7 JULY 1917, Page 24

Public Health Nursiny. By Mary Sewall Gardner. (Macmillan and Co.

7s. tkl. not.)—Miss Gardner, whose name is followed on the title-page by the unexpected " R.N."—presumably for " Registered Nurse "—has written an interesting and useful book on a subject with which thousands of our women readers are now practically acquainted. Miss Gardner is, of course, mainly con- cerned with what wo should call Poor Law infirmaries, district nurses, and school clinics ; but the main problems of nursing are the same everywhere.