Certain cattle not to be driven on streets. To be kept in different pens. Penalty. Sheriffs and others to assist Acts of 1894, 491, § 54. No Texan, Mexican, Cherokee, Indian or other cattle, which the cattle commissioners decide may spread contagious disease, shall be driven on the streets of any city, town or village, or on any road in this Commonwealth, nor shall they be driven outside the stock yards connected with any railway in this Commonwealth contrary to any order of the board of cattle commissioners. Acts of 1894, 491, § 55. In all stock yards within this Commonwealth said Texan, Mexican, Cherokee, Indian or other cattle, which the cattle commissioners decide may spread contagious disease, shall be kept in different pens from those in which other cattle are kept. Acts of 1894, 491, § 56. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of the two preceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars. Acts of 1894, 491, § 57. Every cattle commissioner, member of a board of when required. health, or inspector, shall have power to call on sheriffs, constables and police officers to assist him or them in the discharge of the duties provided for in this act, and it is hereby made the duty of sheriffs, constables and police. officers to assist such commissioner, member or inspector, when requested so to do, and he or they shall have the same powers and protection as peace officers, while engaged in the discharge of his or their duties. Violations may be enforced by injunction. Repeal. Acts of 1894, 491, § 58. Courts of equity in term time or vacation may, by injunction or other proper order, upon application of the board of cattle commissioners, enforce or restrain violations of the provisions of this act. Acts of 1894, 491, § 59. Chapter fifty-eight of the Public Statutes, chapter two hundred and fifty-two of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, chapters one hundred and ninety-five and four hundred and thirty-two of the acts of Acts of 1895, 496, § 14. culin restricted. Until June first eighteen hundred and ninety-seven the Use of tuber. use of tuberculin as a diagnostic agent for the detection of the disease known as tuberculosis in domestic animals shall be restricted to cattle brought into the Commonwealth from any point without its limits, and to all cattle held in quarantine at Brighton, Watertown and Somerville: provided, however, that tuberculin may be used as Proviso. such diagnostic agent on any animal or animals in any other portion of the state upon the consent in writing of the owner or person in possession thereof, and upon any animals condemned as tuberculous upon physical examination by a competent veterinarian. Under the Statute of 1887, chap. 252, sect. 13, which authorizes the summary killing of animals having the farcy or glanders, with no provision for compensation to the owner, an adjudication of the cattle commissioners that an animal has the disease is not conclusive; and an order issued by them for killing an animal not in fact infected is no defence to those executing the order in a subsequent action by the owner for compensation. Miller v. Horton, 152 Mass. 540. Section 13 of chap. 252 of the Acts of 1887 was repealed by 1893, chap. 306, and 1887, chap. 252, was entirely repealed by 1894, chap. 491, sect. 59. Medical soci eties not to unless author ized by legis. MEDICAL SOCIETIES; DEGREES OR DIPLOMAS. No corporation organized for medical purposes under confer degrees the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifteen of the Public Statutes shall confer degrees, or issue diplomas or certificates conferring or purporting to confer degrees, unless specially authorized by the legislature so to do. lature. Penalty for violation of act. Acts of 1883, 268, § 2. An officer, agent or servant of any corporation mentioned in section one, or any other person conferring degrees, or signing, issuing or authorizing the signing or issuing of any diploma or certificate purporting to confer any degree of medicine or surgery, contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be punished by fine of not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars. [See also 1893, 355.] Railroad em. ployees to be tive to colorblindness and defective sight. COLOR-BLINDNESS AND DEFECTIVE SIGHT. P. S., 112, § 179. No railroad corporation shall employ or keep in its examined rela- employment, in a position which requires the person employed therein to distinguish form or color signals, any person, unless he has been examined for color-blindness or other defective sight by some competent person employed by the corporation and has received a certificate that he is not disqualified for such position by colorblindness or other defective sight. A railroad corporation shall forfeit one hundred dollars for each violation of the provisions of this section. Physiology and hygiene to be INSTRUCTION IN PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE; Physiology and hygiene, which, in both divisions of taught in public the subject, shall include special instruction as to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics on schools, including special to effects of the human system, shall be taught as a regular branch of instruction as study to all pupils in all schools supported wholly or in alcohol, etc. part by public money, except special schools maintained. solely for instruction in particular branches, such as drawing mechanics, art, and like studies. All acts or parts of acts relating to the qualifications of teachers in the public schools shall apply to the branch of study prescribed in this act. SANITARY PROVISIONS IN FACTORIES AND P. S., 103, § 9. The governor shall appoint two or more of the district Governor to appoint inspecpolice to act as inspectors of factories and public build- tors of factories and public ings. In a district where a district police officer is ap- buildings. pointed to act as such inspector, the governor may appoint an additional district police officer; but the whole district police force shall not exceed sixteen men. Acts of 1894, 508, § 33. kept clean and sanitary meas following sec enacted to 1 tions were amend sections and 2 of chap ter 103 of the Acts of 1887.) Every factory in which five or more persons are em- Factories to be ployed, and every factory, workshop, mercantile or other provided with establishment or office in which two or more children, ures. young persons or women are employed, shall be kept in (This and the a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or other nuisance, and shall be provided, within reasonable access, with a sufficient number of proper water-closets, earth-closets or privies for the reasonable use of the persons employed therein; and wher- 1888 ever two or more male persons and two or more female persons are employed as aforesaid together, a sufficient number of separate and distinct water-closets, earthclosets, or privies shall be provided for the use of each sex and plainly so designated, and no person shall be allowed to use any such closet or privy assigned to persons of the other sex. Acts of 1894, 508, § 34. pant to make It shall be the duty of every owner, lessee or occupant Owner or occuof any premises so used as to come within the provisions proper changes. of section thirty-three of this act to carry out the same Action to re. cover expenses, how made. 1888 Inspectors of factories to notify boards of health of etc. and to make the changes necessary therefor. In case such changes are made upon the order of an inspector of factories by the occupant or lessee of the premises he may at any time within thirty days of the completion thereof bring an action before any trial justice, police, municipal or district court against any other person having an interest in such premises, and may recover such proportion of the expense of making such changes as the court adjudges should justly and equitably be borne by such defendant. Acts of 1894, 508, § 35. When it appears to an inspector of factories that any act, neglect or fault in relation to any drain, water-closet, sanitary defects, earth-closet, privy, ash-pit, water-supply, nuisance or other matter in a factory or in a workshop, included under section thirty-three of this act, is punishable or remediable under chapter eighty of the Public Statutes, or under any law of the Commonwealth relating to the preservation of the public health, but not under this act, such inspector shall give notice in writing of such act, neglect or default to the board of health of the city or town within which such factory or workshop is situated, and it shall thereupon be the duty of such board of health to make enquiry into the subject of the notice, and to enforce the laws relative thereto. Criminal prosecution for violation of §§ 33, 34, not to be four weeks after notice, etc. Acts of 1894, 508, § 36. No criminal prosecution shall be instituted against any person for a violation of the provisions of sections thirty. instituted until three and thirty-four of this act until four weeks after notice in writing by an inspector of factories of the changes necessary to be made to comply with the provisions of said sections has been sent by mail or delivered to such person, nor then, if in the mean time such changes have been made in accordance with such notification. A notice shall be deemed a sufficient notice under this section to all members of a firm or to a corporation when given to one member of such firm, or to the clerk, cashier, secretary, agent or any other officer having charge of the business of such corporation, or to its attorney; and in case of a foreign corporation notice to |