_Tuberculosis Among Prisoners._—That 16,000 persons infected with tuberculosis are annually sent out into society by the prisons of this country is a statement attributed to Dr. J. B. Ransom, physician to Clinton Prison, New York. In the course of a recent address Dr. Ransom showed the good results flowing from the special care in New York prisons of those with tuberculosis. In a similar connection the Lincoln, (Neb.) News says: “Not long ago the statement is alleged to have been made by the warden of the western penitentiary of Pennsylvania that approximately 300 out of 1,300 inmates of that institution were suffering from tuberculosis. In private conversation, says the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, the warden of one of the eastern state penitentiaries expressed his belief that six per cent of the inmates of his institution had tuberculosis in some degree. “Only twenty-one prisons in fifteen states and territories have provided special places for the treatment of their tuberculosis prisoners and these have accommodations for only 800 patients. In three-fourths of the major prisons and in practically all of the jails of the country the tuberculosis prisoner is allowed freely to infect his fellow prisoners, very few restrictions being put upon his habits.” * * * * * _A French Study of Vagrants and How To Treat Them._—An interesting classification of so-called “non-producers,” or vagabonds, has been made by Etienne Flandid, who has recently conducted a study of the criminal classes of France. M. Flandid has made his studies the basis of a report which is being considered by the French senate.