Excerpt from Transactions of the Fifteenth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, Washington, September 23-28, 1912, Vol. 4: Proceedings of Section V, Control of Infectious Diseases The afternoon session was called to order by the president, Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, who presided throughout the session. The following papers were presented in the symposium on sanitary measures against cerebrospinal meningitis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.