CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE, AND SMALLPOX-Continued.

Reports Received from June 28 to Oct. 17, 1913-Continued.

CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE, AND SMALLPOX-Continued.

Reports Received from June 28 to Oct. 17, 1913—Continued.

SANITARY LEGISLATION.

STATE LAWS AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Milk and Milk Products-Improvement of, by Offering Prizes. (Chap. 96, Res. May 26, 1913.)

Resolved, That the State board of agriculture is hereby authorized to provide for the encouragement of practical dairymen in the production of milk and dairy products of superior quality and cleanliness by offering prizes for the best-kept stables, the lowest bacteria counts, and best quality of milk, or otherwise, as the board may determine; by demonstrations illustrating the best methods of dairying; by agents who shall instruct the citizens of the Commonwealth in matters of stable construction and management and dairy methods in general; by the distribution of literature giving information in regard to the best methods of dairying, and especially in regard to the production of clean milk; or in such other manner as the board may deem best for the encouragement of dairying and the production of clean milk. For traveling, incidental, administrative, and office expenses necessarily incurred in carrying out the purposes of this resolve, the said board may expend a sum not exceeding $5,000 annually for three years, beginning with the year 1913, and if any part of the said $5,000 remains unexpended at the close of any one year, the balance may be expended in the following year.

Foodstuffs Sale of Unwholesome, Prohibited. (Chap. 687, Act May 20, 1913.) SECTION 1. Whoever sells or offers for sale for food or drink any diseased animal or any product thereof or any tainted, diseased, corrupt, decayed, or unwholesome carcass, meat, fish, vegetables, produce, fruit, or provisions of any kind, except when packed in such a container that, upon reasonable inspection, the condition of the contents thereof can not be ascertained, without making the condition of the thing sold or offered for sale fully known to the buyer shall be punished by a fine of not more han $200, or by imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

State Board of Health-Appropriation for. (Chap. 463, Act Apr. 10, 1913.) SECTION 1. The sums hereinafter mentioned are appropriated, to be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth from the ordinary revenue, for the salaries and expenses of the State board of health, for the fiscal year ending on the 30th day of November, 1913, to wit:

For the salary of the secretary, $5,000.

For the general work of the board, including traveling expenses, a sum not exceeding $26,500.

For salaries and expenses for the inspection of milk, food, and drugs, a sum not exceeding $17,500.

For expenses of the examination of sewer outlets, a sum not exceeding $16,000. For the expense of producing and distributing antitoxin and vaccine lymph, a sum not exceeding $21,000.

For printing and binding the annual report, a sum not exceeding $5,000.

For services of engineers, chemists, biologists, and other assistants, and for other expenses in protecting the purity of inland waters, a sum not exceeding $36,000. For the salaries and expenses of the inspectors of health, a sum not exceeding $38,800. For expenses in connection with the watershed of the Charles River Basin in the city of Boston, a sum not exceeding $1,800.

For compensation and expenses of the State examiners of plumbers, a sum not exceeding $5,200.

For the expenses of carrying out the provisions of the act relative to the prevention of ophthalmia neonatorum, a sum not exceeding $500.

For the expenses of slaughtering and meat inspection, a sum not exceeding $5,000. For expenses in regulating the cold storage of certain food products, a sum not exceeding $7,000.

For expenses in connection with the supervision of water companies, a sum not exceeding $1,000.

For expenses in connection with the examination of the sanitary condition of the Merrimac River, a sum not exceeding $1,000.

For expenses in connection with the protection of the public health along the valley of the Aberjona River, a sum not exceeding $1,000.

Poliomyelitis-Investigation by State Board of Health. (Chap. 22, Res. Mar. 6, 1913.)

Resolved, That there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth the sum of $10,000, to be expended under the direction of the State board of health in its investigation of the disease known as anterior poliomyelitis or infantile paralysis. Mollusks taken from Polluted Waters-Sale of, Prohibited. (Chap. 504, Act Apr. 21, 1913.)

Section 4 of chapter 285 of the acts of the year 1907 is hereby amended by striking out the words "taken under the provisions of this act," in the third line, and inserting in place thereof the following: "taken from waters proscribed as contaminated and subject to the provisions of section 113 of chapter 91 of the Revised Laws, so as to read as follows:

"SEC. 4. Whoever sells, or exchanges, or exposes, or offers for sale or exchange, or buys any clams or quahaugs, taken from waters proscribed as contaminated and subject to the provisions of section 113 of chapter 91 of the Revised Laws, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment."

NEVADA.

Common Drinking Cups and Common Towels-Common Carriers Must not Provide. (Reg. Bd. of H., July 3, 1913.)

SECTION 1. Common carriers shall not provide in cars, vehicles, vessels, or convey ances operated in intrastate traffic, or in depots, waiting rooms, or other places used by passengers, any drinking cup, glass, or vessel for common use: Provided, That this regulation shall not be held to preclude the use of drinking cups, glasses, or vessels