Publications. The only publication issued is the Annual Report, which is distributed free as long as limited edition is available. Printing of this Annual Report was discontinued with the 1916 report.

NAVY DEPARTMENT.

Principal_administrative official.-Auditor for the Navy Department, Washington, D. C.

General information and duties. The Auditor for the Navy Department receives and settles all accounts of the Department of the Navy, including all accounts relating to the Naval Establishment, Marine Corps, and the Naval Academy.

Publications. The only publications issued are: (a) Annual Report to Secretary of Treasury of work done during the fiscal year; (b) Digest of Naval Appropriations. Printing of this Annual Report was discontinued with the 1916

report.

STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.

Principal administrative official.-Auditor for the State and Other Departments, Washington, D. C.

General information and duties.-The Auditor for the State and Other Departments receives and settles the accounts of the White House; the two Houses of Congress; the Supreme Court; the Departments of State, including the expenses of the Diplomatic and Consular Service; Justice, covering expenses of United States courts; Agriculture, including its field service; Commerce; Labor; also the accounts of the following governmental establishments: Government Printing Office; Interstate Commerce Commission; Smithsonian Institution and National Museum; District of Columbia; Civil Service Commission; the Federal Reserve Board; the Federal Trade Commission; and all boards, commissions, and establishments of the Government not under the administration of any executive department.

Publications.-The only publication issued is the Annual Report, a brief statement of the work of the bureau for the year, of which only about 125 copies are printed. Printing of this Annual Report was discontinued with the 1916 report.

Mailing list.-Distributed only in department, unless a request is received from outside.

Correspondence.-Requests for information should be addressed to Auditor for State and Other Departments, Washington, D. C.

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

Principal administrative official.-Auditor for the Post Office Department. General information and duties.-The Auditor for the Post Office Department receives and examines all accounts of the office of the Postmaster General and of all bureaus and offices under his direction; all postal and money-order accounts of postmasters and foreign administrations; all accounts relating to the transportation of mails, and to all other business within the jurisdiction of the Post Office Department; and certifies the balances arising thereon to the Postmaster General for accounts of the postal revenue and expenditures therefrom, and to the Secretary of the Treasury for other accounts. He also receives and examines reports and accounts of postmasters operating postal savings banks, and accounts for expenditures from the appropriation for continuing the establishment, maintenance, and extension of the postal savings depositories. He registers, charges, and countersigns the warrants upon the Treasury issued in liquidation of indebtedness; superintends the collecting of debts due the United States for the service of the Post Office Department and all penalties imposed; directs suits and all legal proceedings in civil actions; and takes all legal measures to enforce the payment of money due the United States for the service of the Post Office Department, and for this purpose has direct official relations with the Solicitor of the Treasury, Department of Justice. He receives and accepts, with the written consent of the Postmaster General, offers of compromise under sections 295 and 409, Revised Statutes. He is required to submit to the Secretary of the Treasury quarterly statements

of postal receipts and expenditures, and to report to the Postmaster General the financial condition of the Post Office Department at the close of each fiscal year. Annual and other periodical publications.—(a) The Annual Report of the Auditor for the Post Office Department contains the financial statement covering the fiscal operations of the Post Office Department and the balance sheet showing its financial condition at the close of the fiscal year, which is published as a part of the Postmaster General's report to Congress. Distributed free. (b) Quarterly Financial Statement of the Auditor for the Post Office Department, covering the fiscal operations of the Post Office Department by quarters. Distributed free.

(c) The Accounting System of the United States, 1789 to 1910. For sale by Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Mailing lists.-Lists are maintained for first two publications for those interested.

Correspondence.-Address Auditor for Post Office Department, Washington,

D. C.

REGISTER OF THE TREASURY.

Principal administrative officials.-Register, Assistant Register.

General information and duties.-The Register of the Treasury signs all bonds of the United States, the bonds of the District of Columbia, the Philippine Islands, the city of Manila, the city of Cebu, and the Porto Rican gold loans, and keeps records showing the daily outstanding balances thereof. He certifies to the Treasurer of the United States, the Auditor for the Treasury, and the Loans and Currency Division, Secretary's Office, the interest due on United States loans at interest periods. He examines and approves for credit in the public debt account the Treasurer's monthly report of paid interest coupons, gives an administrative examination to paid interest checks received from the Treasurer; certifies to, and transmits such accounts to the Auditor for the Treasury.

Annual and other periodical publications.-(a) Annual Report. A report to the Secretary of the Treasury of the transactions in coupon and registered bonds of the United States, the insular possessions, and the District of Columbia. Also, the number and amount of paid interest checks on current loans given an administrative examination. The number and amount of all paid interest coupons received and on file. The printing of the Annual Report was discontinued with the 1916 report.

(b) History of the Currency of the Country and of the Loans of the United States from the Earliest Period to June 30, 1900. Second edition. For sale by Superintendent of Documents.

Correspondence.-Address Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

FEDERAL FARM LOAN BUREAU.

Principal administrative officials and districts.-Members of the Board: Chairman (ex officio), Secretary of the Treasury; Farm Loan Commissioner and Executive Officer; three other members of Commission; Secretary. FEDERAL LAND BANK CITIES: District No. 1, Springfield, Mass.; District No. 2, Baltimore, Md.; District No. 3, Columbia, S. C.; District No. 4, Louisville, Ky.; District No. 5, New Orleans, La.; District No. 6, St. Louis, Mo.; District No. 7, St. Paul, Minn.; District No. 8, Omaha, Nebr.; District No. 9, Wichita, Kans,; District No. 10, Houston, Tex.; District No. 11, Berkeley, Cal.; District No. 12, Spokane, Wash. FEDERAL LAND BANK DISTRICTS: District No. 1, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey; District No. 2, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia; District No. 3, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida; District No. 4, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee; District No. 5, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana; District No. 6, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas; District No. 7, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota; District No. 8, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming; District No. 9, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico; District No. 10, Texas; District No. 11, California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona; District No. 12, Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Idaho.

General information and duties.-The Federal Farm Loan Board is charged with the administration of the Federal farm loan act. It establishes the 12

Federal land banks, delimits their respective districts, appoints the temporary directors and 3 members of the permanent board of directors of each of them, supervises their operations, appoints their registrars and appraisers, and has power to grant charters to national farm loan associations and joint-stock land banks. It makes appraisal of farm lands and prepares and publishes amortization tables. It supervises the operation of national farm loan associations and joint-stock land banks. It is its duty to disseminate by publications of its own and through the press matter setting forth the advantages to borrowers and investors of the system of loans established by the act. It may authorize Federal land banks to appoint agents for the making of loans to farmers in counties which fail to form farm loan associations. It has the power to revise and alter rates of interest charged by Federal land banks; to grant or refuse to Federal land banks or joint-stock land banks authority to make any specific issue of bonds; to control charges made to borrowers for expenses incident to the making of loans; to require Federal land banks to meet their obligations to each other, and to exercise such incidental powers as are necessary or requisite to fulfill its duties and carry out the purposes of the Federal farm loan act. General publications.-The following five circulars have been issued: Circular No. 1. National Farm Loan Associations. Discusses the organization, management, powers, and limitations of National Farm Loan Associations authorized under the provisions of the Federal farm loan act, which became operative on July 17, 1916.

Circular No. 2. How Farmers may form a National Farm Loan Association. This circular discusses the following topics: What the farm loan act promises; Farmers only need apply; Calling a neighborhood meeting; Appraising by a loan committee; Making an affidavit; Farmers only can be members; Farmers as shareholders; The associations as shareholders; Election of officers; How loans may be used; The farmer has little to do; Benefits to farmers; and Farmers may organize at once.

Circular No. 3. New Mortgages for Old. This circular is a story illustrating the practical application of the Federal farm loan act.

Circular No. 4. The Federal Farm Loan Act. The following subdivisions of subjects are enumerated in the act: Definitions; Federal Farm Loan Board; Federal Land Banks; Capital stock of Federal land banks; Government depositaries; National farm loan associations; Capital stock of National farm loan associations; National farm loan associations—special provisions; Appraisal; Powers of national farm loan associations; Restrictions on loans based on first mortgages; Powers of Federal land banks; Restrictions on Federal land banks; Agents of Federal land banks; Joint stock land banks; Powers of Federal Farm Loan Board; Applications for farm loan bonds; Issue of farm loan bonds; Form of farm loan bonds; Special provisions of farm loan bonds; Application of amortization and interest payments; Reserves and dividends of land banks; Reserve and dividends of national farm loan associations; Defaulted loans; Exemption from taxation; Investment in farm loan bonds; Examinations; Dissolution and appointment of receivers; State legislation; Penalties; Government deposits; Organization expenses; Limitation of court decisions; Repealing clause.

Circular No. 5. The Farm Loan Primer. In this circular may be found in brief form answers to the questions most frequently asked about the Federal farm loan act. The questions are asked from the point of view of the borrower and from that of prospective investors in farm loan bonds. An amortization table giving the required annual payments to discharge a $1,000 loan, bearing 5, 5, and 6 per cent interest, for 5-year periods, from 10 to 40 years, is included.

Circular No. 6. A circular descriptive of Farm Loan Bonds (superseded by Circular No. 8).

Circular No. 7. Killing off Mortgages. A description of the methods of amortization and the benefits to borrowers.

Circular No. 8. Four and one-half per cent Farm Loan Bonds. This is a circular descriptive of the Farm Loan Bonds issued by the Federal Land Banks under Federal authority and governmental supervision.

Borrowers' Bulletin A publication issued monthly for distribution among borrowers and prospective borrowers containing information of general interest to them concerning the operation of the Federal Farm Loan Act.

Bulletin No. 1. Land Title Registration by Certificate. A treatise on the Torrens system, simplified and adapted to constitutional requirements, along lines approved by United States Supreme Court decisions.

Method of distribution of general publications.-All publications, issued by this board, are distributed free of charge.

Annual and other periodical publications.-The Federal farm loan act provides that the Federal Farm Loan Board shall annually make a full report of its operations to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall cause the same to be printed for the information of the Congress.

Mailing list.-A mailing list, for the free distribution of publications, is maintained.

Correspondence.-Requests for publications should be addressed to the Secretary of the Federal Farm Loan Board, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.

BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.

Principal administrative officials.-Director, Assistant Director, Chief Engraver, Chief Clerk.

General information and duties.-The Bureau of Engraving and Printing designs, engraves, prints, and finishes all of the securities and other similar work of the Government, embracing United States notes, bonds, and certificates, certificates of indebtedness, national-bank notes, Federal 1eserve notes, internalrevenue, postage, and customs stamps, Treasury drafts and checks, disbursing officers' checks, licenses, commissions, patent and pension certificates, and portraits authorized by law of deceased Members of Congress and other public officials; also all postage stamps and all securities issued by the Bureau of Insular Affairs to our insular possessions.

Annual and other periodical publications.-(a) Annual Report of the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Contains report of the operations of the bureau, together with statistical information relative to work performed by it during the fiscal year for which issued and other fiscal years. Distributed free.

(b) Digest of Laws Relating to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, 1909. Issued for official use.

Mailing lists.-A mailing list is maintained at this bureau for annual report mentioned.

Correspondence.-Requests for annual report should be addressed to Director, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D. C.

BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.

Principal administrative officials.-Surgeon General, six Assistant Surgeons General, Chief Clerk, Director of the Hygienic Laboratory, Assistant Director. General information and duties.-The act approved August 14, 1912, changed the name of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service to the Public Health Service, and considerably increased its powers and functions. The bureau of the service at Washington comprises seven divisions, the operations of which are coordinated and are under the immediate supervision of the Surgeon General. The Division of Scientific Research conducts the scientific investigations of the service. Intensive studies of diseases of man, including hookworm disease, malaria, pellagra, trachoma, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis, of school, mental, and industrial hygiene, of rural sanitation, of public health administration, of water supplies and sewage, and of coastal waters are carried on from special headquarters in the field in cooperation with State and local health authorities, Technical and purely laboratory studies are conducted at the Hygienic Laboratory in Washington, at special field laboratories, and at the leprosy investiga tion station in Hawaii. Information thus obtained is disseminated through publications, correspondence, lectures, and conferences with health authorities concerning the results of field studies in their jurisdictions. Through the division the department enforces the act of July 1, 1902, "to regulate the sale of viruses, serums, etc." The Surgeon General is required by law to call an annual conference of State and Territorial health authorities, and special conferences may also be called at any time. For advice in respect to scientific investigations he may convene the advisory board of the Hygienic Laboratory.

Through the Division of Foreign and Insular Quarantine and Immigration the Surgeon General enforces the national quarantine laws and prepares the regulations relating thereto. He has control of 44 Federal quarantine stations in the United States, and others in the Philippines, Hawaii, and Porto Rico, and supervises the medical officers detailed in the offices of the American con

sular officers at foreign ports to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States. Under section 16 of the act approved February 5, 1917, he has supervision over the medical officers engaged in the physical and mental examinations of all arriving aliens.

Through the Division of Domestic (Interstate) Quarantine is enforced section 3 of the act of February 15, 1893, relating to the prevention of the spread of contagious or infectious diseases from one State or Territory into another. This includes the suppression of epidemics and the sanitation of interstate carriers. Since the beginning of the present war between the United States and Germany, the Service has had charge of sanitation of areas around military camps and cantonments.

The Division of Sanitary Reports and Statistics collects and publishes information regarding the prevalence and geographic distribution of diseases dangerous to the public health in the United States and foreign countries. Court decisions, laws, regulations, and ordinances pertaining to the public health are compiled, digested, and published. Its publications contain articles on subjects relating to the public health. This division issues the Public Health Reports (weekly) and Supplements to, and Reprints from, the Public Health Reports.

Through the Division of Marine Hospitals and Relief professional care is taken of sick and disabled seamen at 22 marine hospitals and 123 other relief stations. The beneficiaries include officers and crews of registered, enrolled, or licensed vessels of the United States and of the Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service; seamen employed on vessels of the Mississippi River Commission, and of the Engineer Corps of the Army; keepers and surfmen of the Coast Guard. A purveying depot for the purchase and issuance of supplies is maintained at Washington. Physical examinations of officers and seamen and keepers and surfmen of the Coast Guard and the examinations for the detection of color-blindness in masters, mates, and pilots are conducted through this division, and the medical evidence of disability in claims for benefits against the Coast Guard are reviewed.

In the Division of Personnel and Accounts are kept the records of the officers and of the expenditures of the appropriations.

Through the Miscellaneous Division the various service publications are issued, including the annual reports, public health reports, supplements, and reprints, public health bulletins, bulletins of the Hygienic Laboratory, and miscellaneous publications on health topics.

General publications.-Publications have been issued dealing with subjects included in the following general topics: Alaska (sanitary conditions), Anthrax, Antiseptics, fumigants and disinfectants, Antitoxins and toxins, Care of the baby, Bacteriological standards of milk and water, Bubonic plague, Cerebrospinal meningitis, Certified milk, Cholera, Climate and relation to tuberculosis, Common drinking cups, Common towels, Communicable diseases, Deaths and death rates, Statistical publications, Dengue fever, Dental instruments (sterilization), Diet with reference to pellagra, Digitalis, Diphtheria and diphtheria antitoxin, Diseases (prevention), Disinfectants and disinfection, Drug addicts, Drug intoxication, Drugs, Dysentery (amebic), Epinephrine, Ergot, Eskimos, Filariasis, Fleas, Flies, Food, Formaldehyde, Fumigation and disinfection, Gastro-enteritis, Goiter, Habit-forming drugs, Health and exercise, Health insurance, Health authorities, Hookworm disease, Hospitals, Ice, Impounded waters, Industrial hygiene, Industrial insurance, Infantile paralysis, Infant mortality, Care and feeding of infants, Inoculation, Interstate carriers (sanitation), Interstate quarantine, Intestinal infections, Leprosy, Lice, L. R. S. privy, Measles, Medical inspection of schools, Mice and rats, Milk, Morbidity statistics, Mortality statistics, Mosquitoes, Municipal ordinances on the prevention and spread of disease, Morbidity reports, Notifiable diseases, Nutritional diseases, Ophthalmia neonatorum, Open-air schools, Parasites of man, Pellagra, Pharmacopoeia of the United States (digest), Philippine Islands, Plague, Poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), Prevalence of diseases in the United States, Preventable diseases, Privies, Public health, Public health administration, Pulmonary tuberculosis, Pyorrhea alveolaris, Quarantine, Quarantine regulations, Rabies, Railroad sanitation of interstate carriers, Rat proofing, Rat extermination, Rats, Riggs disease (pyorrhea alveolaris), Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Rodents, Rural sanitation, Rural school sanitation, Sanitary legislation, Sanitary privies, Sanitary survey, Sanitation, Scarlet fever, School children, School hygiene, School sanitation, Screening to prevent malaria, Septic sore throat, Serums, toxins and analogous products, Sewage disposal, Shellfish pollution, Pollution of interstate