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SEC. 6. Compensation for all appraisers appointed or selected pursuant to this act shall not exceed $5 per diem, and such compensation and their necessary traveling expenses shall be paid upon vouchers approved by the president of the board of agriculture and forestry.

SEC. 7. Following the appraisal of the tuberculous animals the amount of reimbursement shall be determined in accordance with the results of the post mortem inspection as follows:

(a) If any animal is found upon post-mortem examination not to be affected with tuberculosis, the carcass and other edible portions shall be pas ed for food and the owner shall sell the same including all accompanying parts at a fair market price which price shall be deducted from the amount of appraisal and the balance, if any thus remaining, shall be paid as hereinafter [hereinbefore?] provided.

(b) If any animal is found upon post mortem examination to be affected with tuberculosis and the lesions are such that the carcass and parts are passed for food, the owner shall sell the same at a fair market price which price shall be deducted from 80 per cent of the appraised value and the balance, if any thus remaining, shall be paid as hereinafter provided for.

e. If any animal upon post-mortem examination is condemned for offal the owner shall sell the hide at a fair market price which price shall be deducted from 50 per cent of the appraised value and the balance, if any thus remaining, shall be paid as hereinafter provided for.

SEC. 8. Any premises upon which there have been kept animals affected with tuberculosis shall be disinfected promptly after the removal of such animals and in a manner satisfactory to the Territorial veterinarian, his assistant or deputy and at the expense of the owner.

SEC. 9. The sum of $20,000 is herewith appropriated for the purpose of this act.

Foodstuffs-Adulteration and Misbranding. (Act 164, Apr. 28, 1917.)

SECTION 1. Subsection (b) of section 992 of the Revised Laws of Hawaii, 1915, is hereby amended to read as follows:

b) In the case of food:

1. If any substance or substances have been mixed with it so as to lower or depreciate or injuriously affect its quality, strength or purity;

2. If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it;

3. If any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it;

4. If it is an imitation of, or is manufactured, sold, kept for sale or offered for sale under the name of another article;

5. If it consists wholly or in part of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, tainted or rotten animal or vegetable substance, whether manufactured or not;

6. In the case of milk, if it is the produce of a diseased animal, or if it contains less than 11 per centum of total solids or 24 per centum of butter fat, or if it contains any preservative or antiseptic;

7. In the case of cream, if it contains less than 18 per centum of butter fat, or if it contains any preservative or antiseptic;

8. In the case of ice cream, if it contains less than 14 per centum of butter fat, except in the cases of fruit or nut ice cream, in which cases it shall contain not less than 12 per centum of butter fat; ice cream is a frozen product made from pure milk substances and sugar, with or without a natural flavoring and there may be permitted in its manufacture fresh eggs and not exceeding 1 per centum of pure gelatin, gum tragacanth or vegetable gum (the milk substances permitted are milk, cream, butter, condensed milk and skimmed milk. The use of an homogenizer, an emulsifier, or other apparatus

intended for the better mixing of the product is permitted. Any wholesome frozen dairy product made in the semblance of ice cream, but containing less than 14 per centum butter fat, may be sold, but not as ice cream);

9. In the case of poi, if it contains less than 30 per centum of total solids;

10. If it is colored, coated, polished or powdered whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or if by any means it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is;

11. If it contains any added substance or ingredient which is poisonous or injurious to health, or any deleterious substance not a necessary ingredient in its manufacture: Provided, That the provisions of this chapter shall not apply to mixtures or compounds recognized as ordinary articles of food, if the same be distinctly labeled as mixtures or compounds, and are not injurious to health, and contain no ingredient not necessary to the preparation of a genuine article of such mixtures or compounds, and from which no necessary ingredient in its preparation is eliminated.

Deaths-Registration-Burial and Removal Permits. (Reg. Bd. of H., Sept. 28,

1917.)

SEC. 103. Report of deaths.-All deaths occurring in the Territory of Hawaii must be reported in writing to the registrar of deaths with the name, sex, and age of the deceased, whether married or single the occupation, nationality, place of birth, place of death, date of death, duration of last illness, cause of death, names of the consulting and attending physicians, whether deceased was a resident or nonresident, and the cemetery where burial is intended.

Permits required.-No body of any dead person whose death occurs in the Territory shall be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, cremated, embalmed or otherwise disposed of. in the Territory, or removed from or into any registration district thereof, or be held pending further disposition more than 72 hours after death. unless a written burial or removal permit shall be given by the registrar or deputy registrar of births, deaths and marriages of the registration district in which the death occurs. Herbs and Plants-Investigation of Medicinal Properties and Value of Appropriation. (Act. 195, May 1, 1917.)

SECTION 1. The sum of $3,000 is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury of the Territory, received from general revenues not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the supervision and direction of the Territorial board of health for salaries and expenses of investigating the medicinal properties and value of herbs and plants grown in the Hawaiian Islands; and for enabling the Territorial board of health to publish a report of such investigation before the convening of the next legislature of Hawaii.

IDAHO.

Communicable Diseases-Notification of Cases-Isolation-Quarantine-Placarding-School Attendance-Disinfection—Burial-Library Books. (Reg. Bd. of H., June 21, 1917.)

The State Board of Health of Idaho hereby declares and publishes the following as contagious or infectious diseases, dangerous to public health, and which are required to be reported.

1. Asiatic cholera (cholerine).

2. Bubonic plague.

3. Cerebrospinal meningitis.

4. Chickenpox.

5. Diphtheria (membranous croup). 6. Infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis). 7. Leprosy.

8. Measles including German measles. 9. Rabies.

10. Scarlet fever (scarlatina).

11. Smallpox.

12. Trachoma.

13. Tuberculosis.

14. Typhoid fever.

15. Typhus fever.

16. Whooping cough.
17. Yellow fever.

18. Mumps.

19. Ophthalmia neonatorum.

RULE 8. It shall be the duty of every physician called to attend a person sick, or supposed to be sick, with any of the diseases declared, by the State board of health, to be contagious and infectious diseases, and dangerous to public health, within 24 hours after diagnosis is established to report, in writing, the name and residence of such person to the local board of health, or its proper officer, within whose jurisdiction such person is found; and where a person is taken sick with any of the aforesaid named diseases as are declared contagious and dangerous to the public health, by the State board of health, and a physician is not called, it shall in like manner be the duty of the owner or agent of the building in which such person resides, lives or is staying, or of the head of the family in which such disease occurs, to report, in writing, the name and residence of the patient to the local board of health or its proper officer.

RULE 9. No person suffering from Asiatic cholera (cholerine), yellow fever, infantile paralysis, smallpox, typhus fever, bubonic plague, diphtheria (membranous croup), cerebrospinal meningitis, scarlet fever (scarlatina), measles, or whooping cough, shall be admitted into any public, parochial, or private school, or college, or Sunday school, or shall enter any assemblage, or railway car, street car, vessel, or steamer, or other public conveyance.

RULE 10. No person shall be admitted into any public, parochial or private school, or college, or Sunday school from the premises of any family in which Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, infantile paralysis, smallpox, chickenpox, typhus fever, bubonic plague, diphtheria (membranous croup), cerebrospinal meningitis, scarlet fever (scarlatina), or measles exists.

RULE 11. No parent, guardian or other person having charge or control of any child or children shall allow or permit such child or children to go from the premises in which a case of Asiatic cholera (cholerine), yellow fever, infantile paralysis, smallpox, chickenpox, typhus fever, bubonic plague, diphtheria (scarlatina) [sic], or measles has recently occurred, without a permit from the board of health, or its proper officer. RULE 12. It shall be the duty of the health officer of every local board of health in this State, when a case of Asiatic cholera (cholerine), yellow fever, infantile paralysis.

smallpox, typhus fever, bubonic plague, diphtheria (membranous croup), cerebrospinal meningitis, or scarlet fever (scarlatina), is reported within his jurisdiction, to at once place, or cause to be placed in a conspicuous position on the house wherein any of the aforesaid diseases occur, a quarantine flag or card on which shall be inscribed in large letters the name of the disease and "contagious disease within," and to prohibit entrance or exit to or from such house, except for the attending physician and other necessary attendants, without a written permission from the board of health, or its health officer acting as such.

RULE 13. Immune contacts may be permitted to follow usual avocations if disinfected and removed from infected premises.

RULE 14. Any house or building, and its contents, in which a case of Asiatic cholera (cholerine), yellow fever, smallpox, typhus fever, bubonic plague, diphtheria (membranous croup), infantile paralysis, phthisis pulmonalis or consumption has occurred. shall be disinfected either by the owner or occupant, under the supervision of the board of health, or its proper officer, or in cases wherein the law provides by the board of health itself, in the manner recommended by the State board of health in its work under the head of disinfection.

RULE 15. Period of isolation and quarantine in certain contagious diseases shall be as follows:

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RULE 16. It shall be the duty of every county board of health and local board of health in the State of Idaho to have a supply of quarantine cards printed according to the following specifications:

Cards shall be printed on heavy card-board in letters not less than 24 inches high, with the following legend, “Contagious disease within," and name of disease, also "Entrance or exit from this building is absolutely prohibited."

Each county board of health shall also have printed a supply of warning cards with the legend, "Warning, contagious disease within," in letters not less than 2 inches in height, to be used in those diseases where rigid quarantine is not required and it shall be the duty of the health officer to whom such contagious diseases are reported to immediately affix, or cause to be affixed, to the front entry, or entries, of such building wherein disease exists a proper quarantine or warning card.

RULE 17. Buildings wherein contagious disease exists, and where terminal disinfection is required, shall be disinfected by, or under the directions of, the county health officer as follows:

Sheets moistened with a 40 per cent solution of formaldehyde are to be suspended in the room, or rooms, occupied by the patient at the conclusion of the disease, using one pint of 40 per cent solution of formaldehyde to each 1,000 cubic feet of air space. All clothing and bedding shall be spread out in such manner as to be properly brought under the influence of the formaldehyde gas.

Windows shall be sealed with strips of gummed paper before disinfection, and after the application of the solution of formaldehyde, the door of exit must be thoroughly sealed with gummed paper.

Duration of disinfection shall not be less than 6 hours.

Room, or rooms, must be thoroughly scrubbed and aired after disinfection.

RULE 18. Public funerals of persons dead of contagious diseases are absolutely prohibited.

Burial of persons dead of contagious diseases shall be within 24 hours of such death. Bodies of persons dead of contagious diseases shall be wrapped securely in a sheet saturated with 1 to 2,000 solution of bichloride of mercury before being placed in casket.

Casket containing the wrapped body of a person dead of contagious disease shall be hermetically sealed, and after sealing shall not again be opened.

RULE 19. Library books that have been kept in any building occupied by a person, or persons, suffering from contagious and infectious disease, dangerous to public health, shall not be returned to the library, but shall be destroyed by burning. County Boards of Health-Members-Duties. County Health Officers-Appointment-Duties. (Reg. Bd. of H., June 21, 1917.)

RULE 1. The county commissioners of each county shall appoint a licensed physician residing in the county who shall be known as the county health officer and who, together with such board of county commissioners shall constitute a county board of health.

RULE 2. Reasonable compensation shall be arranged for the services of the county health officer as the executive officer of the county board of health.

RULE 3. The county health officer is required to supervise the quarantining of all contagious and infectious diseases (as required by the State board of health) and the disinfection of persons and premises.

RULE 4. The county health officer shall make a monthly report to the secretary of the State board of health of all contagious and infectious diseases occurring within his jurisdiction, on blanks supplied by the State board of health.

RULE 5. The county health officer shall make sanitary inspections of public schools within his jurisdiction at the request of the county superintendent of public instruc

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