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

Reports Received from Dec. 27, 1912, to Feb. 14, 1913-Continued.

CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, PLAGUE, AND SMALLPOX-Continued. Reports Received from Dec. 27, 1912, to Feb. 14, 1913-Continued.

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

Reports Received from Dec. 27, 1912, to Feb. 14, 1913-Continued.

SANITARY LEGISLATION.

STATE LAWS AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

MINNESOTA.

Rabies-Control of (Regulations State Board of Health Adopted Since June 30, 1911). 55. When an animal suspected of having rabies has bitten a human being the fact should be immediately reported to the local health officer, who shall secure or cause to be secured such animal alive and without injury where this can be accomplished with safety. The animal shall be confined in a safe, quiet, roomy, and comfortable place for a period of two weeks if death does not intervene. A report giving full particulars shall be sent immediately to the director of the laboratory division of the State Board of Health, University Campus, Minneapolis. This report shall include the name of the locality in which the biting occurred (city, village, or township); the date of biting; the name, residence, and address of the owner of the animal; the full name or names of the persons bitten, together with place of residence of each; the names, addresses, and residences of all owners of animals which have been bitten by the animal in question, together with a list and description of the animals bitten and the disposition made of same.

56. When it becomes necessary to kill such suspected animal, it must be done in such a way that no injury will be made to the brain or spinal cord. When an animal suspected of having rabies dies from the disease or is killed, the head and several inches of the neck must be cut off and sent to the director of the laboratories. It should be first wrapped in a clean piece of cloth and then carefully packed in a quantity of ice and sawdust, using such an amount of ice as will insure its reaching the laboratory in a cool condition.

57. All persons bitten by an animal suspected of having rabies should be sent at once to the Pasteur Institute of the Minnesota State Board of Health, located on the University Campus, Minneapolis, where the Pasteur preventive treatment against rabies will be given free of charge to residents of the State of Minnesota. Living accommodations must be provided by the individual bitten, or as previously provided. Further information when necessary may be obtained from the secretary and executive officer of the State board of health or from the Pasteur Institute. Full information on rabies may be obtained from a pamphlet issued by the Minnesota State Board of Health.

SOUTH DAKOTA.

Common Drinking Cups-Furnishing for Use in Public Places Prohibited (Regulation State Board of Health, Adopted May 1, 1912).

No person, company or corporation, having charge or control of any hotel, restaurant, theater, hall, store, schoolhouse, church, station, railroad train, steam or electric car, or other institution or conveyance frequented by the public, or which may be used

for the purpose of a public assembly, or as a place of employment may be permitted drinking cup, or permit any cup, vessel, or other receptacle to be used by more than to furnish any cup, vessel or other receptacle to be used promiscuously as a common one person for the common, indiscriminate or promiscuous use or purpose of drinking therefrom.

WISCONSIN.

State Board of Health-Provisions for and Duties of (Chap. 636, Laws of 1911, Adopted July 12, 1911).

Office in the capitol; supplies.-SECTION 1. Section 1022-5 and 1022-16 of the statutes are amended to read: SECTION 1022-5. Suitable apartments shall be provided in the capitol by the superintendent of public property for the State board of health and vital statistics which shall be properly equipped with fire-proof vaults for the safe preservation of all the official records, and the superintendent of public property shall furnish the said board with all necessary office furniture. The superintendent of public property shall also furnish the said board with all the necessary office supplies, stationery, books, postage and other material, and such office supplies, stationery, books, postage and other material furnished shall be charged against the annual appropriation to said board of health and vital statistics.

Subregistrars.-SEC. 1022-16. The local registrar or his deputy in each city, incorporated village, and township shall serve as subregistrar for every local registrar in the State for the purpose of receiving death certificates and issuing burial permits. The subregistrar shall sign his name, with the date on which the certificate of death was filed with him, in the space beneath the place for the signature of the local registrar, and forward the certificate at once to the registrar of the district where the death occurred. All subregistrars who sign certificates of death and forward them at once to the proper local registrar shall receive a fee of 10 cents for each certificate, to be paid by the treasurer of the county upon the certification of the State registrar. If any certificate of death is incomplete or unsatisfactory, it shall be the duty of the subregistrar to withhold issuing the burial or removal permit to the undertaker until the necessary information is obtained or a satisfactory record furnished. Each subregistrar shall be liable to the same penalty for neglect of duty as the local registrar. SEC. 2. Section 1022-17 of the statutes is repealed.

Fees for local registrars.-SEC. 3. Subsection 1 of section 1022-57 and section 1406 of the statutes are amended to read: (Sec. 1022-57) 1. For each complete certificate of each birth, death, marriage, or accident forwarded to the State registrar, together with a copy thereof transmitted to the register of deeds in accordance with the provisions of sections 1022-1 to 1022 -59, inclusive, including the copy retained in cities and villages, the local registrar shall be paid the sum of 20 cents.

Officers of the board; salary; printing; etc.-SEC. 1406. A member of the board shall be chosen president thereof, and his term of office shall be fixed and determined by said board, and his duties shall be such as may be prescribed by the by-laws of said board or by the statutes of the State. The board shall also elect a secretary, either from their own number or otherwise, who shall hold his office subject to removal at discretion by a vote of five members of the board at a regular meeting, and while in office he shall be a member of the board. The secretary shall receive an annual salary to be fixed by the board, and he and each other member shall be reimbursed his traveling expenses actually and necessarily incurred in the performance of official duties. The members of said board, other than the secretary, shall be paid a compensation of $10 per day, and expenses when actually and necessarily engaged outside the city or town in which such members respectively reside, on the performance of their official duties other than attendance upon the regular meetings of the board; such compensation to be paid on the certificate of the president and secretary of such board, but the compensation so to be paid to such members of the board, other