Alcohol.-Alcohol as ordinarily taken is not a stimulant but a depressing drug. Your brain and nervous system govern your body. Alcohol not only reduces the efficiency of a nation, but life insurance experience has shown that the death rate among steady drinkers supposed to be temperate-even within the bounds of so-called moderation-is nearly double that among average people. Drink may lead you into trouble, possibly to a miserable death. Why deliberately expose yourself to this sort of machine-gun fire? Nervous and mental diseases. Such conditions should be closely observed by your physician or at some clinic for nervous diseases. Some nervous diseases are due to bad mental habits, to fear, failure to take a courageous grip on life and forget one's troubles. Many nervous diseases are caused by physical conditions which should be sought for and cured by a thorough medical examination and treat ment. Miscellaneous conditions.-Nose and throat trouble, gall bladder trouble, chronic appendicitis, skin affections-all such conditions should have immediate medical investigation. If you have no family physician, or if your means are limited, seek hospital or dispensary treatment. Do not go through life with handicaps that may be easily removed. Do not shorten your life, reduce your earning capacity and capacity for enjoying life, by neglecting your bodily condition. While other men are cheerfully facing death for the cause of liberty. do not shrink from facing a little trouble and expense to make yourself strong and healthy and fit. Do your part to make the nation fit! "It is not an Army we must shape and train for war; it is a Nation.” Examiners will render a service in the interest of public health and therefore a military service apart from the possible reclamation of declined registrants by handing the leaflet to declined or special classified men with a check opposite the important impairments. ADDITIONAL COPIES OF TIS PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS WASHINGTON, D. C. 5 CENTS PER COPY UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE HUGH S. CUMMING, SURGEON GENERAL STATE LAWS AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO PUBLIC HEALTH 1917 COMPILED BY JASON WATERMAN, LL. B. AND WILLIAM FOWLER, LL. B. SUPPLEMENT No. 37 TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE UNITED STATES PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE. HUGH S. CUMMING, Surgeon General. DIVISION OF SANITARY REPORTS AND STATISTICS. Asst. Surg. GEN. B. S. WARREN, Chief of Division. State and municipal health departments and reference libraries can obtain copies of this publication by addressing the Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service, Washington. The PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS are issued weekly by the United States Public Health Service through its Division of Sanitary Reports and Statistics, pursuant to acts of Congress approved February 15, 1893, and August 14, 1912. They contain: (1) Current information of the prevalence and geographic distribution of preventable diseases in the United States in so far as data are obtainable, and of cholera, plague, smallpox, typhus fever, yellow fever, and other communicable diseases throughout the world. (2) Articles relating to the cause, prevention, or control of disease. (3) Other pertinent information regarding sanitation and the conservation of the public health. The PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS are intended primarily for distribution to health officers, members of boards or departments of health, and those directly or indirectly engaged in or connected with public health or sanitary work. Articles of general or special interest are issued as reprints from the PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS or as supplements, and in these forms are available for general distribution to those desiring them. Requests for and communications regarding the PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS, reprints, or supplements should be addressed to the Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. 2 CONTENTS. For arrangement of matter by subjects, consult the index. Page. Common drinking cups and common towels-Prohibited in public places. Bureau of sanitation-Establishment-Employees. Hotels, restaurants, and rooming houses-License...... Births and deaths-Registration districts-Appointment and fees of local Rocky Mountain spotted fever, paratyphoid fever, lobar pneumonia- Lobar pneumonia-Substituted for "pneumonia" in list of reportable Certain communicable diseases-Notification of cases-Instructions to household-Investigation by health authorities-Isolation-Disinfec- tion-Contacts-Attendance at schools and children's gatherings-In- Smallpox-Notification of cases-Precautions by physician-Instructions to household-Investigation by health officer-Quarantine-Contacts— Communicable diseases-Notification of cases-Measures to prevent spread. Local health officers-Appointment-Duties. Supervision of sanitation in cities and towns............. Poliomyelitis and cerebrospinal meningitis Required to be quarantined.. Leprosy-Transportation of infected persons-Escape from isolation to be Venereal diseases-Notification of cases- structions to patient-Local health officers appointed inspectors-In- vestigation and control by local health officers-Reports of unusual Venereal diseases-Standards for dispensaries and hospitals... Communicable diseases Pesthouses or hospitals-Prohibition against Bureau of vital statistics-Maintenance-Duty of State registrar..... State board of health-Employees-Appointment and compensation.. Health officers-Appointment in unincorporated cities and towns-Law Local health districts-Organization, government, and dissolution. Lo- cal district health officers-Appointment, powers, and duties....... Local milk inspection departments-Approval by State dairy bureau- Dairy inspectors-Grading of milk-Date of pasteurization required- Milk, butter, ice cream, and other milk products-Production, care, and sale-Grading-Local inspection service..... Slaughtering Inspection of animals-Fees-Marking of carcasses. Eggs which have been in transit 31 days or more-Sale... Shellfish-Taking from contaminated sources prohibited-Duties of State Foods and drugs-Standard of purity-Analyses-Condemnation. State laboratory-Establishment-Appointment and duties of officers.......... Births, deaths, and marriages-Registration-Establishment of bureau of vital statistics-Appointment, powers, and duties of State registrar- Burial and removal permits-Certified copies of records.... Hotels Sanitary regulation-Bedding-Ventilation-Individual towels.. Swimming pools and bathing places-Supervision by State board of health-Permits for construction and operation-Nuisances under certain Nurses Examination and registration-False representations and im- personations prohibited-Collection, investment, and disbursement of Plumbers Examination, certification, and registration.... Social insurance-Investigation by commission.. Wiping rags-Must not be washed by machinery used for washing clothing. Factories-State and local health authorities to be notified of existence of Canneries-Floors Toilets-Sanitary napkins-Drinking water-Common Habit-forming drugs-Sale and dispensing.... Cannabis sativa-Use or cultivation unlawful... Plumbing-Inspection and regulation-Examination and licensing of Venereal diseases-Investigation of, in State institutions by commission.. Tuberculosis Private sanatoriums-Inspection-State aid...... .. ... State department of health-Organization-Commissioner of health- Public health council-Sanitary code-Sanitary districts... Milk and cream-Board to regulate production, care, and sale-Appeals to and from board-Sale of insanitary dairy products prohibited.. |