The main areas of fiberglass production are compound and glass-making shops, electric furnace shops, as well as unwinding, spinning and finishing departments of weaving production.

Among the residents of Almetyevsk and the surrounding areas from 1957 to 1959. the largest number of injuries relates to domestic (56.2%), followed by industrial (21.4%), transport (13.5%), street (7%), agricultural (0.9%) and others (1%).

Research into active immunization against poliomyelitis began about fifty years ago. During this period, several types of killed vaccines have been proposed and tested. So, Krause (1910) proposed phenol vaccine for active immunization, Brody and Park (1936) - formol vaccine, Kalmet (1937) - castor acid vaccine and others. However, these vaccines did not meet expectations and turned out to be ineffective (M. P. Chumakov et al., K. A. Vinokurov, A. Peyp, D. S. Futer et al.).

he name of Doctor of Medicine Konstantin Sergeevich Dyakonov is little known to wide medical circles. Meanwhile, he was the first to establish the fact that choline is an integral component of lecithin.

Chronic diseases of the pancreas often remain outside the field of vision of practitioners, and if they are recognized, they are usually considered only as complications or concomitant diseases in various well-known dyspeptic syndromes; often they are found only by chance, already on the operating table or at autopsy.

VA Franke, an employee of the Leningrad Scientific Research Institute of Labor Protection of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, reported on the effect of the electromagnetic field on the human body and the danger of contact injury when using high-frequency currents. At industrial enterprises and research institutions, it is increasingly necessary to use such devices and equipment, the maintenance of which is associated with the stay of people in an electromagnetic field of high and ultrahigh frequency (high and ultra high frequency).

The neuropsychiatric disorders in kidney diseases were addressed by prof. L. A. Oganesyan (Yerevan).

The congress was devoted mainly to the hygienic problems of Siberia in connection with the development of a huge new industrial and municipal construction.

Prof. N.I. Krakovsky is known not only as a major and versatile surgeon, but also as a prominent organizer of public health - for many years he has headed the surgical service of the RSFSR. Therefore, the book under review, written by him together with Yu. Ya. Gritzman, is of considerable interest to Soviet surgeons.

Reverse ophthalmoscopy is usually performed with hand-held ophthalmoscopes, and it is necessary to catch an image of the fundus in the air, which is very difficult for novice ophthalmologists to do.