SEC. 10. Hereby repealing all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith. [Ordinance No. 959, adopted Sept. 1, 1911, amending secs. 12 and 28 of ordinance No. 746, adopted June 11, 1907.]

BROOKLINE, MASS.

GARBAGE AND REFUSE-CARE AND DISPOSAL.

Art. III. Waste Material-Garbage.

SECTION 1. All waste material set out for removal by the town shall be kept in separate receptacles.

SEC. 2. One or more of such receptacles shall be used exclusively for garbage or swill and shall be water-tight, have tight-fitting covers, and be kept clean and free from deposits of garbage. (An underground garbage receptacle is urgently recommended.)

SEC. 3. A second receptacle or receptacles, preferably made of iron, shall be used exclusively for ashes, tin cans, bottles, and other incombustible waste.

SEC. 4. A third separate set of receptacles shall be used exclusively for dry combustible waste, such as paper, old shoes, house sweepings, and such other waste material as it is customary for the town to remove.

SEC. 5. No person shall overhaul the contents of receptacles for waste material set upon the sidewalks to be removed by the town.

SEC. 6. No person shall throw upon the sidewalk, or into any public street or catchbasin, any paper, tin can, house sweepings, lawn rakings, old shoes, orange peel, banana skin, dead animal, or other waste material. [Ordinance board of health, adopted Nov. 6, 1911.]

LAWRENCE, MASS.

BREAD-EACH LOAF TO BE WRAPPED.

REGULATION 85. All bread offered or intended for sale shall be suitably wrapped, each loaf separately, in parafin paper in such manner as to completely protect the bread from dust and dirt. [Regulation board of health, adopted July 1, 1911.]

MORRISTOWN, N. J.

KEEPING OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS-CHICKENS, FOWLS, AND POULTRY.

No person, firm, or corporation shall hereafter keep or maintain any poultry, fowls, or chickens in houses, pens, coops, or runs within a distance of 30 feet from any dwelling house, nor within 12 feet of any street fence line without a written permit from the board of health, and all chicken houses, pens, coops, and runs must be kept in a sanitary condition. Any person, firm, or corporation violating this ordinance, shall, on conviction thereof, pay a fine or penalty of not less than $10 for each offense: Provided, however, That this ordinance shall not apply to, nor be enforceable against, any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of the buying and selling of poultry, fowls, and chickens in the regular course of trade. [Ordinance board of health, adopted Dec. 11, 1911.]

PIQUA, OHIO.

PRIVIES AND CESSPOOLS, CLEANING OF, AND REMOVAL OF NIGHT SOIL-STABLES AND MANURE, CARE AND DISPOSAL OF.

SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to remove and haul in and through said city any night soil, contents of privy vaults, cesspools, and sinks, and other offensive matter, except in carts or wagons the beds of which are water-tight, or in water-tight barrels, such carts, wagons, or barrels to be provided with air-tight lids. covers, or valves which will prevent the escape of offensive odors therefrom, and all such lids, tops, covers, or valves shall be shut and securely fastened when any of the matter aforesaid is being removed or hauled in such carts, wagons, or barrels, and all such wagons, carts, or barrels shall be kept thoroughly cleansed and disinfected and shall not be used when otherwise.

SEC. 2. That all privy vaults after being emptied, also all night soil and the contents of sinks, privies, vaults, and cesspools and all noxious substances, shall, before removal or exposure, be disinfected and rendered inoffensive by the person or persons removing the same.

SEC. 3. That no persons shall empty nor attempt to empty any vault, sink, or cesspool in the city of Piqua, except in pursuance to a permit therefor first received from the health officer of said city.

SEC. 4. That no privy vault, closet, or cesspool shall be hereafter constructed or permitted to remain on any premises accessible to a public sewer, except when properly connected with the sewer. In cases where such privy vault, closet, or cesspool now exists the same shall be discontinued as soon as they become filled or foul so that cleaning is necessary.

SEC. 5. That the owner, lessee, tenant, and occupant of any stable, stall, or apartment or barn or poultry yard in which any horse, cattle, or any other animal or fowl shall be kept, or any place in which manure or any liquid discharge of such animals or fowls shall collect or accumulate, shall cause said manure and liquid discharge to be placed and kept in closed bins securely covered at all times to protect it from flies as much as practicable, and said manure and liquid discharge shall be hauled away at least once a month during the interval between the 1st day of April and the 1st day of December, or at such more frequent intervals as the health officer shall order or direct, and all such stables, stalls, and apartments, drains, yards, and appurtenances thereof shall at all times be kept in a cleanly and sanitary condition, and no offensive smell shall be allowed to escape therefrom.

SEC. 6. That any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not more than $50 and costs of prosecution. shall take effect and be if force from and after the earliest period allowed by law. [Ordinance adopted July 3, 1911.]

SEC. 7. This ordinance

TACOMA, WASH.

MILK-PRODUCTION, CARE, AND SALE.

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, exchange, or deliver, offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell or deliver, within the city of Tacoma

(1) Any unwholesome milk or cream; or

(2) Any milk containing less than 8.75 per cent of milk solids, exclusive of fat, or less than 3.25 per cent of fat, except in the manner and under the conditions prescribed for the sale of skimmed milk; or

(3) Any skimmed milk except under the name of "skimmed milk" and in cans or other receptacles plainly stamped or marked in some conspicuous place with the words "Skimmed milk"; and every person who shall sell or serve, or keep for sale or for the purpose of serving in any hotel, restaurant, or boarding house, any skimmed milk, shall display in a conspicuous place in the room where the same is sold or served, a placard bearing the words in large letters "Skimmed milk sold here"; or (4) Any cream containing less than 18 per cent of fat.

SEC. 2. Milk or cream shall be deemed to be unwholesome in the following cases: (1) When any foreign substance has been added thereto or placed therein for the purpose of thickening, coloring, or preserving the same; or

(2) When it contains any pathogenic bacteria or germs, pus cells, or blood cells; or (3) When it contains more than 200,000 bacteria or germs of all kinds to the cubic centimeter; or

(4) When any water has been added thereto; or

(5) When any part of it has been drawn from a cow fed on refuse or unwholesome food; or

(6) When any part of it has been drawn from an unhealthy or dirty cow, or cow kept in an unclean shed, or has been milked by unclean milkers; or

(7) When any part of it has been contaminated; or

(8) When any part of it has been exposed to any contagious or infectious disease; or (9) When any part of it has been drawn from a cow within 10 days before or 5 days after parturition, or in any case before such cow is free from fever.

SEC. 3. Skimmed milk is hereby defined to be any wholesome milk from which the cream has been removed or which contains less than 3.25 per cent of butter fat. SEC. 4. It shall be unlawful to keep or maintain a dairy within the city of Tacoma. The maintenance of a dairy is hereby defined to be the keeping of more than two cows and selling the whole or any part of the milk therefrom.

SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or deliver, offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell or deliver, any milk or cream in the city of Tacoma without having a permit so to do duly issued by the health officer of said city, or without having such permit displayed in a conspicuous manner in his place of busi

ness, or without having the number of such permit and the name of the owner thereof printed in a conspicuous manner on both sides of every wagon or other vehicle used for the sale or delivery of milk or cream. Application for a permit shall be made in writ ing and upon blanks provided by said health officer for that purpose, on which shall be stated the name of the applicant, the location of his place or places of business, the number of cows, if any, owned or controlled by such applicant, the location of any dairy or dairies other than his own from which he secures or proposes to sell milk, the number and description of all wagons or other vehicles to be used by the applicant in his business; and no permit shall be granted to said applicant by said health officer until the city milk inspector shall have inspected the cows owned or controlled by the applicant, and the cows of all other persons, if any, from whom he obtains or intends to obtain milk or cream; the stables or barns in which such cows are kept, the food upon which such cows are fed, and their water supply and the apparatus used or to be used by said applicant in caring for, gathering and distributing milk or cream, and shall have certified to said health officer that said cows are in healthy condition, apparently free from disease, and that the stables or barns in which such cows are kept, the appliances used or to be used in caring for, gathering, or distributing milk or cream are in a clean and sanitary condition, and that the food upon which said cows are fed is clean and wholesome.

If, after the issuance of any permit, the applicant shall change the location of his place of business, notice thereof shall be given forthwith to the health officer.

Such permit shall be issued without cost and shall remain in force for a period of one year.

In case additions are made from time to time to the herd of cows belonging to the holder of any permit, or to any of the herds of cows from which he obtains milk, it shall be his duty at such time to immediately report such fact to the health officer, in order that such cows may be inspected.

SEC. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell milk or cream, or offer it for sale in any booth, stand, store, or market place in the city of Tacoma without first registering his name and place of business in the book kept by the inspector of milk of said city for that purpose.

SEC. 7. It shall be unlawful for any retail or wholesale dealer in milk in the city of Tacoma to sell, offer, or expose for sale any milk or cream unless the same shall have been procured by him from a dairy or dairies which have been duly inspected and have complied with the provisions of this ordinance.

SEC. 8. It shall be unlawful for any person to ship or bring into the city of Tacoms for the purpose of selling or offering for sale, or sell or offer for sale therein, for human food, any milk or cream unless the cans, vessels, and receptacles used in handling the same, and all packages, refrigerators, compartments, or other places where such milk or cream is kept, stored, or handled, shall be kept and maintained clean and neat and free from the presence of any article or thing of any kind likely to contaminate or injure the quality or sweetness of such milk or cream, and unless the cans or other receptacles in which such milk or cream is kept shall be used for such purposes only, and shall be thoroughly sterilized with boiling water or live steam each time they are used; and unless all pouring cans, dippers, or other vessels used in handling or delivering such milk shall be scalded and sterilized daily. All bottles in which milk or cream is distributed shall be washed clean and sterilized immediately before they are used and sealed immediately after they are filled.

SEC. 9. All milk brought or shipped into the city of Tacoma to be sold for human food shall immediately after being drawn from the cow be aerated and cooled to a temperature of not to exceed 60° F., and until such milk or the cream therefrom is delivered to the consumer it shall be kept at a temperature not to exceed that above specified.

SEC. 10. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell milk or cream at retail in the city of Tacoma on and after the 1st day of February, 1912, in any manner whatsoever except in glass bottles or other receptacles securely sealed, which milk or cream shall be bottled or placed in said receptacles at the dairy where it is produced, or at a milk depot, storeroom, or other place kept exclusively for the purpose of storing and handling milk and maintained in a cleanly and sanitary condition. In no case shall milk or cream be bottled in the wagon or vehicle in which it is being conveyed or from which it is being distributed: Provided, however, That this section is not intended to prohibit restaurants, hotels, or boarding houses from serving milk or cream to guests in any other manner.

The sale of milk or cream at retail is hereby defined to be the sale of milk or cream in quantities of 1 gallon or less.

SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the milk inspector to inspect from time to time all dairies selling or supplying milk for sale in the city of Tacoma. He shall inspect the

cows, the stables, drainage, ventilation, food, water, yards, pasture, methods of milking, and all matters connected with the care and management of such dairies. He shall inspect all places and vehicles in or from which milk or cream is sold, offered or exposed for sale, kept, stored, delivered or disposed of, including restaurants, hotels, and boarding houses, and all vessels, cans, receptacles, refrigerators, compartments of any store, building, or other place used in storing, handling, delivering, or disposing of milk or cream in the city of Tacoma, to ascertain whether the provisions of this ordinance are being complied with, and report to the board of health any violation thereof. In order to make such inspection he shall have the right to enter and shall have free access to any building, establishment, vehicle, or place where such milk is produced, being transported, stored, kept, or offered for sale, and he shall have the right to take samples of milk or cream therefrom in quantities not to exceed 1 quart each for the purpose of inspecting, testing, or analyzing the same.

SEC. 12. Nothing in this ordinance shall be so construed as to prohibit the sale of what is commonly known as buttermilk, provided the same is produced from pure, healthful, wholesome, and uninfected milk.

SEC. 13. The word "person" wherever used in this ordinance shall be held and construed to mean any person, firm, or corporation, and the act of an agent or servant shall be deemed to be the act of the principal or employer.

SEC. 14. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding $100 or imprisoned in the city jail for a period not exceeding 30 days.

SEC. 15. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. [Ordinance adopted Jan. 3, 1912.]

REPORTS TO THE SURGEon generalL, PUBLIC HEALTH AND MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE.

CEREBROSPINAL MENINGITIS IN TEXAS.

A report by Passed Asst. Surg. R. H. von Ezdorf.

Referring to bureau telegram dated January 16, 1912, directing me to proceed immediately to Dallas, Tex., by way of Austin, and to confer with the State health authorities relative to the prevalence of cerebrospinal meningitis, I have the honor to make the following report:

DALLAS.

The cases reported in Dallas up to January 22, 1912, were as follows:

According to color and sex, these cases were distributed as follows:

The cases were widely scattered and occurred in all parts of the city. In 10 or 12 families more than 1 case had occurred.

A visit was made to the city hospital of Dallas, which since January 7, 1912, had been used exclusively for the treatment of cerebro