THE FIRST GERMAN MUNICIPAL EXPOSITION 623
insurance card, etc. and then fill out a card giving name, age, address, trade learned, sort of employment sought, date when last employed. The employer must fill out a card stating number of persons wanted, kind of employment, wages, other requirements, or remarks. The workmen wait in the office of the agency until an opportunity for employment is offered. Usually more than the required number of applicants are sent, in order that the employer may have some chance of selection.
A small special exhibit of the Association of German Employ- ment Agencies ("Verband deutscher Arbeitsnachweis") showed, among other things, the following table, which represents its activities :
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
Seeking positions .... Positions open
567,895 352.877
629,563 438,498
651,580
554,800
779,590
588, "574
1,086,874 502,070
Positions filled
273,008
32I.Q54
700,247
435.361
434.185
E. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY.
Hospitals. Preparation for the fight with those conditions which menace public health characterizes the German munici- palities. The improved conditions in modern hospitals are so advantageous as to be desirable, notwithstanding the increased cost. The pavilion system is considered by far the best. The model form would be a rectangle with the pavilions or cottages along one side for men, and along the other side for women. The pavilions across the front would be devoted to offices, laboratories, study rooms, consultation rooms, and operating rooms. Along the main axis would be the chapel, the kitchens and wash houses, the boiler and engine house, and at the back the morgue. On either side of the morgue, at the back of the rectangle, would be found pavilions for contagious diseases, for uncontrollable persons, and for disinfection. The main axis should lie in a north-and-south direction, that the windows may face east and west, and so have light and sunshine all day without the direct sunshine from the south. The separated pavilions are connected with each other, as well as with the operating
