mine-owners iu the Jheria coal-field.. Aftmr an ex- planatory preface the volume contains a reprint of the Hining Settlement Act of 1912 and of the Rules framed under the Act which give the Board and its Sanitary Officers all the necessary directions and power. Then follow the Notifications issued under the Act,. and a reprint of the Epidemic Diseases Act o[ 1897, and the temporary Regulations and Order issued thereunder. Then comes the Board's Annual Report for 1916-17, and the bulletins issued by the Board, dealing with such subjects as the causes and prevention of cholera, the notification of infectious diseases, the habits and life-history of the mosquito, the diseases conveyed by it, and the precautions which should be taken to combat them. .We next find reprints of a series of sanitary placards intended to be posted in colliery premises. Both the bulletius and the placards are exceeding* ly clear and practical, giving minute directions for the sanitary precautions necessary to preserve health in any city or industrial community. They would serve as most useful models for municipalities to use or adapt to local circumstances throughout India. Par VII of the volume contains a reprint of the Report of the Committee on the Housing of Labor in the Jheria Coal Field and the Government Resolution thereon. Part VIII contains in. formation on most varied subjects that may be useful to the managers of Jheria mines; and the volume ends with an appendix .of' forms for official notifications.