1779. No person shall adulterate or cause to be adulterated any substance intended for food or any liquor intended for drink, or any drug or medicine; or shall offer for sale any such adulterated article.

1780. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell, barter or exchange the drug known as opium, except on the prescription of an accredited physician, and any person or persons who shall sell, barter or exchange said drug without such prescription shall, on conviction before any of the Recorders, be fined not more than twenty-five dollars, or suffer imprisonment for a period not exceeding thirty days.

1781. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to keep such an establishment as is commonly designated as "a joint" where opium is smoked or otherwise used. Any person or persons keeping such an establishment, as well as all those found therein, either as visitors through curiosity or in the act of using or smoking opium, shall be arrested, and, on conviction before any of the Recorders, be fined not less than ten dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both. 1782. No pharmacist, druggist, apothecary or other person shall refill more than once prescriptions containing opium or morphine, or preparations of either of them, or cocaine or chloral, in which the dose of opium shall exceed one-quarter grain, or of morphine one-twentieth of a grain, or of cocaine one-half of a grain, or of chloral ten grains, except upon the written order of a physician.

1783. No doctor, druggist or other person shall make, sell, put up, prepare or administer any prescription, decoction or medicine under any deceptive or fraudulent name, direction or pretence; nor shall any false or deceptive representation be made by any person to any other, as to the kind, quality, purpose or effect of any such or other drug, medicine, decoction, drink or other article offered or intended to be taken as food or medicine. 1784. No poisonous medicine, decoction or substance shall be held for sale, or sold, except for lawful purposes and with proper motives, and by persons competent to give the proper directions and precautions as to the use thereof; nor shall any bottle, box, parcel or receptacle thereof be delivered to any person unless the same is marked "Poison," nor to any person who the

party delivering the same has reason to think intends it for any illegal or improper use or purpose.

1785. No person shall make, offer or have for sale, or keep at any place of sale any "poisonous, unwholesome, deleterious, or adulterated drugs, medicines, or food." or in respect thereto omit any act or thing required, or do any act forbidden by any

or health regulation of this State applicable in any part of said city. 1786. No preparation of diphtheria antitoxine shall be offered or exposed for sale in this city unless the receptacle containing such preparation bear a label on which is placed the name and the address of the producer, and upon such label, or upon a circular accompanying such receptacle and enclosed with it in a sealed package, shall be printed or written the date of production and the value of the contents in antitoxine, as measured by some generally recognized standard.

Regulations Concerning Cadavers.

1787. The person having lawful control and management of any hospital, prison, morgue, asylum or other receptacle for corpses not interred, and every undertaker or other person having in his lawful possession any such corpse for keeping or burial, may deliver, and he is required to deliver, under the conditions specified in this section, every such corpse in their or his possession, charge, custody or control, not placed therein by relatives or friends, in the usual manner for keeping or burial, to the medical colleges of the State authorized by law tɔ confer the degree of doctor of medicine, and to any university of the State having a medical preparatory course of instructions, and the professors and teachers in every such college or university may receive any such corpse, and use it for the purpose of medical study. 1788. No corpse shall be so delivered or received if desired for in

terment by relatives or friends within forty-eight hours after death, or if known to have relatives or friends, without the assent of such relatives or friends; or of a person who shall have expressed a desire in his last illness that his body be interred, but the same shall be buried in the usual manner.

1789. If the remains of any person so delivered or received shall be subsequently claimed by any relative or friend, they shall be given up to such relative or friend for interment.

1790. Any person claiming any corpse or remains for interment, as provided in this section, may be required by the persons, colleges, university, or officer or agent thereof, in whose possession, charge or custody the same may be found, to present an affidavit stating that he is such relative or friend, and the facts and circumstances upon which the claim that he is such relative or friend is based, the expense of which affidavit shall be paid by the persons requiring it.

1791. If such person shall refuse to make such affidavit, such corpse or remains shall not be delivered to him, but he shall forfeit his claim and right to the same.

1792. Any such Medical College or University desiring to avail itself of the provisions of this regulation shall notify such persons having the control and management of the institutions and places heretofore specified, and such undertakers and other persons having any such corpse in their possession, custody or control in the county where such College or University is situated, and in any adjoining county in which no Medical College is situated, of such desire, and thereafter all such persons shall notify the proper officers of such College or University whenever there is any corpse in their possession, custody or control, which may be delivered to a Medical College or University under this section, and shall deliver the same to such College or University.

1793. If two or more medical colleges located in one county are entitled to receive corpses from the same county or adjoining counties, they shall receive the same in proportion to the number of matriculated students in each college.

1794. The professors and teachers in every college or university

receiving any corpse under this section shall dispose of the remains thereof, after they have served the purposes of medical science and study, in accordance with the regulations of the local Board of Health where the college or university is situated.

1795. Every person neglecting to comply with or violating any provision of this section shall forfeit to the Local Board of Health where such non-compliance or violation occurred, the sum of twenty-five dollars for every such non-compliance or violation, to be sued for by the health officer of such place, and when

recovered to be paid over, less the costs and expenses of the action, to such board for its use and benefit.

1796. The governors, keepers, wardens, managers or persons having lawful control and management of any hospital, prison, almshouse, asylum, morgue or receptacle for corpses not interred in the counties.

1797. Every undertaker or other person having in his lawful possession any such corpses for keeping or burial, may deiiver, under the conditions specified in this regulation, every such corpse in their or his possession, charge, custody or control, not placed therein by relatives or friends in the usual manner for keeping or burial, to the medical colleges or schools authorized by law to confer either the degree of doctor of medicine, or the degree of doctor of dental surgery, and to all other colleges or schools incorporated under the laws of the State in said counties for the purpose of teaching medicine, anatomy or surgery, and to any university in either of said counties having a medical preparatory course of instruction, and the professors and teachers in every such college, school or university, may receive such corpses and use the same for the purposes of medical, anatomical or surgical science and study.

CHAPTER XI.

LAWS AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING

FOODS.

N. B. The Acts of the State of Louisiana are obligatory. The Regulations of the State Board marked by a star are also obligatory. The other Regulations are recommendatory and educational. Each Local Board will adopt those which it thinks best suited for its local conditions.

An Act to prevent the Adulteration of Articies use! as Food; to prevent the sale of unwholesome and tamted provisions, the slaughtering of cattle, etc., for food when m an unhealthy condition, and to prevent the landling of diseased animals within certain prescribed limits

1799. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to adulterate to sell or offer for sale in the State of Louisiana any article of food and sustenance, knowing the same to be adulterated.

1800. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell or offer for sale any tainted provisions or stale vegetables, or other articles of food, the same being in a condition of decomposition, or unfit for food.

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1803. SEC. 5. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for the first offence shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five ($25) dollars or three (3) months' imprisonment, and for a second or subsequent offence shall be punishable with a fine of fifty ($50) dollars, or not less than six (6) months' imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 6. The Secretary of State, immediately after the passage of

this act, shall notify all sheriffs, chiefs of police and other executive officers throughout the State to take cognizance thereof and enforce its provisions.