chlorinated, or otherwise treated as approved by the department of health, so as not to contain more than 10 bacilli of the colon group in 1 cubic centimeter of such water. Wherever sea water obtained within the area above described is used, it shall be filtered through sand or other mechanical means of separation and so treated by chlorination, or by other means approved by the department of health, as to render it clean and sanitary. The water of such pools shall be maintained, at all times, so as not to contain more than 30 bacilli of the colon group in 1 cubic centimeter of such water.

REG. 24. Waste water to be discharged outside of pools.-The waste water from showers, tubs, dressing rooms, water-closets, sinks, and platforms shall be discharged outside of pool.

REG. 25. Persons with infectious disease to be excluded.-Persons suffering from any form of contagious, communicable, or infectious disease shall not be permitted to enter or use the pools.

REG. 26. Bathers to take shower baths.-Every bather, before being allowed access to the pools, shall be required to take a cleansing shower, using water and soap, and shall be required to use the toilet accommodations.

REG. 27. Bathers not to commit nuisance.-Bathers shall not commit, or be permitted to commit, any form of nuisance in the pools.

ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE CONDUCT OF BEACH BATHING

ESTABLISHMENTS.

REG. 28. Location of beach bathing establishments restricted.-No permit shall be issued for the maintenance of a beach bathing establishment along that portion of the water front of the city of New York included within the following designated boundary lines:

1. Borough of Manhattan.—(a) From the Ship Canal at Spuyten Duyvil, along the Hudson River, to the Battery.

(b) From the Battery, along the East River, to the Harlem River.

(c) From the Hudson River, along the Ship Canal at Spuyten Duyvil and the Harlem River, to the East River.

2. Borough of The Bronx.-(a) From the boundary line between the cities of New York and Yonkers, along the Hudson River, to the Ship Canal at Spuyten Duyvil.

(b) From the Hudson River, along the Ship Canal at Spuyten Duyvil and the Harlem River, to the East River.

(c) From the Harlem River, along the East River, to Fort Schuyler.

3. Borough of Queens.-From Willetts Point, along the East River, to Newtown Creek, including Little Bay, Powells Cove, Flushing Bay, and Bowery Bay. 4. Borough of Brooklyn.-From Newtown Creek, along the East River, Upper New York Bay, including Gowanus Bay, the Narrows, and Gravesend Bay, to Nortons Point, Coney Island.

5. Borough of Richmond.—(a) From Tottenville, along the Arthur Kills and Kill von Kull River, to New Brighton.

(b) From New Brighton, along the upper New York Bay and the Narrows, to the northerly boundary of Fort Wadsworth Reservation.

REG. 29. Bathing beach near sewer outlet prohibited. No bathing beach shall be maintained within 500 feet of the point of discharge of the outlet of any sewer, the flow of which would contribute, in any way, to the pollution of the waters used by bathers.

REG. 30. Life lines and danger signs to be provided.-Life lines and danger signs must be provided in accordance with the provisions of section 341 of the sanitary code.

REG. 31. Surf boats, life lines, etc., to be provided.—A surf boat, not less than 16 feet long, shall be provided, on each side of which there shall be hanging ropes arranged so that persons in the water can easily catch hold of same or be supported thereby. Such boats shall be equipped with two or more sets of oars and life lines and life belts, and at least one ring buoy or life preserver with quarter-inch cotton line not less than 500 feet in length with suitable reel attached thereto.

At such bathing establishments where there are equipments for 200 bathers or more, said surf or life boat shall be stationed in the water opposite the lines, manned and in readiness for use during bathing hours.

REG. 32. Reel and life lines to be provided on shore.-There shall be anchored on the shore a suitable reel with a half-inch cotton line not less than 500 feet in length with a life belt attached thereto, kept in good order and in proper condition so that it can readily be used by those assisting in saving life.

REG. 33. Life guard to be in attendance.-A bathing master or life guard who shall be an expert swimmer and who shall be in constant and watchful attendance during bathing hours shall be stationed at every such bathing establishment.

PORT CHESTER, N. Y.

Barber Shops-Sanitary Regulation. Barbers, Manicures, and ChiropodistsRegulation. (Reg. Jan. 21, 1918.)

Ch. 7. REG. 4. Barbers and barber shops.-Every barber or other person in charge of any barber shop shall keep such barber shop at all times in a clean and sanitary condition.

No person shall act as a barber who is affected with a venereal disease in the communicable stage or with any communicable disease enumerated in these regulations, in an acute form, or with any communicable disease of the skin. The hands of the barber shall be washed with soap and water before serving each customer.

Brushes and combs shall frequently be cleansed with soap and water. Shaving mugs and brushes shall be thoroughly rinsed after each use thereof. There shall be a separate clean towel for each customer. The head rest shall be covered by a clean towel or paper.

Alum or other material used to stop the flow of blood shall be applied in powdered or liquid form only.

After the handling of a customer affected with any eruption, or whose skin is broken out, or is inflamed or contains pus, the hands of the barber shall be immediately disinfected. This shall be done by thorough washing with soap and water, followed by rinsing in alcohol (70 to 80 per cent) or in a solution of corrosive sublimate (1 to 1,000), or by the use of some equally efficient disinfectant.

The instruments used for a customer affected with any of the above-named disorders shall be made safe immediately after such use by washing with soap and water and dipping for one minute in a 10 per cent solution of commercial (40 per cent) formalin; or dipping for three minutes in alcohol (70 to 80 per cent), or by the use of some equally efficient disinfectant.

No cup or brush which has been used in the shaving of a customer affected with any of the above infectious disorders of the face shall be used for another customer unless the cup shall have been emptied and cleansed by boiling water and furnished with fresh soap, and the brush has been sterilized by a threeminutes' exposure to alcohol (70 to 80 per cent), or to a corrosive sublimate solution (1 to 1,000), or by the use of some equally efficient disinfectant.

REG. 5. Manicures and chiropodists.-The utensils and instruments employed by manicures and chiropodists in pursuit of their occupations shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition.

After serving customers affected with a visible skin disease the hands and instruments of the operators shall be immediately cleansed and sterilized.

REG. 6. Copies of regulations 4 and 5 to be posted.-Every barber or other person in charge of any barber shop or place where manicuring or chiropody is done shall post a copy of regulations 4 and 5 of this chapter in a conspicuous place therein.

PORTLAND, ME.

Barbers and Barber Shops-Regulation. (Reg. Bd. of H., July 25, 1917.)

SECTION 1. Every person, firm, or corporation who desires to establish in the city of Portland a barber shop, or who desires to continue and maintain a barber shop, shall make application to the board of health for permission so to do. Such application shall be made in writing and shall set forth the name of the proprietor or owner, the name of the manager, and the names of all persons who are employed in said barber shop, together with the location, giving the street and number where such shop is to be operated and maintained. If, upon inspection, it is found that such location is suitable and that the persons to be employed are free from all communicable diseases and that the following regulations can be strictly observed, then the board of health shall issue to such person, firm, or corporation the permit applied for, and such barber shop shall be open at all reasonable times for inspection by agents of the board of health, and the owner and manager and all of the employees thereof shall conform strictly to the provisions of this by-law.

SEC. 2. No owner or manager of a barber shop shall knowingly permit any person suffering from a communicable disease, or from a venereal disease in a communicable stage, to act as a barber in said shop, and no person who, to his own knowledge, is suffering from a communicable disease, or from a venereal disease in a communicable stage which might be conveyed to another person by contact, shall act as a barber.

SEC. 3. (a) All places used as barber shops, together with the furniture, fixtures, tools, implements, and linen, shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition at all times.

(b) Mugs, shaving brushes, razors, scissors, clipping machines, pincers, needles, and other steel instruments shall be cleansed and sterilized either by steam, boiling water, or in alcohol of at least 60 per cent strength, after each separate use, and all combs and other brushes shall be cleansed and sterilized before use upon any customer. A separate clean towel shall be used for each customer, and such towel shall not again be used until washed and ironed.

(c) Alum or other material used to stop the flow of blood shall be in powder form and applied only on a towel or other clean cloth.

(d) The use of powder puffs or of sponges is prohibited, except that a puff owned by a customer may be used on him exclusively.

(e) Every barber shop shall be kept well ventilated and provided with running hot and cold water.

(f) Head rests on chairs shall be covered with a towel that has been washed since having been used before or by clean new paper for each customer.

(9) Every barber shall thoroughly cleanse his hands immediately before serving each customer.

(h) No barber shop nor any part thereof shall be used as a dormitory.

(i) No barber shall treat any disease, affection, or wound of the skin, nor warts, nor moles, except to stop the flow of blood as hereinbefore provided. (j) The use of rubber bibs is forbidden.

(k) Every physician is required to report to the board of health the name of any barber applying to him for treatment who is suffering from a communicable disease, and where such barber is employed.

(1) Every person in charge of any barber shop shall post a copy of these rules in a conspicuous place in said shop and shall be responsible for their enforcement.

SEC. 4. Any violation of these rules shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, INTERMENTS, AND

DISINTERMENTS.1

BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

Birth and Death Certificates-Data for, to be Obtained by Hospitals, Almshouses, and Other Institutions. (Ord. 518-C, Dec. 22, 1917.)

That section 1067 of the city code of Birmingham be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 1067. Data required by certificates of birth and death to be obtained upon admission of patient into hospitals and other like institutions.-It shall be the duty of the superintendent, manager, or other person in charge of each hospital, almshouse, lying-in, or other institution, public or private, to which persons resort for treatment of diseases, confinement, or to which persons are committed by process of law, to make a record on January 1, 1918, as to each inmate of said institution on said date of all the personal and statistical particulars and data relative to such inmate which are required in the forms of birth and death certificates provided for by law, and sufficient to enable the preparation of a complete death certificate, or in the event of the birth of a child to any female inmate of the preparation of a complete birth certificate for such child. And thereafter it shall be the duty of each superintendent, Eanager, or other person in charge of each such hospital, almshouse, lying-in, @r other institution, public or private, to which persons resort for treatment of diseases, confinement, or to which persons are committed by process of law, to make a record immediately upon the admission of any person thereto of all statistical particulars and data relative to such inmate as may be required in the forms of birth and death certificates provided for by law, and as may be Decessary to the preparation of a complete death certificate, in the event of death of such inmate, or to the preparation of a complete birth certificate of any child which may be born to any such female inmate. And in case of persons admitted or committed for treatment of any disease to any such institution hereinbefore named, the physician in charge shall specify for entry in the record the nature of the disease and where in his opinion it was contracted. The personal particulars, statistics, and data required by this section shall be obtained from the inmate, if it is practicable to do so, and when it is impracticable to obtain them from such inmate, they must be obtained in as complete a manner as possible from relatives or friends of the inmate, or other persons acquainted with the facts. The record hereinabove provided for by this section shall be of a permanent nature, and open to the inspection of any health officer, physician, or other person whose duty it may be to prepare birth or death certificates.

FALL RIVER, MASS.

Burial and Embalming. (Reg. Bd. of H., Feb. 11, 1918.)

No body shall be embalmed until a certificate of death has been obtained in the manner required by law: Provided, however, That except under unusual

See also Communicable diseases, p. 62.

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