living in the apartments or premises occupied by the person hav ing tuberculosis, the said local health officer shall issue an order upon the treasurer of the city, town or village in favor of the attending physician, except where such physician is employed by and receives a salary from the state of New York, for the sum of one dollar, thereupon to be paid out of a fund which shall be provided by said city, town, or village. If the precautions taken or instructions given by the attending physician are, in the opinion of the local health officer, not such as will remove all reasonable danger or probability of danger to the persons occupying the said house or apartments or premises, the local health officer shall return to the attending physician the report with a letter specifying the additional precautions or instructions which the health officer shall require him to take or give; and the said attending physician shall immediately take the additional precautions and give the additional instructions specified and shall record and return the same on the original report to the local health officer. It shall further be the duty of the local health officer to transmit to the physician reporting any case of tuberculosis a printed requisition, in a form approved by the state commissioner of health, and printed by the local health authorities and issued in sufficient number to supply local physicians. Upon this requisition blank. shall be named the materials kept on hand by the local health officer for the prevention of the spread of tuberculosis and it shall be the duty of the local health officer to supply such materials as may be specified in such requisition. Any physician may return a duly signed requisition to the local health officer for such of the specified materials and in such amount as he may deem necessary to aid him in preventing the spread of a disease, and all local health officers shall honor, as far as possible, the requisition signed by the attending physician in such case. It shall be the duty of every local health officer to transmit to every physician reporting any case of tuberculosis, or to the person reported as suffering from this disease, provided the latter has no attending physician, a circular of information approved by the state commissioner of health and which shall be provided in sufficient quantity by the local health authorities. This circular of information shall inform the consumptive of the best methods of treatment of his disease

and of the precautions necessary to avoid transmitting the disease to others. (As amended by chapter 426 of the Laws of 1909.)

§ 329. Penalty for failure of physician to perform duties or for making false reports.- Any physician or person practicing as a physician who shall knowingly report as affected with tuberculosis any person who is not so affected, or who shall wilfully make any false statement concerning the name, age, sex, color, occupation, place where last employed if known, or address of any person reported as affected with tuberculosis, or who shall certify falsely as to any of the precautions taken to prevent the spread of infection, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.

§ 330. Reporting recovery of patient. Upon the recovery of any person having tuberculosis, it shall be the duty of the attending physician to make a report of this fact to the local health officer, who shall record the same in the records of his office, and shall relieve said person from further liability to any requirements imposed by this article.

§ 331. General penalty. Any person violating any of the provisions of sections three hundred and twenty to three hundred and thirty, both inclusive, of this article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished, except as in this article otherwise provided, by a fine of not less. than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars.

§ 332. Application of provisions. No portion of sections three hundred and twenty and three hundred and twenty-one, both inclusive, shall apply to the city of New York, nor shall the passage of said sections modify or repeal any of the provisions of the charter of the city of New York, or any rule or regulation issued by the department of health of said New York city..

§ 333. Like privileges in hospitals to be granted to matriculated students of medical colleges. Whenever the managers, governors, or person or persons having lawful control and management over any public hospital in any city or county in this state, shall grant to matriculated students of any legally incorporated medical college in said city or county, privileges of admission to such hospital for hearing clinics or lectures, or receiv

ing medical or surgical instruction therein, the like privileges and advantages shall be granted to the matriculated students in each and all legally incorporated medical colleges in said city and county who may desire the same, without distinction or preference, and upon equal terms and conditions to all. Nothing in this section shall prevent the managers of hospitals from limiting the attendance of students in such hospitals to a number compatible with the welfare of patients. But in such limitation they shall receive students from such legally incorporated medical colleges applying for such admission in proportion to the number of students in attendance upon such college.

§ 334. Iron stairways on outside of hospital buildings.- All hospital buildings used for general hospital purposes, or hospitals or asylums for the insane, or any hospital buildings which are more than two stories high, other than those which are fireproof in their construction, shall have properly constructed iron stairways on the outside thereof, with suitable doorways leading thereto from each story above the first, for use in case of fire. It shall be the duty of the trustees, managers, owners or proprietors of such hospitals or asylums to cause such stairways to be constructed and maintained. If the trustees or owners of any hospital as herein described, except those owned and maintained by a city, a county, or the state, shall fail to provide such stairways before the first day of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, then the local authorities shall proceed to erect such stairways, and the cost thereof may be recovered by an action at law from the property of said hospital.

The district attorney of each county is hereby charged with the execution of this statute, except in the case of hospitals erected or maintained by the state, city or by a county.

The provisions of this section shall not apply to any institution in any of the cities or counties of this state, which the fire department of said city or district attorney of the county shall certify in writing to be fireproof to an extent which will not require the appliances and fixtures provided for in this sec tion. The certificate exempting institutions from the operations of this section shall be filed during the month of January in each vear, in the office of the county clerk of the county.

PASTEUR INSTITUTE AND THE PREVENTION OF HYDROPHOBIA. Section 340. Persons to be sent to Pasteur institute, and by what officers.

341. Transportation, sustenance and treatment.

342. Charges for services of Pasteur institute.

343. Inspection of the institute.

§ 340. Persons to be sent to Pasteur institute, and by what officers. Overseers of the poor or other officers having charge of the dispensation of public charity in the several counties of this state may hereafter send to the Pastcur institute in the city of New York all persons duly certified by regular physicians to have been bitten by rabid animals or otherwise put in danger of infection with rabies.

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§ 341. Transportation, sustenance and treatment. portation of such persons, with necessary attendant or attendants, to and from the city of New York, shall be a charge upon the counties in which they reside. The sustenance, nursing and preventive treatment of such persons, for the time adjudged necessary, shall be provided by the Pasteur institute of the city of New York.

§ 342. Charges for services of Pasteur institute. The charges for the services of the Pasteur institute of the city of New York for such poor persons shall be paid as is provided for by section forty-two of the poor law, at a rate not exceeding one hundred dollars a patient.

§ 343. Inspection of the institute.- The Pasteur institute of the city of New York shall be at all times open to the inspection of the governor and of the state department of health or of the accredited representative of either, and shall annually, on or before the fifteenth of January of each year, make its report to the legislature.

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GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW.

AN ACT relating to municipal corporations, constituting chapter twenty-four of the Consolidated Laws.

§ 87. Support and maintenance of charitable and other institutions. Boards of estimate and apportionment, common councils, boards of aldermen, boards of supervisors, town boards, boards of trustees of villages and all other boards or officers of counties, cities, town and villages, authorized to appropriate and to raise money by taxation and to make payments therefrom, are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to apppropriate and to raise money by taxation and to make payments from said moneys, and from any moneys received from any other source and properly applicable thereto, to charitable, eleemosynary, correctional and reformatory institutions wholly or partly under private control, for the care, support, and maintenance of their inmates, of the moneys which are or may be appropriated therefor; such payments to be made only for such inmates as are received and retained therein pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities; except that boards of trustees of villages and town boards of towns in which there is no hospital located, and which are situated upon and adjoin the boundary line of a neighboring state, are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to appropriate and to raise money by taxation and to make payments from said moneys, and from any moneys received from any other source and properly applicable thereto, to hospitals in such adjoining state for the purpose of maintaining a bed or beds in such hospital for the benefit of and to be used exclusively by the inhabitants of such village or town. Boards of trustees of villages and town boards of towns situate upon the boundary line of a neighboring state, which have appropriated and raised money by taxation for the purpose of maintaining a bed or beds in a hospital in such adjoining state and have not paid the same, are hereby authorized to use said money for the purpose for which it was appropriated and raised. Payments to such hospital in an adjoining state shall be made only for such inmates as are received and retained therein pursuant to rules established by the state board of charities.