three hundred and seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and eight, as amended in section two by section one of chapter three hundred and seventyfive of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and nine, are hereby repealed. [Approved April 13, 1910. LAW RELATIVE TO COMMON DRINKING CUP. ACTS OF 1910, CHAPTER 428. AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE COMMON DRINKING CUP. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. In order to prevent the spread of communicable diseases, the state board of health is hereby authorized to prohibit in such public places, vehicles or buildings as it may designate the providing of a common drinking cup, and the board may establish rules and regulations for this purpose. SECTION 2. Whoever violates the provisions of this act, or any rule or regulation of the state board of health made under authority hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each offence. SECTION 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and ten. [Approved April 22, 1910. An official publication of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, issued monthly from the office of the Board, 145 State House, Boston, Mass. New Series. APRIL, 1910. Vol. 5. No. 4. ENTERED AT THE POST-OFFICE AT BOSTON, FEB. 15, 1906, AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER. ACT OF JULY 16, 1894. WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 18 POST OFFICE SQUARE. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE Weekly returns of deaths from cities and towns of more than 10,000 population, Weekly returns of deaths from certain infectious diseases, Law relative to the sealing of paper bottles and jars, Law relative to duties of State Inspectors of Health and State Board of Health, CITIES AND TOWNS. WEEKLY RETURNS OF DEATHS FROM CITIES AND TOWNS OF MORE THAN 10,000 POPULATION. 103 5 Holyoke, 53,590 29 Malden, 1012220 51 8 7 10 21 11 10 15 12 Recapitulation. Total of reporting towns, 2,401,701 990 254 368 227 71 7 5 9 1 The populations were estimated upon the rate of growth from 1900 to 1905. Those of Taunton, Gloucester, North Adams and Clinton were allowed to stand as in 1905, having shown no increase during the five-year period. The gain in the population of Lowell is due to the annexation of a part of the town of Tewksbury. The population of Lawrence by the census of 1905 was 70,050, but, owing to the building of the new Wood and Arlington mills, an increase of about 8,000 is estimated by the Lawrence Board of Health, or 78,000. |