The incidence of pneumonia as recorded in the National Health Survey is presented in this report in relation to population and socio-economic factors, together with limited information on medical care. The data cover a period (1934-36) during which the mortality from the disease was neither unusually high nor unusually low in comparison with the years immediately before and after.
LTHOUGH more complete reports on the subject are in preparation,2 it seems appropriate at this time to summarize the results of the National Health Survey bearing on the adequacy of urban housing and on the relation of housing to illness and accidents. The presentation will be in the form of simple illustrative charts3 and such discussion of them as is necessary for clarity. The National Health Survey was conducted from November, 1935 to March, 1936 for the purpose of obtaining information on serious illness, accidents, impairments, and medical care received, in relation to social and economic factors. Manifestly, one of the most important of these factors is housing, and, accordingly, certain information on housing was obtained and has been related to the illness record. The survey was made within the city limits (1930) of eighty-three cities in eighteen States (and in a limited number of rural areas), the cities being chosen to be reasonably representa-
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