container was filled with milk, cream, ice cream or some product of milk or cream and that the contents thereof were sold to a consumer to be consumed in that form only, and that such can, bottle or container was given to such consumer to have the temporary use thereof while the contents thereof were being consumed, or it was sold to such consumer, and that at the time of such sale or loaning of such can, bottle or container it was in a clean, sterilized, wholesome and sanitary condition; (3) that such can, bottle or container was withdrawn from use as a container or conveyor of milk, cream or other milk product except buttermilk or whey, prior to the time that the same became unclean, unsterilized, unwholesome and insanitary.

SEC. 5. Any person who shall violate any provision of this act, upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $5 nor more than $200 for each violation thereof. Any company, corporation or association violating any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $50 nor more than $500 for each violation. SEC. 6. The term "person" as used in this act, when not otherwise stated, includes corporations, firms, partnerships and associations, as well as natural persons.

SEC. 7. Justice courts, district courts and municipal courts sitting as justice courts, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts of all prosecutions arising under this act. The district or county attorney is authorized to institute prosecutions for violation of this act by information, or the same may be instituted by indictment or by complaint verified before any magistrate.

SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the dairy and food commissioner to enforce all the provisions of this act, and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect all of the provisions of this act; and further, it shall be unlawful for any person to violate any such rule or regulation.

Births and Deaths-Registration-Local Registrars-Deaths Occurring Without Medical Attendance-Contents of Birth Certificates. (Ch. 384, Act Feb. 21, 1917.)

SECTION 1. That section 3 of chapter 2681 of the general laws of the State of Oregon for the year 1915, passed at the 28th regular session of the legislative assembly, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 3. The health officers of each city and incorporated town of 2,000 population and over shall be the local registrar in and for such primary registration district and shall perform all the duties of local registrar as hereinafter provided: Provided, however, He shall receive no additional compensation therefor.

SEC. 2. That section 7 of chapter 268 of the general laws of the State of Oregon for the year 1915, passed at the 28th regular session of the legislative assembly, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 7. That in case of any death occurring without medical attendance and under circumstances not requiring an investigation by the coroner, it shall be the duty of the undertaker, or any person acting as such, to notify the local registrar of the registration district where such death occurs, of such death, and the local registrar shall at once investigate the circumstances of the case and make a certificate and return of death, noting upon the certificate the fact that such death occurred without medical attendance: Provided, If the local registrar is not a qualified physician and the cause of death is obscure or uncertain, the local registrar shall refer the case to the health officer having jurisdiction over the locality where the death occurred, for certification: And provided further, That if the circumstances of the case render it probable that the death was caused by unlawful means, the local registrar shall refer the case to the coroner.

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SEC. 3. That section 13 of chapter 268 of the general laws of Oregon for the year 1915, passed at the 28th regular session of the legislative assembly, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 13. That the certificate of birth shall contain the following items:

(1) Place and date of birth, including State, county, township or town, village of city. If in a city, the ward, street and house number; if in a hospital or other institution, the name of the same to be given, instead of the street and house number.

(2) Full name of the child. is filed enter the words "died unnamed." If the living child has not been named at the date of filing certificate of birth, the space for "full name of child" is to be left blank, to be filled out subsequently by a supplemental report, as hereinafter provided. (3) Sex of child.

If the child dies without a name before the certificate

(4) Whether a twin, triplet, or other plural birth. A separate certificate shall be required for each child in case of plural birth, giving the number of child in order of birth. (5) Whether legitimate or illegitimate.

(6) Residence of father.

(7) Color or race of father.

(8) Birthplace of father.

(9) Age of father at last birthday, in years.

(10) Occupation of father.

(11) Maiden name of mother, in full.

(12) Residence of mother.

(13) Color or race of mother.

(14) Birthplace of mother.

(15) Age of mother at last birthday, in years.

(16) Occupation of mother.

(17) Number of child of this mother, and number of children of this mother now living. (18) Whether precautions were taken against ophthalmia neonatorum.

(19) Whether alive or stillborn.

(20) Signature and address of physician or person reporting.

(21) Name of registrar.

(22) Date of filing.

Dead Bodies-Transportation. (Reg. Bd. of H., Sept. 22, 1917.)

RULE 1. A copy of the original death certificate on the standard certificate of death form, as signed by attending physician, permit of local registrar, and a transit label signed by a licensed embalmer, and initial baggage agent, shall be required for the transportation by common carriers of bodies of persons dying in this State. The death certificate shall contain such information as is required in the standard form of death certificate. The registrar's permit shall authorize the transportation of the body of the person described in the physician's certificate. The licensed embalmer shall state on the shipping label how the body is prepared, and the local baggage agent shall state thereon the route, name and address of escort.

The registrar's permit shall be given the escort, to be delivered with the body at destination. The shipping label shall be securely attached to the outside case. If the body is sent by express, the physician's certificate and the permit shall be attached to the express waybill and delivered with the body at the destination, and the shipping label shall be attached to the outside case.

RULE 2. The transportation of bodies dead of smallpox, plague, Asiatic cholera. typhus fever, diphtheria (membranous croup, diphtheretic sore throat), scarlet fever (scarlet rash, scarlatina), shall be permitted only under the following conditions: The body shall be thoroughly embalmed with an approved disinfectant fluid; all orifices shall be closed with absorbent cotton; the body shall be washed with the disinfectant fluid, enveloped in a sheet saturated with the same and placed at once

in the coffin or casket, which shall be immediately closed, and the coffin or casket or the outside case containing the same shall be metal, or metal lined, and hermetically and permanently sealed.

RULE 3. The transportation of bodies dead of any disease other than those mentioned in rule 2 shall be permitted under the following conditions:

(a) When the destination can be reached within 24 hours after death, the coffin or casket shall be encased in a strong outer box made of good sound lumber not less than seven-eighths of an inch thick, all joints must be tongued and grooved, top put on with cleats and crosspieces all put securely together, and be tightly closed with white lead, asphalt varnish or paraffin paint, and a rubber gasket placed on the upper edge between the lid and box.

(b) When the body can not reach its destination within 24 hours after death, the body shall be thoroughly embalmed and the coffin or casket placed in an outside case constructed as provided in paragraph (a).

RULE 4. No disinterred body dead of any disease or cause shall be transported by common carrier except by permit of the State board of health, and transit permit and transit label shall be required as provided in rule 1.

The disinterment of bodies dead of any disease or cause shall not be allowed except by permission of the State board of health.

All disinterred remains shall be enclosed in metal or metal-lined boxes and hermetically sealed: Provided, That bodies in a receiving vault, when properly embalmed by a licensed embalmer shall not be regarded as disinterred bodies until after the expiration of 30 days.

RULE 5. The outside case may be omitted in all instances where the casket or coffin is transported in hearse or undertaker's wagon.

RULE 6. Every outside case shall bear at least four handles and when over 5 feet 6 inches in length, shall bear six handles.

RULE 7. The term "approved disinfectant fluid," as used in these rules, means an embalming fluid that has been submitted to a bacteriological test and approved by the Oregon State Board of Health, or a fluid that contains not less than 5 per cent of formaldehyde gas; the term "embalming, "as employed in these rules, shall require the injection by licensed embalmers of not less than 10 per cent of the body weight, injected arterially in addition to cavity injection, and 12 hours shall elapse between the time of embalming and the shipment of the body. A 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid, a 1-500 solution of corrosive sublimate, or 14 per cent of a 40 per cent solution of formaldehyde are approved as disinfectants for external washing of bodies when required by these rules. Other prepared disinfectants of equal germicidal action may also be used.

RULE 8. Any corpse shipped originally from any registration district within the State of Oregon, accompanied by a properly executed transit permit, to any other primary registration district within the State, may be trans-shipped by surrendering the original transit permit to the local registrar and receiving in exchange a new transit permit, unless said body has been held over 30 days or has been interred, in which case proceed under rule 4.

If corpse is routed to point of final destination on original transit permit and is accompanied by ticket which allows stopover privileges, corpse may be held for funeral or for any other purpose temporarily at a stopover point without additional transit permit being required.

RULE 9. Transportation of any body by common carrier in the State of Oregon is prohibited unless the body has been prepared for transportation by a licensed embalmer holding a license as such, issued by the Oregon State Board of Health.

Hotels-Cleanliness-Drinking Water-Common Towels and Common Drinking Cups Prohibited-Bedding-Protection of Foodstuffs-Screening-Garbage Disposal-Toilets-Employees. Restaurants-Protection of Foodstuffs-Garbage Disposal. (Reg. Bd. of H., Sept. 22, 1917.)

1. It shall be the duty of every person keeping, managing, or operating a hotel to see that every room and bed which has been occupied by any person known to such keeper, proprietor, or operator to have any infectious, contagious, or communicable disease at the time of such occupancy to see that such room and bed are thoroughly disinfected in the method prescribed by the State board of health before permitting such room or bed to be occupied by any other person.

2. The proprietor or every hotel or restaurant shall keep the same clean and in a sanitary condition.

3. Every hotel or restaurant must be provided with pure and unpolluted water. The use of the common drinking cup is prohibited.

4. The proprietor or keeper of every hotel or restaurant must screen the doors, windows, and all openings of the kitchen and dining room with wire cloth or wire gauze with 18 mesh to the square inch. Every hotel must have all bedroom windows screened for protection against flies, mosquitoes, and other insects.

5. All hotels shall hereafter provide each bed, bunk, cot, or other sleeping place for the use of guests with pillow slips, under and top sheets. All such pillow slips and sheets after being used by one guest must be washed and ironed before being used by another guest, a clean set being furnished each succeeding guest.

6. All hotels shall furnish each guest with a clean towel, and the use of the roller towel is prohibited.

7. The refrigerator, ice boxes, and cold-storage rooms of all hotels or restaurants must be free from foul and unpleasant odors, mold and slime. The kitchen must be well lighted and ventilated, the floor clean, and the side walls and ceiling free from cobwebs and accumulated dirt.

8. All dishes, tableware, and kitchen utensils must be thoroughly washed and rinsed in clean water after using; food served to customers and then returned to the kitchen or serving room must not again be served.

9. All garbage must be kept covered in barrels or galvanized-iron cans and removed daily.

10. Spittoons must not be used in the dining room or other places where food is served.

11. Toilets for employees or public use shall not be located in rooms used for preparing or storing food.

12. Toilets with cesspools, on grounds adjoining hotels or summer resorts must at all times be kept in a sanitary condition and disinfected and moved at least once a year. 13. No person suffering from tuberculosis, ophthalmia, or any infectious or contagious disease, externally visible or not, or any skin disease, shall be employed in or about any part of a restaurant or its kitchen, or handle any foodstuffs or products used therein.

14. All restaurants shall provide, in places where foodstuffs are kept, prepared. cooked, or served to customers, full protection from dust, dirt, flies, and vermin, by glass cases, wire screens, and other modern methods, and shall cause the abatement and destruction of vermin and flies wherever found.

15. All restaurants shall be equipped with covered metallic cans for retaining and keeping their garbage and waste in a sanitary manner, which shall be kept in such place and manner as will preclude nuisance and contamination of the kitchen and such rooms from odors and from all possibilities therefrom, and when necessary shall use disinfectants.

16. No hotel shall keep a hogpen or stable nearer than 200 feet therefrom.

Mental Defectives-Sterilization.

(Ch. 279, Act Feb. 19, 1917.)

SECTION 1. There is hereby established and constituted for the State of Oregon a State board of eugenics which shall be composed of the State board of health, the superintendent of the Oregon State Hospital, the superintendent of the Eastern Oregon State Hospital, the superintendent of the State institution for feeble-minded, and the superintendent of the Oregon State Penitentiary, whose duties shall be as hereinafter defined. The secretary of the State board of health shall serve as the secretary of said board, and the members of said board shall serve without compensation.

SEC. 2. It shall be, and it is hereby declared, the duty of the superintendent of the Oregon State Hospital, the superintendent of the Eastern Oregon State Hospital, the superintendent of the State institution for feeble-minded, and the superintendent of the Oregon State Penitentiary to report quarterly, to the State board of eugenics, all feeble minded, insane, epileptic, habitual criminals, moral degenerates and sexual perverts, who are persons potential to producing offspring who, because of inheritance of inferior or antisocial traits, would probably become a social menace, or a ward of the State.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State board of eugenics to examine into the innate traits, the mental and physical conditions, the personal records, and the family traits and histories of all persons so reported so far as the same can be ascertained, and for this purpose said board shall have the power to summon witnesses, and any member of said board may administer an oath to any witness whom it is desired to examine; and if in the judgment of a majority of the said board procreation by any such person would produce children with an inherited tendency to feeble mindedness, insanity, epilepsy, criminality or degeneracy, and there is no probability that the condition of such person so examined will improve to such an extent as to render procreation by any such person advisable, or if the physical or mental condition of any such person will be substantially improved thereby, then it shall be the duty of said board to make an order directing the superintendent of the institution in which the inmate is confined to perform or cause to be performed upon such inmate such a type of sterilization as may be deemed best by said board.

SEC. 4. The purpose of said investigation, findings and orders of said board shall be for the betterment of the physical, mental, neural, or psychic condition of the inmate, or to protect society from the menace of procreation by said inmate, and not in any manner as a punitive measure; and no person shall be emasculated under the authority of this act except that such operation shall be found to be necessary to improve the physical, mental, neural or psychic condition of the inmate.

SEC. 5. After fully inquiring into the condition of each of such inmates said board shall make separate written findings for each of the inmates whose condition has been examined into, and the same shall be preserved in the records of the said board, and a copy thereof shall be furnished to the superintendent of the institution in which the inmate is confined, and if an operation is deemed necessary by said board, then a copy of the order of said board shall forthwith be served on said inmate, or in case of an insane person upon his legal guardian, and if such insane person have no legal guardian then upon his nearest known kin within the State of Oregon, and if such insane person have no known kin within the State of Oregon, then upon the custodian guardian of such insane person.

SEC. 6. Any such inmate desiring to appeal from the decision of the said board, or in case the person is under guardianship or disability, then the guardian of said inmate may take an appeal to the circuit court of the county in which the institution, in which the inmate is confined, is located.

An informal notice of appeal filed with the secretary of said board, either by the inmate or someone in his behalf, shall be all that is necessary to make the appeal: Provided, Said notice shall be filed within 15 days of the date when notice of the