MINNESOTA.

Communicable Diseases-Notification of Cases. (Reg. Bd. of H., Aug. 2, 1917.)

300. Notification within 24 hours by telegram or telephone shall be given by the attending physician to the division of preventable diseases of the State board of health (University Campus, Minneapolis), when called to a case or suspected case of: Malaria.

Actinomycosis.
Anthrax.

Paragonimiasis.

Or when a death occurs from any of these diseases.

301. Notification within 24 hours by the regular reporting postcard or special blank provided shall be made by the attending physician (or other person as specified) to the local health officer in cities and villages and to the chairman of the board of supervisors in townships, of each case or suspected case of:

Ophthalmia Neonatorum-Notification of Cases-Prevention. (Reg. Bd. of H., Aug. 2, 1917.)

96. Ophthalmia neonatorum defined.—Any condition of the eye or eyes of an infant, independent of the nature of the infection, in which there is any inflammation, swelling, or redness, in either one or both eyes of any such infant, either apart from, or together with, any unnatural discharge from the eye or eyes of any such infant within two weeks of the birth of such infant, shall be known as ophthalmia neonatorum.

97. Duties of physicians, midwives, and others. It shall be the duty of any physician or midwife in attendance on, or in charge of, a confinement case to treat the eyes of every new-born babe with a 1 per cent solution of silver nitrate.

98. It shall be the duty of any midwife immediately to call a legally licensed physician in every case in which symptoms of inflammation develop in one or both eyes of infants under her care.

99. It shall be the duty of any physician, surgeon, obstetrician, midwife, nurse, maternity home, or hospital of any nature, parent, relative, and any person or persons attendant on, or assisting in any way whatsoever, any woman at childbirth, or attend

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ant on, or assisting in any way whatsoever, any infant, or the mother of any infant, at any time within two weeks after childbirth, knowing the condition hereinabove defined to exist, and within eight hours thereafter, to report such fact, as the State board of health shall direct, to the local health officer of the city, village, or township within which the infant is cared for.

100. Duties of maternity homes, physicians, etc.—It shall be the duty of all maternity homes and of hospitals, public and charitable institutions to maintain such records of cases of ophthalmia neonatorum as the State board of health shall direct. It shall be the duty of any and all maternity homes, hospitals, public and charitable institutions, and all other institutions having the care of any infant, in addition to reporting as hereinbefore provided, to employ a licensed physician in the treatment of the conditions described in regulation 96.

101. Duties of the local health officer.-It shall be the duty of the local health officer: (a) To investigate each case as filed with him in pursuance with the law, and any other such case as may come to his attention.

(b) To report all cases of ophthalmia neonatorum, and the result of all such investigations as he shall make, as the State board of health shall direct.

(c) To conform to such other rules and regulations as the State board of health shall promulgate for his further guidance.

Poliomyelitis-Isolation of Children Having Fever when Disease Is Present in a Locality. (Reg. Bd. of H., Aug. 2, 1917.)

405. Whenever poliomyelitis prevails in a locality, the local board of health shall cause a search for, and a careful examination of, all ill children to be made, and all children with fever shall be isolated pending the diagnosis.

Communicable Diseases-Control-Employment of Medical and Other Help by Local Officials. (Ch. 427, Act Apr. 20, 1917.)

SECTION 1. That section 4646 of the General Statutes of Minnesota, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 4646. The health officer in a municipality or the chairman of the board of supervisors in a township, shall employ at the cost of the health district over which his local board of health has jurisdiction and in which the person afflicted with a communicable disease is located, all medical and other help necessary in the control of such communicable disease, or for carrying out within such jurisdiction the lawful regulations and directions of the State board of health, its officers, or employees, and upon his failure so to do the State board of health may employ such assistance at the expense of the district involved. Any person whose duty it is to care for himself or another afflicted with a communicable disease shall be liable for the reasonable cost thereof to the municipality or town paying such cost, excepting that the municipality or town constituting such district shall be liable for all expense incurred in establishing, enforcing, and releasing quarantine, half of which may be recovered from the county as provided for under sections 4647 and 4648, General Statutes of 1913.

State Board of Health-Regulations-Powers. (Ch. 345, Act Apr. 17, 1917.) SECTION 1. Section 4640, General Statutes 1913, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

4640. The board may adopt, alter and enforce reasonable regulations, of permanent application throughout the whole or any portion of the State, or for specified periods in parts thereof, for the preservation of the public health. Upon the approval of the attorney general, and the due publication thereof, such regulations shall have the force of law, except in so far as they may conflict with a statute or with the charter

or ordinances of a city of the first class upon the same subject. In and by the same the board may control, by requiring the taking out of licenses or permits, or by other appropriate means, any of the following matters:

1. The manufacture into articles of commerce, other than food, of diseased, tainted or decayed animal or vegetable matter;

2. The business of scavengering and the disposal of sewage;

3. The location of mortuaries and cemetaries and the removal and burial of the dead;

4. The management of lying-in houses and boarding places for infants and the treatment of infants therein;

5. The pollution of streams and other waters, and the distribution of water by private persons for drinking or domestic use;

6. The construction and equipment, in respect to sanitary conditions, of schools, hospitals, almshouses, prisons and other public institutions, and of lodging houses and other public sleeping places kept for gain;

7. The treatment, in hospitals and elsewhere, of persons suffering from communicable diseases, including all manner of venereal disease and infection, the disinfection and quarantine of persons and places in case of such disease, and the reporting of sicknesses and deaths therefrom;

7-A. The prevention of infant blindness and infection of the eyes of the newly born by the designation of a prophylactic to be used in such cases and in such manner as the board may direct, unless specifically objected to by the parents or a parent of such infant;

8. The furnishing of vaccine matter; the assembling, during epidemics of smallpox, with other persons not vaccinated. But no rule of the State board or of any public board or office shall at any time compel the vaccination of a child, or shall exclude, except during epidemics of smallpox, and when approved by the local board of education, a child from the public schools, for the reason that such child has not been vaccinated. Any person thus required to be vaccinated may select for said purpose any licensed physician, and no rule shall require the vaccination of any child whose physician shall certify that by reason of his physical condition vaccination would be dangerous;

9. The accumulation of filthy and unwholesome matter to the injury of the public health, and the removal thereof; and

10. The collection, recording and reporting of vital statistics by public officers, and the furnishing of information to such officers, by physicians, undertakers and others, of births, deaths, causes of death and other pertinent facts.

Water Supplies, Sewage and Refuse Disposal-Plans to be Approved by State Board of Health. (Reg. Bd. of H., Aug. 2, 1917.)

200. No system of water supply, sewerage, or refuse disposal for public use, which affects or tends to affect public health, shall be installed, nor shall any such existing system be materially altered or extended, until complete plans and specifications for the installation, alteration, or extension, together with such information as the State board of health may require, have been submitted in duplicate and approved by the board so far as relates to their sanitary features. All construction shall take place in accordance with the plans as approved, whether with or without modification. Whenever any governing body of any municipality having charge thereof shall determine that there shall be any material change in the plans, construction, or operation of any such system, such governing body shall submit to the State board of health, in duplicate, a detailed statement of such action and such contemplated changes before it shall enter upon the making of such changes or enter into any contract therefor or any part thereof, and then such changes shall only be made after approval as to all matters liable to affect public health, by the State board of health.

Water and Sewer Connections in Villages-Installation of Toilets. (Ch. 203, Act Apr. 12, 1917.)

SECTION 1. Whenever any village in the State of Minnesota, having power to do so, installs, builds and constructs a municipal sewer and water plant within its corporate limits along any public street or alley, it shall be the duty of every owner or occupant of any abutting property platted into lots and blocks having a dwelling house or business property situate thereon to install a toilet in said dwelling or business property, and make connection thereof with the water and sewer in the street or alley adjacent thereto, within 30 days after written notice is given to such owner or occupant to install such toilet and make such connection by the governing body of such village, and the authority to give such notice may by ordinance of such village be delegated to any elective or appointive officer of such village and when the owner or occupant of any property so notified in writing to install a toilet and make sewer and water connection shall for 30 days after such written notice is given, and proof of the service of such notice shall fail, refuse and neglect to make such connection and install such toilet, such governing body may by resolution direct that a toilet be installed and connection made with sewer and water and that the cost of said installation be paid in the first instance by the village out of the general fund of revenue, and the actual cost thereof assessed against the said property benefited; after such installation and connection is completed there shall be served a written notice of such assessment and an order directing the owner or his or her representative of such property to pay said assessment and within 10 days after the service of said written notice, to the treasurer of such village, and after proof of such notice and order and that assessmert has not been paid within said 10 days the same shall be certified to the county auditor for collection as other assessments for benefits except that such assessment may be spread over a term of three years if so requested when certified, and shall become a lien upon said property until paid.

SEC. 2. Any person who shall in any way interfere with the carrying out of the provisions of this act shall be, when convicted subject to punishment by a fire of not less than $25 nor more than $100, or to imprisonment in the county jail for not more than three months or by both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the trial court. Births and Deaths-Registration-Certified Copies of Records. (Ch. 220, Act Apr. 14, 1917.)

SECTION 1. Section 4651, General Statutes, 1913, is hereby amended so as to read a follows:

4651. The physician or midwife attending at the birth of any child, or, if there is no attending physician or licensed midwife, the father or mother, shall, within 10 days thereafter, subscribe and file with the local registrar of the district within which the birth occurs, a certificate of birth specifying:

Place of birth, including State, county, city, village or town with the street and house number, if any, or in lieu thereof the name of the hospital or other private, public or State institution, if in such institution.

Full name of child. If the child dies without being named before the certificate is filed enter the word "unnamed" with date of death.

Male or female.

Whether one of twins, triplets or other plural birth and the number in order of birth. Legitimate or no.

Date of birth, including year, month, day and hour.

Full name of father: Provided, That if the child is illegitimate the name or residence of, or other identifying details relating to, the putative father shall not be entered without his consent, except as provided in section 4660-A.

Residence of the father.

Color or race of father-as white, colored, Indian, Chinese or other.

Age of father at last birthday.

Birthplace of father; State or foreign country.

Occupation of father with a statement of the trade, profession or particular kind of work; or the general nature of the industry or business engaged or employed in.

Full maiden name of mother.

Residence of mother.

Color or race of mother-as white, colored, Indian, Chinese or other.

Age of mother at last birthday.

Birthplace of mother; State or foreign country.

Occupation of the mother with a statement of the trade, profession or particular kind of work; or the general nature of the industry or business engaged or employed in. Number of children born to this mother, including present birth.

Number of children born of this mother now living.

The fact of attendance and that the birth occurred at the time stated.

Date of making and address of the person subscribing.

If the child is one of a plural birth a separate certificate for each child shall be filed. When the birth occurs in any lying-in hospital or in any private, public, charitable or State institution, without attendance by a physician or licensed midwife, the superintendent, manager or person in charge shall make and file the certificate of birth.

If the birth occurs in any hotel, rooming or boarding house, or in any private dwelling or apartment other than the home of the parents, the keeper or occupant shall immediately notify the local registrar of that fact. The local registrar shall then procure the necessary information and signature for a proper certificate of birth.

The attending physician or midwife shall deliver to the parents a blank for a supplemental report of the given name if the child is not named at the time of making the certificate of birth.

When a certificate of birth is filed without the given or baptismal name the local registrar shall deliver to the parents a blank for a supplemental report of the name. Such supplemental report shall be made and filed with the local registrar as soon as the child is named. If such report is not filed within 30 days from the date of birth the local registrar shall obtain such name by other means.

SEC. 2. Section 4652, General Statutes, 1913, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

4652. The undertaker, or person acting as such, at the burial of any person dying in this State shall obtain and file with the local registrar of the district in which the death occurs, a certificate of death containing:

A statement, authenticated by the signature of some person cognizant of the facts "pecifying:

Place of death, including State, county, city, village or town, with the name of the street and house number, or in lieu thereof, the name of the hospital or other private, public or State institution, if in such institution. If in an industrial or mining camp, or mine, the name of the camp or mine.

Full name of deceased. If an unnamed child the surname preceded by "unnamed."

Male or female.

Color or race-as white, colored, Indian, Chinese or other.

Single, married, widowed or divorced.

Date of birth, including year, month and day.

Age in years, months and days. If less than one day, the hours or minutes.

Occupation. If the person had any remunerative employment, statement of the trade, profession, or particular kind of work; or the general nature of the industry or business engaged or employed in.

Birthplace; State or foreign country.