INFLUENZA-PNEUMONIA AS INFLUENCED BY DISHWASHING IN THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.

Colonel Cumming extends the trail he blazed in the matter of in-sanitary dishwashing. He finds in institutions that wash by hand in lukewarm water that there was three times the incidence of influenza-pneumonia that there was in institutions with steam dishwashing. His conclusions are based on an institution population of 252,186.