are made of the water drawn from a tap in the city. Once a week a complete sanitary examination and monthly mineral analyses are also made.

Interesting diagrams and figures regarding the death rate from typhoid fever are included. These show that the improvement to the water supply began when the coagulant was used in 1905. For the fourteen years before the coagulant was used there were a total of 210 deaths from typhoid fever, 32 of which were due to imported cases, leaving 178 of local origin. The average for this period is, total 14.9imported 2.3, local 12.6.

For the seven years that the coagulant has been used there were a total of 69 deaths from typhoid fever, 40 of which were due to imported cases, leaving 29 of

local origin. The average for this period is, total 9.8-imported 5.7, local 4.1.

Since the coagulant has been used in connection with the filters there has been a reduction of 67.5 per cent in the local deaths from typhoid fever. This does not take into consideration the increase in population during that period.

In quoting these figures Mr. Caird points out that it is not the intention to convey the idea that the water was the cause of the

typhoid fever. There are many other means of contracting the disease. A pure water can only prevent that typhoid which was formerly due to impure water.

The report contains illustrations of the filter plant and wheel house, the pumping station and dam, and the standpipe. The latter is here reproduced.

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A Visit to Every

City in New York State

To render direct service to the cities of the state, a novel plan has been inaugurated by the Conference of Mayors and Other City Officials of the State of New York. Mayor Rosslyn M. Cox, of Middletown, President of the Conference, and Secretary William P. Capes, of New York, have started to visit every city in the state to study their various problems and needs, and to confer with local officials as to ways in which the Conference can assist them. The cities in the northern and western parts of the state are the first to be visited, the itinerary starting in Ogdensburg, August 24, and including during the following three weeks the following cities in the order named: Watertown, Oswego, Fulton, Syracuse, Cortland, Oneida, Auburn, Geneva, Ithaca, Canandaigua, Rochester, North Tonawanda, Tonawanda, Lackawanna, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Lockport.

Steps by which Results can be
Secured in City Planning

At the London Summer School of Town Planning a paper was read on August 14 by John Nolen, Sc. D., of Cambridge, Mass., on "Modern Town Planning in America." The principal contributions of the United States so far in the movement for the better planning and building of cities were summarized by Dr. Nolen as follows:

The parks or systems of parks, such as those of Boston and Kansas City.

The playgrounds, as at Chicago, Rochester, Hartford, and other cities throughout the country.

The development of street car transportation, making possible the separation of business and residential neighborhoods.

Metropolitan planning in certain fields, as illustrated by the work of the Water, Sewer, and Park Commissions of the Boston neighborhoods.

The wide residential streets, with tree planting, common to most American cities, and the relatively large residence lots with detached or semi-detached houses.

The following is an abstract of Dr. Nolen's answer to the question, "By what steps are we likely to get results?"

"First of all we must gather up the experience of our own land and that from abroad; but we must not merely talk about it, we must find ways to apply to it. We must utilize the men who know and we must have repeated meetings and conferences and exhibitions for the comparison and communication of ideas. Then our cities must have broader powers. There should be less coddling by state governments and more city self-dependence.

"Broader legal powers should be accompanied by broader and better ideas of municipal finance. Much of our practice needs to be radically changed; some of it revolutionized. We are only beginning to apply sound, fair and equitable business methods to the raising and spending of the vast sums which are needed for a modern American city. Special financial methods, like excess condemnation and assessments for particular improvements, are beginning to get wider consideration.

"If we are really to advance in city building, we must recognize afresh that changes in our practice can be brought about only by changes in public opinion. We must find more ways and better ways of forming intelligent public opinion and of giving it effective expression. Above all else, this is what makes the bright promise of modern city planning in America, for in this, I believe, we already lead much of Europe. There is nothing in Europe to-day that surpasses the widespread civic awakening