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COURT DECISIONS PERTAINING TO VENEREAL DISEASES.

COURT UPHOLDS DETENTION OF PERSON SUSPECTED OF BEING VENEREALLY INFECTED.

A woman who had been arrested and charged with conducting a house of ill fame was detained under instructions from the health department of the city of Los Angeles not to release her until she had submitted to an examination to determine whether she was venereally infected. She sought her release by habeas corpus proceedings. The health department had been furnished information warranting the conclusion that the woman conducted a house of ill fame, that she was an inmate thereof, and that she personally participated in the unlawful acts carried on therein.

The California District Court of Appeals, second district, division 1, held that this information furnished reasonable ground to believe that the woman was venereally infected, and that this was all that was necessary to authorize the health department to enforce quarantine measures against her.

1 Ex parte Clemente, 215 Pac. 698.

VENEREAL DISEASE ORDINANCE CONSTRUED.

One of the sections of the venereal disease ordinance of Wichita, Kans., provided that an infected person, not a prostitute, "may be released" from isolation or quarantine upon giving a bond or cash guaranty, the application for release being made to the city physician. The Supreme Court of Kansas has decided that the section in question does not compel the release of a person but authorizes it if in the judgment of the city physician the public welfare will not suffer thereby.

DEATHS DURING WEEK ENDED JULY 14, 1923.

Summary of information received by telegraph from industrial insurance companies for week ended July 14, 1923, and corresponding week of 1922. (From the Weekly Health Inder, July 17, 1923, issued by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.)

Death claims per 1,000 policies in force, annual rate.............

9.0

8, 616

9.0

Deaths from all causes in certain large cities of the United States during the week ended July 14, 1923, infant mortality, annual death rate, and comparison with corresponding week of 1922. (From the Weekly Health Index, July 17, 1923, issued by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.)

Annual rate per 1,000 population.

13

6:4

0

24

11.1

7.1

2

0

41

25

10.8

9.9

4

5

57

17

7.5

2

40

Deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births-an annual rate based on deaths under 1 year for the week and estimated births for 1922. Cities left blank are not in the registration area for births., Deaths for week ended Friday, July 13, 1923.

Ex parte Irby, 215 Pac. 449; Ex parte Hollowell, 215 Pac. 450.

Deaths from all causes in certain large cities of the United States during the week ended July 14, 1923, infant mortality, annual death rate, and comparison with corresponding week of 1922. (From the Weekly Health Index, July 17, 1923, issued by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.)—Continued.

PREVALENCE OF DISEASE.

No health department, State or local, can effectively prevent or control disease without knowledge of when, where, and under what conditions cases are occurring.

UNITED STATES.

CURRENT STATE SUMMARIES.

These reports are preliminary, and the figures are subject to change when later returns are received by the State health officers.