than the secretary, shall not in any one year exceed the sum of $1,200. All printing required by the board in the performance of its duties shall be performed by the State printer upon the order of the president and secretary of said board, and the cost thereof shall be charged against the appropriation of said board.

SEC. 4. There are added to the statutes seven new sections, to read:

State sanitary inspector.-SEc. 1408m-1. In addition to the officials and appointees provided by sections 1404, 1406, and 1022-4 of the statutes, the State board of health is hereby empowered to provide for and establish in connection with the present public-health organization a State sanitary inspector.

Right of inspection.—SEc. 1408-2. It shall be the duty of the sanitary inspector to assist in promoting the work of the State board of health in such manner as the board may direct, to the end that the laws and rules adopted by said board for the preservation of the public health may be strictly enforced in the various parts of the State. The inspector shall have the same right of inspection in regard to all! matters affecting the public health as has been or may be conferred upon the State or local boards of health.

Duties of inspector.-SEC. 1408m-3. The sanitary inspector shall, under the direction of the board and with full authority to act for the board, make thorough and complete investigations of nuisances, sources of sickness, infectious or contagious diseases, water supplies, and sewerage disposal systems, the sanitary condition of public buildings, jails, schoolhouses, school grounds, hotels, and such other work as is found necessary to improve the general sanitary and hygienic conditions. The inspector shall make special investigations concerning the prevalence of tuberculosis in any locality. He shall assist the State board of health in enforcing the laws and rules adopted by the board for the prevention, control, and reporting of tuberculosis. Reports and recommendations.—SEC. 1408m-4. The inspector shall immediately after the completion of an investigation report in writing to the secretary of the State board of health a complete account of the essential facts disclosed by the investigation, together with the recommendations made and the work done to better safeguard the public health.

Qualifications.-SEC. 1408m-5. The sanitary inspector shall be a medical practitioner in good standing, holding a Wisconsin license, and must possess such other qualifications as the State board of health may determine are necessary in order to successfully carry on the work.

Compensation; expenses.-SEC. 1408m-6. The compensation of the inspector appointed under the provisions of section 1408m-1 to 1408m-7, inclusive, shall be fixed by the State board of health. All actual expenses incurred by the inspector in the discharge of his official duties shall be paid from the fund herein provided upon verified and itemized accounts to be audited and paid as the expenses of other State officers and employees are audited and paid.

Appropriation.-SEC. 1408m-7. There is annually appropriated to the State board of health and vital statistics, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $20,600, or such part thereof as may be necessary, said appropriation to be in lieu of all other appropriations now provided for by law for said board, and all other laws or parts of laws appropriating money to the State board of health. and vital statistics, in so far as the same appropriate money to the said board, are: repealed.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES, RULES, AND REGULATIONS

PERTAINING TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

ALEXANDRIA, VA.

Births and Deaths-Registration of (Ordinance Adopted July 23, 1912).

SECTION 25. It shall be the duty of the health officer to keep a record of all births and deaths in the city, in accordance with the following provisions:

It shall be unlawful for any person to act as an accoucher or midwife in the city of Alexandria, without first obtaining a license from the commissioner of revenue of said city to practice midwifery.

Such license shall be issued by the commissioner of revenue as other licenses are issued upon the payment of the sum of $1 to the treasurer of the city of Alexandria and upon producing a certificate signed by the health officer to the effect that the applicant has been examined by him and is deemed qualified to perform the services required in such cases.

And no person shall be deemed eligible to sign any birth certificates in the city of Alexandria unless such person shall hold a certificate from the State board of medical examiners, or a license to practice medicine, surgery, or midwifery, as above provided. SEC. 26. The body of any person whose death occurs in the State shall not be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, cremated, removed, or otherwise disposed of, or to be held pending further disposition, more than 72 hours after death or until a permit for burial, removal, or other disposition thereof shall have been properly issued by the health officer.

SEC. 27. No such burial or removal permit shall be issued by the health officer until a complete and satisfactory certificate of death has been filed with him as hereinafter provided. That when a dead body is brought into the city for burial, the transit permit which accompanies such body shall be filed with the health officer, who shall note the date and place of burial on such permit and forward the same to the State registrar.

SEC. 28. The stillborn children and those dead at birth shall be registered as births and also as deaths, and a certificate of both birth and death shall be filed with the local registrar, in the usual form and manner, the certificate of birth to contain, in place of the name of the child, the word "stillbirth." The medical certificate of the cause of death shall be signed by the attending physician, if any, and shall state the cause of the death as “stillborn," with the cause of the stillbirth, if known, whether a premature birth, and, if born prematurely, the period of uterine gestation, in months, if known; and a burial or removal permit in the usual form shall be required. Midwives shall not sign certificate of death for stillborn children; but such cases, and stillbirths occurring without attendance of either physicians or midwife, shall be treated as deaths without medical attendance, as provided for in section 30 of this act SEC. 29. The certificate of death shall be of the United States standard form as approved by the Bureau of the Census, and shall contain the following items:

1. Place of death, including State, county, township, city, the ward, street, and house number. If in a hospital or other institution, the name of the same to be given instead of the street and house number. If in an industrial camp, the name of the camp to be given.

2. Full name of decedent. If an unnamed child, the surname preceded by "unnamed."

3. Sex.

4. Color or race, as white, black (negro or negro descent), Italian, Chinese, Japanese, or other.

5. Conjugal condition, as single, married, widowed, or divorced.

6. Date of birth, including year, month, and day.

7. Age in years, months, and days. If less than one day, the hours and minutes. 8. Occupation to be reported of any person who had any remunerative employment, women as well as men, stating (a) trade, profession, or particular kind of work; (b) general nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed (or employer).

9. Birth place, State or foreign country.

10. Name of father.

11. Birthplace of father, State or foreign country.

12. Maiden name of mother.

13. Birthplace of mother, State or foreign country.

14. Name and address of informant.

15. Official signature of registrar, with the date when certificate was filed, register number.

16. Date of death, year, month, and day.

17. Statement of medical attendance on decedent, fact and time of death, time last seen alive, and cause of death, with contributory cause (secondary) or complication, if any, and duration of each, and if attributed to dangerous or insanitary conditions of employment; signature and address of physician or official making the medical certificate.

18. Length of residence (for hospitals, institutions, transients, or recent residents) at place of death, or in the State.

19. Place of burial or removal, date of burial.

20. Signature and address of an undertaker.

The personal and statistical particulars (items 1 to 13) shall give the name and address of the informant, who may be any competent person acquainted with the facts.

The statement of facts relating to the disposition of the body shall be signed by the undertaker, or person acting as such.

SEC. 30. In case of death occurring without medical attendance, the undertaker or other person acting as such shall notify the health officer, and when so notified the health officer shall inform a member of the board of health and refer the case to him for immediate investigation and certification prior to issuing a permit; provided that if such member of the board of health does not within 24 hours certify such death, the health officer is authorized to make the certificate and return from the statement of relatives or other persons having adequate knowledge of the facts; provided further, that if the death is caused by unlawful or suspicious means, the health officer shall then refer the case to the coroner for his investigation and certification and the coroner shall state in his certificate the name of the disease causing the death, or if from external causes, (1) the means of death, (2) whether accidental, suicidal, or homicidal.

SEC. 31. The undertaker or person acting as undertaker shall be responsible for obtaining and filing the certificate of death with the health officer and for securing a burial or removal permit prior to any disposition of the body, except as otherwise provided in this act. He shall obtain personal and statistical particulars and the medical certificate of the cause of death, and other particulars necessary to complete the record as specified in sections 29 and 30.

SEC. 32. The undertaker shall deliver the burial permit to the sexton or person in charge of the place of burial before interring or otherwise disposing of the body. If

the interment or other disposition of the body is to be made within the State, the wording of the burial permit may be limited to a statement by the health officer, over his signature, that a satisfactory certificate of death having been filed with him permission is granted to inter, remove, or otherwise dispose of the deceased.

Each sexton or person in charge of any burial ground shall indorse upon the permit the date of the interment, over his signature, and shall return all permits so indorsed to the health officer within 10 days from date of interment. Every sexton of a public cemetery shall keep a record of all interments made in the premises under his charge, stating the name of the deceased person, place of death, date of burial, and name and address of the undertaker.

SEC. 33. That all births that occur in the State shall be immediately registered as hereinafter provided.

That it shall be the duty of the attending physician or midwife to file a certificate of birth, properly and completely filled out, giving all the particulars required by this act, with the health officer, within 10 days after date of birth.

That the certificate of birth shall contain the following items:

1. Place of birth, including State, county, magisterial district, town, or city. If in a city, the ward, street, and house number; if in a hospital or other institution, the name of the same to be given instead of street and house number.

2. Full name of child. If the child dies without a name, before the certificate is filed, enter the words "died unnamed." If the living child has not been named at the date of filing certificate of birth, the space for full name of child is to be left blank to be filled out subsequently by supplemental report, as hereinafter provided. 3. Sex of child.

4. Whether a twin, triplet, or other plural birth. A separate certificate shall be required for each child in case of plural birth, giving number of child in order of birth.

5. Whether legitimate or illegitimate.

6. Full name of father, except for illegitimate children.

7. Residence of father.

8. Color or race of father.

9. Birthplace of father, State or foreign country.

10. Age of father at last birthday, in years.

11. Occupation of father.

12. Maiden name of mother.

13. Birthplace of mother, State or foreign country.

14. Age of mother at last birthday, in years.

15. Occupation of mother.

16. Number of child of this mother, and number of children of this mother now living.

17. Born at full term.

18. The certificate of attending physician or midwife as to attendance at birth, including statement of year, month, and day and hour of birth, and whether the child was alive or dead at birth. This certificate shall be signed by the attending physician or midwife, with date of signature and address; if there is no physician or midwife in attendance, then the father or mother of the child, householder or owner of the premises, or manager or superintendent of public or private institution, or other competent person, whose duty it shall be to notify the local registrar of such birth, as required by section 33 of this act.

19. Exact date of filing in office of local registrar, attested by his official signature, and registered number of birth, as hereinafter provided.

It shall be the duty of the health officer to supply blank forms of certificates to such persons as require them, and he shall carefully examine each certificate of birth or death, when presented for record, and if same is incomplete or unsatisfactory, it shall

be his duty to withhold issuing burial or removal permit until same is corrected or explained. He shall number consecutively the certificate of birth and death in two separate series, giving date of each birth and death, beginning with the number one for the first birth and first death in each calendar year. He shall also make a complete and accurate copy of each birth and death certificate registered by him in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall within 15 days after the end of each calendar year transmit said book to the clerk of the corporation court to be preserved by the clerk as a permanent record.

SEC. 34. That any physician who was in medical attendance upon any deceased person at the time of death who shall willfully neglect or refuse to make out and deliver to the undertaker, sexton, or other person in charge of the interment, removal, or other disposition of the body, upon request, the medical certificate of the cause of death, hereinbefore provided for, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $50. And if any physician shall knowingly make a false certification of the cause of death, in any case, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $200.

Any physician or midwife in attendance upon a case of confinement, or any other person charged with responsibility for reporting births in the order named in section 30 of the act, who shall willfully neglect or refuse to file proper certificate of birth with the local registrar within the time required by this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $1 nor more than $10.

And any undertaker, sexton, or other person acting as undertaker, who shall inter, remove, or otherwise dispose of the body of a deceased person without having received a burial or removal permit as herein provided shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $1 nor more than $10. And any other person or persons who shall willfully violate any of the provisions of this act, or shall willfully neglect to perform the duties imposed upon them by the provisions of this act, or shall furnish false information to a physician, undertaker, midwife, or informant for the purpose of making incorrect certification of births or deaths, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $100.

BAYONNE, N. J.

Nuisances-Definition of (Regulation Board of Health Adopted June 20, 1912). SEC. 2. Nuisances are hereby defined and declared and shall include and embrace: 1. The placing or depositing, or allowing to remain in or upon any street or public place, or in or upon any open lot or public or private property, any dead animals or any part of the same, or any offal or garbage, or any carrion or putrid meat, or manure or compost (stable manure used as a fertilizer, or kept in manure piles built as hereinafter directed, excepted), or any foul or offensive or obnoxious substances whatsoever. 2. The throwing upon, or allowing to flow from any premises upon any street or public place, open lot or public or private property, or the allowing to collect upon the surface of any premises any waste water, dirty water, slops, stable drainage, liquid filth, overflow from cesspools or privy vaults, or any offensive liquid matter whatsoever.

3. Any full, foul, or leaky privy vault or cesspool or other receptacle for filth; also any privy vault, cesspool, or catch basin which is beneath any dwelling or other building, or is attached to the foundation wall of any dwelling or other building.

4. Allowing or permitting any night soil, garbage, or any offensive or decomposing solid or fluid matter or substance to leak, or ooze, or escape from any cart, wagon, or vessel in which the same may be conveyed or carried.