dressings and garbage of every description at any hour, day or night. They are consumed without causing us any trouble whatever. We certainly find it a great comfort not to have any garbage, not even a garbage box or barrel on the premises. Our pails and baskets are brought down to the boiler room twice daily, and there immediately emptied into the burner. The pails are scalded and cleansed, so that we keep everything sweet and clean.” From a New England hospital we had the following report: “For four years we have used a crematory for disposing of soiled dressings, and have found it most satisfactory. It has gas burners and could be placed in a bath room if it is large. With such a crematory on each floor dressings can be burned immediately, and thus the objectionable dressing or refuse pail be dispensed with. A careful nurse will turn out the gas after the dressings are dry and ignited, and the expense of the apparatus will thus be very slight.” Through the courtesy of the Morse-Boulger Co., who have installed crematories in a considerable number of large hospitals in the east and in some smaller institutions as well, we are able to present a cut of a crematory for a small hospital. [Illustration: GARBAGE CREMATORY] [Sidenote: Garbage Crematories] The crematories are built in many sizes to conform to the location. They provide a medium for the disposal on the premises with the utmost rapidity and economy of every class of waste produced in a hospital. They can be operated with any available fuel and all are provided with perfectly efficient means of consuming the smoke and inflammable gases thrown off by the burning material. These crematories can be placed in the basement or cellar if necessary and connected directly with the chimney or smoke pipes, from the heaters or steam boilers of a building, or can be placed outside when deemed desirable. In order to ascertain some facts concerning the working of these crematories, letters of inquiry were also sent to a number of hospitals in which the Morse-Boulger crematories are in use, and without exception the reports were most favorable. The following from one of the largest Philadelphia hospitals is characteristic of all the reports received and goes to show that there is no risk of unsatisfactory working in such an apparatus: