BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

Diphtheria Antitoxin-Sales by Pharmacists and Druggists to Be Reported. (Ord. 508-C, Oct. 24, 1917.)

SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of every person, firm, or corporation engaged in or carrying on the business of a pharmacist or druggist in the city of Birmingham to make a report by telephone to the city health officer within 24 hours after all sales made at retail by such pharmacist or druggist of diphtheria antitoxin, and a written report on each Monday morning of all sales during the preceding week of diphtheria antitoxin made by such druggist or pharmacist at retail to persons living or sojourning permanently, temporarily or casually in the city of Birmingham. Such report shall show:

1. The name of the person, firm, or corporation selling or otherwise disposing of such diphtheria antitoxin and the address or place of such business. 2. The date of the sale.

3. The name and address of the purchaser.

4. Number of packages bought.

5. Number of units bought.

6. Name and address of the patient for whom bought.

SEC. 2. That it shall be the duty of every pharmacist and druggist doing busiless in the city of Birmingham to make a written report weekly, whether sales have been made or not, and if no sale has been made that fact shall be reported. SEC. 3. That any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be punished within the limits and as provided by section 1216 of the Code of Alabama.

Smallpox Vaccination—Admission of Pupils to School. (Ord. 551-C, Mar. 27, 1918.)

SECTION 1. No person shall attend any public, parochial, or private school in the city of Birmingham unless such person shall be vaccinated or has had smallpox.

SEC. 2. That this section shall be enforced by the board of health, except in the case of a person who may show by certificates of reputable physicians that such person has submitted to the process of vaccination not less than three times, or who holds a certificate issued by the board of health of Jefferson County, Ala., that he or she is an unfit subject for vaccination. Said board of health shall issue such certificate upon the advice of a registered physician, approved by said board of health.

SEC. 3. That the board of education of the city of Birmingham shall not admit any pupil into the schools without satisfactory evidence that such pupil has complied with all statutes and city ordinances relating to the protection and preservation of the health of school children and of this ordinance. The city physician, health officer, and his assistants shall at all times be prepared to vaccinate at the expense of the city any pupil of the public schools who is unable to pay the expense of vaccination.

SEC. 4. That the certificate from the board of health that the pupil bears physical evidence of having had vaccina or variola shall be regarded as satisfactory proof that the pupil has been vaccinated or has had smallpox within the meaning of this ordinance.

BOONE, IOWA.

Influenza and Pneumonia-Notification of Cases. Measures to Prevent Spread of Influenza. (Reg. Bd. of H., Dec. 5, 1918.)

1. That from and after this date, all schocls of the city, all churches, all pool halls, card rooms, theaters, moving picture shows, houses of entertainments and amusements, district court, except for the hearing of equity cases and matters tryable to the court without witnesses, dances, lodges, banquets, social and religious gatherings, and all other public gatherings of every kind and description whatsoever, be closed and prohibited.

2. That all mercantile houses and other places of business of the city, including five and ten-cent stores, shall not permit more than 12 patrons or persons in any store or place of business at any one time, in addition to the regular employees, and no place of business shall remain open between the hours of 7 p. m. and 7 a. m. on any day, excepting only eating houses, hotels, restaurants and the prescription departments of drug stores, and no loafing shall be permitted therein.

3. That all funerals shall be private and that no public funerals shall be held.

4. That no special sales of any kind shall be advertised or held by any of the merchants in said city.

5. That all physicians practicing medicine within the corporate limits of said city shall within 12 hours from the service of notice of these regulations upon him, report to the mayor of said city, or to the clerk thereof, all existing cases of colds, grippe, la grippe, influenza, Spanish influenza, pneumonia, and all similar diseases or ailments within the knowledge as such physicians.

6. That all physicians practicing medicine within the corporate limits of said city and all other persons residing therein shall report any and all of the above mentioned cases to said mayor or clerk within 12 hours from the time any such cases come to their knowledge.

7. It is also made the duty of all undertakers to report each day to the local board of health all cases of death from the disease known as Spanish influenza, and also from pneumonia, said report to be made on or before 10 o'clock a. m. of each day.

8. That all houses where any of the above-mentioned ailments exist shall be placarded with the regulation warning sign as provided for by the State board of health.

9. That all persons are hereby requested to observe the placards placed upon the residences where cases of influenza exist and to keep out of such residences, and that all persons coming from residences in which some one is sick with the influenza be requested to refrain from going to the houses of others and to mingle with other people as little as possible during the existence of the present epidemic.

10. That from the publication of these resolutions and until modifications thereof by this board of health all children under the age of 18 years residing within the corporate limits of said city shall, while not engaged in labor or upon errands, remain at their respective places of residence, unless accompanied by their parents.

11. It shall be the duty of all the local health authorities, the health physician, the members of the police department, and all peace officers to cooperate in every way in securing compliance with the foregoing rules, and this board calls upon and appeals to all good citizens of the city to give their ready acquiescence to what the board believes to be an absolutely necessary restric

tion in order that the health and lives of the people may be fully protected and preserved.

12. That these resolutions shall be in full force and effect from and after their passage for a period of ten days.

BOSTON, MASS.

Influenza-Burial. (Order H. Com., Oct. 6, 1919.)

Hereafter, each permit for the burial of the dead body of a person who has died from influenza will contain requirements that the body be kept in a tightly closed casket and that the funeral be private.

BRIDGEPORT, CONN.

Pupils Affected with Disease or Uncleanliness-Medical or Sanitary Treatment. (Reg. Bd. of H. Com., Nov. 13, 1917.)

SECTION 1. Whenever it shall be found by the health officer or a subordinate appointed by him that any child in attendance at a public or at any private or parochial school is suffering from or is afflicted with any disease, physical disorder, or condition of offensive uncleanliness, it shall be the duty of said health officer, or subordinate appointed by him, to cause a notice to be served upon the parent or guardian of such child, stating the nature of such disease, disorder, or condition of uncleanliness, and directing that proper medical or sanitary treatment be given to such child.

SEC. 2. If the parent or guardian of such child, after receiving such notice, shall wilfully fail, neglect, or refuse to procure for such child such medical or other treatment as may be required to cure such disease, disorder, or offensive condition, such parent or guardian, upon conviction, shall pay a fine not exceeding $100.

BROOKLINE, MASS.

Tuberculosis-Handling of Food or Food Utensils by Infected Persons. (Reg. Bd. of H., Apr. 9, 1917.)

To amend article 1 by adding the following section:

SEC. 4c. No person having tuberculosis in a communicable form shall be allowed to handle food or utensils used in the preparation or serving of food, except such food or utensils as are for his or her exclusive use.

BUFFALO, N. Y.

Communicable Diseases-Prevention and Control-Carriers-Hospitalization-Nose and Throat Cultures from Certain Persons. (Ord. Feb. 13, 1919.)

That chapter 25 of the ordinances of the city of Buffalo be, and the same hereby is, amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 11-a, to read as follows:

SEC. 11-a. (a) Whenever a communicable disease is prevalent or exists in any school, factory, hotel, lodging house, tenement house, or in any other place, and the health commissioner has reasonable grounds to believe that any person who has been in attendance at, or employed in, any such place has contracted said disease from, or been exposed to, a convalescent carrier, or a contact carrier of said disease, or if there is a reasonable probability that said

disease may have been so contracted, the health commissioner is hereby authorized to take all necessary means to ascertain and identify, so far as is possible, what person or persons, if any, is such a carrier.

(b) The health commissioner is hereby authorized to quarantine or renrove to an appropriate hospital, any person suffering from a communicable disease, or who has been exposed to such diease, or who is a convalescent carrier, or a contact carrier of said disease, whenever in his judgment such action is necessary for the preservation of the public health; and it shall be the duty of every such person to comply with the regulations and orders of the health commissioner in reference to such quarantine or removal to a hospital.

(c) For the purpose of carrying the intent of this section into effect, the health commissioner is hereby authorized to take one or more cultures from the nose or throat, or both, of any or every person in any manner connected with any school, factory, hotel, lodging house, tenement house, or other place where such communicable disease exists or is prevalent, or from any other person with whonr, at any time within 60 days prior to his developing said disease, the person afflicted has been associated or in contact, or from any other person who, at any time during the 60 days next preceding, has been exposed to or come in contact with a convalescent carrier or a contact carrier of said disease.

(d) It shall be the duty of every person from whose nose or throat, or both, the health commissioner is authorized to take a culture or cultures, for the purposes aforesaid, to permit the taking of such culture or cultures, and to cooperate with him for the purpose of ascertaining whether such person is or is not a carrier of said disease.

(e) Unless otherwise mutually agreed upon, all such cultures for examination by the health authorities shall be taken by the health commissioner or his representative, who shall be a person duly licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the State of New York.

(f) Any person who is herein required to permit a culture or cultures to be taken from the nose or throat, or both, who shall refuse to allow the taking of same, is guilty of a violation of this section, and in addition to the fine or penalty therefor, hereinafter provided, may be prohibited by the health commissioner from frequenting any school, factory, hotel, lodging house, tenement house or public place, during such time as in his judgment the preservation of the public health requires. Such prohibition shall be made by the service of a written notice to that effect upon the person so refusing to allow such culture or cultures to be taken. Any person who shall violate any order, rule, or regulation of the health commissioner contained in any such notice is guilty of a violation of this section.

(g) Any person, firm, or corporation having charge or general supervision of any school, factory, hotel, lodging house, tenement house, or public place, who or which shall knowingly permit the attendance at any school, factory, hotel, lodging house, tenement house, or public place of any person, contrary to the provisions of any such notice so served by the health commissioner, shall be guilty of a violation of this section.

(h) Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine or penalty of not more than $250 for each and every violation.

Smallpox-Vaccination May Be Required. (Ord. amended Nov. 30, 1917.)

SEC. 28. It shall be the duty of all persons within the city of Buffalo who have not been vaccinated to submit to vaccination, and all parents and guard

ians of minor children who have not been vaccinated within said city shall cause such children to submit to vaccination when in the interest of public health it may be deemed Lecessary by the health commissioner. It shall be the duty of the health commissioner and any city physician to vaccinate any person within said city who shall desire him to do so free of expense.

The health commissioner is authorized and empowered to cause to be vaccinated forthwith every inmate of a household in which a case of smallpox

occurs.

He is also authorized and empowered to cause to be vaccinated forthwith every person whom he has reasonable grounds to believe has been in contact with or exposed to a person having smallpox, or the excretions or secretions of such a person, or a carrier of smallpox.

CHICAGO, ILL.

Food Poisoning or Infection-Notification of Cases. (Ord. Jan. 11, 1917.)

SECTION 1. That the Chicago Code of 1911 be and the same is hereby amended by adding to article 20, chapter 38, the following section:

SEC. 13640. Food poisoning; cases to be reported.-It shall be the duty of every physician who attends or prescribes for, and of every superintendent or person in charge of any hospital admitting or caring for any person suffering from or suspected of suffering from food poisoning or infection, or any form of such poisoning or infection, either ptomaine, bacterial, or metallic, to at once make a report thereof by telephone to the commissioner of health, and to follow same by a report in writing, giving the name and address of the person thus afflicted, the nature of the poisoning or infection, and the source or probable source of the same.

CINCINNATI, OHIO.

Communicable Diseases-Attendance at Schools and Public Gatherings. (Ord. Dec. 11, 1918.)

SECTION 1. That section 936 of the code of ordinances of the city of Cincinnati be and the same is hereby amended, and section 936 as amended is hereby supplemented by ordaining sections 936-1 and 936-2; said amended and supplementary sections to read as follows:

SEC. 936. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons infected with or exposed to infection of influenza, infantile paralysis, cerebrospinal meningitis, measles, chicken pox, smallpox, whooping cough, cholera, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or any other communicable disease, to attend any public or parochial or private school, dance hall, public place of amusement, theater, motion-picture exhibition, lecture, or any other public or semipublic gathering of people.

SEC. 936-1. It shall be unlawful for the parents, guardians, or any other person having the charge, custody, or control of any child or children infected with or exposed to infection of influenza, infantile paralysis, cerebrospinal meningitis, measles, chicken pox, smallpox, whooping cough, cholera, scarlet fever, diphtheria, or any other communicable disease, to permit or allow such child or children to attend any public or parochial or private school, dance hall, public place of amusement, theater, motion-picture exhibition, lecture, or any other public or semipublic gathering of people.

SEC. 936-2. Any person who knowingly violates any of the provisions of the two preceding sections shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon con