American Handbook of Psychiatry.

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mon cold, for instance, had an identity of its own in the index of the eighth edition. It is now to be found as item D under the new grouping entitled "Upper Respiratory Disease, Acute." "Staphylococcal Infection: (a) Impetigo Contagiosa and (b) General Staphylococcal" is a ninth edition new classification. No worker in the entire health field should fail to review the principles of control of this infection of such current significance. The general layout in specific type used in this issue makes for easier reading. Section headings are in bold type as opposed to italics in the previous issue. This ninth edition is an indispensable manual for ready reference by all health workers since, as individuals or members of groups, each worker has responsibility of a kind for control of communicable disease. MARION W. SHEAHAN