which are thoroughly cleansed by washing in boiling water after use by each individual, nor shall it be held to preclude the use of sanitary devices for individual use only.

SEC. 2. Common carriers shall not provide in cars, vehicles, vessels, or conveyances operated in intrastate traffic, or in depots, waiting rooms, or other places used by passengers, any towel for use by more than one person: Provided, That towels may be used again after having been sterilized with boiling water.

Drinking Water and Ice-Provided by Common Carriers-Regulations Governing. (Reg. Bd. of H., July 3, 1913.)

Water provided by common carriers on cars, vessels, or vehicles operated in intrastate traffic for the use of passengers, shall be furnished under the following conditions: (a) Water shall be certified by the State or municipal health authority within whose jurisdiction it is obtained as incapable of conveying disease: Provided, That water in regard to the safety of which a reasonable doubt exists may be used if the same has been treated in such manner as to render it incapable of conveying disease and the fact of such treatment is certified by the aforesaid health officer.

(b) Ice used for cooling such water shall be from a source the safety of which is certified by the State or municipal health authority within whose jurisdiction it is obtained, and before the ice is placed in the water it shall first be carefully washed with water of known safety and handled in such a manner as to prevent its becoming contaminated by the organisms of infectious or contagious diseases: Provided, That the foregoing shall not apply to ice which does not come in contact with the water which is to be cooled.

(c) Water containers shall be cleansed and thoroughly scalded with live steam at least once in each week that they are in operation.

Leprosy Transportation of Persons Afflicted with, Prohibited-Disinfection. (Reg. Bd. of H., July 3, 1913.)

SECTION 1. Common carriers shall not accept for transportation nor transport in intrastate traffic any person suffering from or afflicted with leprosy, unless there has been obtained from the Surgeon General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service or his accredited representative, a permit stating that said person may be received under such restrictions as will prevent the spread of the disease, and said restrictions shall be specified in each instance.

SEC. 2. No person knowing or having reason to believe that he is a leper shall accept transportation nor engage in travel in intrastate traffic unless permits have been obtained, as set forth in the preceding section, and unless said person shall have agreed in writing to comply with the restrictions as specified in the permits mentioned above.

SEC. 3. Compartments or places in cars, vessels, or conveyances operated in intrastate traffic and that have been occupied by persons afflicted with leprosy shall be immediately closed after being vacated by the patient and so kept until after proper disinfection.

Bodies-Transportation of Dead-Communicable Diseases. (Reg. Bd. of H., July 3, 1913.)

RULE 1. The transportation of bodies dead of smallpox or bubonic plague through the State is absolutely prohibited.

RULE 2. The transportation of bodies dead of Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, diphtheria (membranous croup), scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet rash), erysipelas, glanders, anthrax, or leprosy shall not be accepted for transportation unless prepared for shipment by being thoroughly disinfected by (a) arterial and cavity

injection with an approved disinfecting fluid; (b) disinfection and stopping of all orifices with absorbent cotton; and (c) washing the body with the disinfectant, all of which must be done by an embalmer holding a certificate as such, issued by the State Board of Embalmers of Nevada, provided for by law.

After being disinfected as above such body shall be enveloped in a layer of dry cotton not less than 1 inch thick, completely wrapped in a sheet securely fastened and incased in an air-tight zinc, tin, copper, or lead lined coffin or iron casket, all joints and seams hermetically sealed and all inclosed in a strong, tight, wooden box. Or the body, being prepared for shipment by disinfecting and wrapping, as above, may be placed in a strong coffin or casket and said coffin or casket inclosed in an airtight zinc, copper, or tin lined box, all joints and seams hermetically soldered.

RULE 3. The bodies of those dead of typhoid fever, puerperal fever, tuberculosis, or measles may be received for transportation when prepared for shipment by arterial and cavity injection with an approved disinfecting fluid, washing the exterior of the body with the same, and enveloping the entire body with a layer of cotton not less than 1 inch thick and all wrapped in a sheet securely fastened and incased in an airtight metallic coffin or casket or air-tight metal-lined box: Provided, That this shall only apply to bodies which can reach their destination within 30 hours from the time of death. In all other cases such bodies shall be prepared by a licensed embalmer holding a certificate as provided for in rule 2. When prepared by a licensed embalmer as defined and directed in rule 2, the air-tight sealing and bandaging with cotton may be dispensed with.

RULE 4. The bodies of those dead from any cause not stated in rules 2 and 3 may be received for transportation when incased in a sound coffin or casket and inclosed in a strong outside wooden box, provided they can reach their destination within 30 hours from the time of death. If the body can not reach its destination within 30 hours from the time of death, it must be prepared for shipment by arterial and cavity injec tion with approved disinfecting fluid, washing the exterior of the body with the same, and enveloping the entire body with a layer of dry cotton not less than 1 inch thick, and all wrapped in a sheet securely fastened and incased in an air-tight metallic coffin or casket or an air-tight metal-lined box. But when the body has been prepared for shipment by being thoroughly disinfected by a licensed embalmer, as defined and directed in rule 2, the air-tight sealing and bandaging with cotton may be dispensed with.

RULE 5. In the shipment of bodies dead from any disease named in rule 2 such body must not be accompanied by persons or articles which have been exposed to the infection of the disease unless certified by the health officer as having been properly disinfected.

RULE 5. (The following is rule 8 of the American Public Health Association:) Every disinterred body, dead from any disease or cause, shall be treated as infectious or dangerous to the public health, and shall not be accepted for transportation unless said removal has been approved by the State board of Health and the local health officer having jurisdiction where such body is disinterred, and the consent of the health authorities of the locality to which the corpse is consigned has been first obtained; and all such disinterred remains, or the coffin or casket containing the same, must be wrapped in a woolen blanket thoroughly saturated with a 1-1,000 solution of corrosive sublimate, and inclosed in a hermetically soldered zinc, tin, or copper lined box. But bodies deposited in receiving vaults shall not be treated and considered the same as buried bodies, when originally prepared by a licensed embalmer as defined in rule 2, and as directed in rules 2 and 3 (according to the nature of the disease causing death), providing shipment takes place within 30 days from the time of death. The shipment of bodies prepared in the manner above directed by licensed embalmers from receiving vaults may be made within 30 days from the time of death without having to obtain permission from the health authorities of the locality to which the body is consigned

After 30 days the casket or coffin box containing said body must be inclosed in a hermetically soldered box.

RULE 6. Disinterred bodies, dead from any cause defined in rule 2, may be disinterred and received for transportation at any time, provided that said removal has first been approved by the Nevada State Board of Health and the local health officer within whose jurisdiction said shipment is made. For interstate transportation, permission must first be obtained from the health authorities of the locality to which the body is consigned.

All bodies dead of any disease mentioned in rule 2 may be received for transportation at any time, provided said body has been prepared strictly in accordance with rule 5; all of which must be done by an embalmer holding a certificate as such from the State Board of Embalmers of Nevada, provided by law.

NEW YORK.

Communicable Diseases-Notification of Cases and Control of. (Chap. 559, Act May 17, 1913.)

SEC. 12. Sections 25, 27, 31, 34, 35, and 38 of such chapter [chap. 45, Consolidated Laws] are hereby amended to read, respectively, as follows:

"SEC. 25. Infectious and contagious or communicable diseases.-Every local board of health and every health officer shall guard against the introduction of such infectious and contagious or communicable diseases as are designated in the sanitary code, by the exercise of proper and vigilant medical inspection and control of all persons and things infected with or exposed to such diseases, and provide suitable places for the treatment and care of sick persons who can not otherwise be provided for. They may, subject to the provisions of the sanitary code, prohibit and prevent all intercourse and communication with or use of infected premises, places, and things, and require, and, if necessary, provide the means for the thorough purification and cleansing of the same before general intercourse with the same or use thereof shall be allowed. Every physician shall immediately give notice of every case of infectious and contagious or communicable disease required by the State department of health to be reported to it, to the health officer of the city, town, or village where such disease occurs, and no physician being in attendance on such case, it shall be the duty of the superintendent or other officer of an institution, householder, hotel or lodging-house keeper, or other person where such case occurs, to give such notice. The physician or other person giving such notice shall be entitled to the sum of 25 cents therefor, which shall be a charge upon and paid by the municipality where such case occurs.

"Every local health officer shall report to the State department of health, promptly, all cases of such infectious and contagious or communicable diseases as may be required by the State department of health, and for such reporting the health officer of a village or town shall be paid by the municipality employing him, upon the certification of the State department of health, a sum not to exceed 20 cents for each case so reported. The reports of cases of tuberculosis made pursuant to the provisions of this section sh ll not be divulged or made public so as to disclose the identity of the persons to whom they relate, by any person, except in so far as may be authorized by the public health council. The board of health shall provide, at stated intervals, a suitable supply of vaccine virus, of a quality and from a source approved by the State department of health, and during an actual epidemic of smallpox obtain fresh supplies of such virus at intervals not exceeding one week, and at all times provide thorough and safe vaccination for all persons in need of the same. If a pestilential, infectious, or contagious disease exists in any county almshouse or its vicinity, and the physician thereof shall certify that such disease is likely to endanger the health of its inmates, the county superintendent of the poor may cause such inmates or any of them to be

removed to such other suitable place in the county as the local board of health of the municipality where the almshouse is situated may designate, there to be maintained and provided for at the expense of the county, with all necessary medical care and attendance until they shall be safely returned to such almshouse or otherwise discharged. The health officer, commissioner of health, or boards of health of the cities of the first class shall report promptly to the State department of health all cases of smallpox, typhus and yellow fever, and cholera and the facts relating thereto."

Premises, Care of Suppression of Breeding Places of Mosquitoes-Nuisances. (Chap. 559, Act May 17, 1913.)

"SEC. 27. Owner to bear all or part of expense of removal of waters wherein mosquito larvæ breed.Whenever the local board of health of a municipality shall determine that any accumulation of water wherein mosquito larvæ breed constitutes a nuisance or a danger or injury to life or health, the owner or owners of the premises on which the breeding place is located shall bear the expense of its suppression or removal, or so much thereof as the local board may have determined to be equitable as hereinafter provided; and for the amount thereof an action may be maintained in the name of the muncipality, and the same shall become a first lien on the premises as provided by sections 31 and 32 of this article."

"SEC. 31. Removal of nuisances.—If the owner or occupant of any premises whereon any nuisance or condition deemed to be detrimental to the public health exists, or the cause of the existence elsewhere, fails to comply with any order or regulation of any such local board for the suppression and removal of any such nuisance or other matter, in the judgment of the board detrimental to the public health, made, served, or posted as required in this article, such board or their servants or employees may enter upon the premises to which such order or regulation relates, and suppress or remove such nuisance or other matter. The expense of such suppression or removal shall be paid by the owner or occupant of such premises, or by the person who caused or maintained such nuisance or other matters, and the board may maintain an action in the name of the municipality to recover such expense, and the same when recovered shall be paid to the treasurer of the municipality, or if it has no treasurer to its chiei fiscal officer, to be held and used as the funds of the municipality. Whenever the suppression or removal of such nuisance or conditions detrimental to health demand the immediate expenditure of money, every such local board of health shall be authorized to use for such purpose any money in the hands of the board, or may call on the city council for such money, or it may borrow the same on the credit of the municipality. All such moneys so expended or borrowed shall be immediately repaid to the fund or source whence they were received on the recovery of the same by action or otherwise from the persons responsible for the expenses of suppression or removal." Local Boards of Health - Jurisdiction Expenses. (Chap. 559, Act May 17, 1913.)

"SEC. 34. Jurisdiction of town boards.-A town board of health shall not have jurisdiction over any city or incorporated village or part of such city or village in such town. "SEC. 35. Expenses, how paid.---All expenses incurred by any local board of health in the performance of the duties imposed upon it or its members by law shall be a charge upon the municipality, and shall be audited, levied, collected, and paid in the same manner as the other charges of, or upon, the municipality are audited, levied, collected, and paid. The taxable property of any incorporated village shall not be subject to taxation for maintaining any town board of health, or for any expenditure authorized by the town board, but the costs and expenditures of the town board shall be assessed and collected exclusively on the property of the town outside of any such village."

"SEC. 38. Exceptions and limitations as to city of New York.-Sections 20 to 38, inclusive, of this article shall not be construed to affect, alter, or repeal laws now in force relating to the board of health of the city of New York nor the sanitary code duly adopted and now in force in such city."

Tuberculosis-Reporting of Cases of-Disinfection. (Chap. 559, Act of May 17, 1913.)

SEC. 13. Sections 320 and 322 of such chapter [chap. 45, Consolidated Laws], are hereby amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 320. Reports of tuberculosis by physicians and others.-Tuberculosis is hereby declared to be an infectious and communicable disease, dangerous to the public health. It shall be the duty of every physician in the State of New York to report, by telephone or in person or in writing on a form to be furnished as hereinafter provided, the name and address of every person known by said physician to have tuberculosis to the health officer of the city, town, or village in which said person resides or may be within 24 hours after such fact comes to the knowledge of said physician. It shall also be the duty of the chief officer having charge for the time being of any hospital, dispensary, asylum, or other similar private or public institution to report the name, age, sex, color, occupation, place where last employed if known, the previous address of every patient having tuberculosis who comes into his care or under his observation within 24 hours thereafter.

"Any physician may report the name and address of any person coming under his observation who appears to be suffering from tuberculosis to the health officer of the city, town, or village in which such person is, and the health officer shall thereupon take such steps as may be prescribed by the sanitary code.

"Each registrar of vital statistics shall promptly report to the health officer the name and address of every person reported to him as having died from tuberculosis. The health officer shall ascertain whether such person has been previously reported as having tuberculosis by the physician signing the death certificate, and if it appears that such physician has not so reported such person the health officer shall call the attention of such physician to the provisions of this section. In case of repeated violations of the provisions of this section by any physician the health officer shall report such repeated violations to the board of health or other local health authorities, who shall cause such steps to be taken as may be necessary to enforce the penalty provided for such violation."

"SEC. 322. Protection of records.-It shall be the duty of every health officer of a city, town, or village to cause all reports made in accordance with the provisions of section 320, and also all results of examinations showing the presence of the bacilli of tuberculosis, made in accordance with the provisions of section 321, to be recorded in a register, of which he shall be the custodian. Such register shall not be open to inspection by any person other than the health authorities of the State and of the said city, town, or village; and said health authorities shall not permit any such report or record to be divulged so as to disclose the identity of the person to whom it relates, except as may be authorized in the sanitary code."

SEC. 14. Section 324 of such chapter, as amended by chapter 240 of the laws of 1909 and chapter 427 of the laws of 1910, is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 324. Health officer to direct disinfection, cleansing, or renovation.—When notified of the vacation of any apartments or premises, as provided in section 323 thereof, the local health officer or one of his assistants or deputies shall, within 24 hours thereafter, visit said apartments or premises and shall order and direct that, except for purposes of cleansing or disinfection, no infected article shall be removed therefrom until properly and suitably cleansed or disinfected, and all apartments or premises shall be disinfected, cleansed, or renovated in order that they may be ren