provisions of this act shall not prevent the discharge of sewage from any private sewerage system or any public sewerage system owned and operated by a municipality, provided such sewerage system was in operation and was discharging sewage into the waters of the State or was in process of construction, on the date of the passage of this act, or to any sewerage system for which the plans shall have been submitted to and approved by the State board of health; nor shall the provisions of this act prevent the discharge into the waters of the State of sewage from any existing plant or sewerage system owned and maintained by any person or private corporation; but these exceptions shall not permit the continuance or increase of any pollution of the waters of the State which is prejudicial to the public health.

Sewage and Refuse Disposal-Assistance to Persons, Corporations, or Municipalities by State Board of Health-Commission to Assist State Board of Health. (Ch. 361, Act May 16, 1917.)

SECTION 1. The State board of health, acting with the persons to be appointed under the provisions of this act, is authorized to make such investigations and employ such expert assistance as may be necessary to enable it to carry out the provisions of section 9 of chapter 2845 of the public acts of 1915, concerning pollution of the waters of this State.

SEC. 2. To assist the State board of health in carrying out the provisions of section 1 of this act, the governor shall, within 60 days after the passage of this act, appoint five persons to act with the State board of health in such investigations. At least two of such persons shall be men recognized as experienced in sanitation, and at least two of such persons shall be manufacturers. The persons appointed under the provisions of this act shall serve without compensation.

SEC. 3. For the purposes of this act the sum of $25,000 is appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Disinfectants-Labeling-Misbranding. (Ch. 314, Act May 16, 1917.)

The receptacle containing any disinfectant for external use the phenol coefficient of which can be determined by a bactericidal test, manufactured, sold or offered for sale within the State shall bear a label showing the carbolic acid coefficient or relative germicidal value of such preparation as compared with pure carbolic acid. The relative germicidal value of a disinfectant shall be determined by the application of either the Rideal-Walker or the hygienic laboratory method. Any such disinfectant shall be misbranded if the statement contained on the label is false. Any person who shall misbrand any disinfectant within the meaning of this act or shall sell or offer the same for sale shall be fined not more than $100, or imprisoned not more than 60 days, or both.

Tenement, Lodging, and Boarding Houses-Cleanliness-Receptacles for Garbage, Refuse, and Ashes. (Ch. 227, Act May 3, 1917.)

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Section 2 of chapter 220 of the public acts of 1911 is amended to read as follows Every tenement, lodging or boarding house, and every part thereof, shall be kept clean and free from any accumulation of dirt, filth, garbage or other matter, in or on the same, or in the yards, courts, passages, areas or alleys connected with or belonging to the same. The owner, tenant, lessee or occupant of every tenement, lodging or boarding house, or part of such house, shall cleanse thoroughly all rooms, passages, stairs, floors, windows, doors, walls, ceilings, privies, water-closets, cesspools, drains, halls, cellars, roofs, and all other parts of such house, or the part of such house of which he is the owner, tenant, lessee, or occupant, to the approval of the board of health, Pub. Health Repts. Reprint 200, p. 28.

Pub. Health Repts. Reprint 338, p. 122.

and shall keep the same in a cleanly condition at all times. The owner of every tenement house shall provide, for such building, suitable receptacles for, or convenience for the disposal of garbage, ashes, and rubbish.

Health Insurance and Pasteurization Plants—Investigation by Commission. (Ch. 163, Act Apr. 19, 1917.)

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SECTION 1. The governor shall, on or before July 1, 1917, appoint five commissioners matter of to investigate the health insurance; pasteurization plants;

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and to report to the next general assembly. Said commissioners shall serve without pay, but may incur such expenses as are authorized by the board of control.

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Ophthalmia Neonatorum-Notification of Cases-Prevention. (Ch. 51, Act Apr. 2, 1917.)

SECTION 1. Any inflammation, swelling, or redness in either one or both eyes of any infant, either apart from or together with any unnatural discharge from the eye or eyes of such infant, independent of the nature of the infection, if any, occurring any time within two weeks after the birth of such infant, shall be known as "inflammation of the eyes of the newborn."

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of any physician, surgeon, obstetrician, midwife, nurse, maternity home or hospital of any nature, parent, relative, and any persons attendant on or assisting in any way whatsoever, any infant or the mother of an infant at childbirth, or any time within two weeks after childbirth, knowing the condition hereinabove defined to exist, within 6 hours thereafter to report such fact to the local health officer of the city, town, village, or whatever other political division there may be, within which the infant or the mother of any such infant may reside, and it shall be the duty of the local health officer to investigate or to have investigated, each case as filed with him in pursuance with the law, and any other such case as may come to his attention.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of physicians, midwives, or other persons in attendance upon cases of childbirth to use some prophylactic against inflammation of the eyes of the newborn and to made record of the prophylactic used, and to endorse the details thereof on every birth certificate.

SEC. 4. Whoever, being a physician, surgeon, midwife, obstetrician, nurse, parent, relative, or person attendant upon or assisting at the birth of any infant, shall violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than $5 nor more than $100.

State Board of Health—Organization-Secretary-Compensation

Meetings. (Ch. 50, Act Apr. 9, 1917.)

of Members—

That chapter 25, of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by repealing 737, section 2 thereof, and by substituting in lieu thereof the following section, to be styled as 737, section 2.

737. SEC. 2. The said board of health shall annually organize by electing a president who shall be a member of said board. Said board shall also elect a secretary who may be a member of said board. The secretary shall continue in office as such until removed by the election of a successor, or by a vote of the majority of the board. He shall be executive officer of said board, and shall receive an annual salary to be fixed by the board. The members of the board of health shall not receive a salary, but shall receive $5 and their necessary expenses for each meeting of the board: Provided, however, That ro member shall be paid for more than six meetings in any one year. For all meetings of the said board of health in excess of the six meetings in any one year, any member in attenance shall be paid his actual expenses for such attendance: Provided further, however, Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as to prevent the said board of health employing any of its members or any other person or persons for special services at a reasonable compensation. The board of health shall meet at least once in every three months, and oftener if necessary, and four members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The board shall have power to adopt rules and by-laws for their government, subject to the provisions of sections 1 to 9 inclusive.

State Board of Health—Seals-Powers and Duties-Reports to Legislature—Annual Meeting. Local Boards of Health-Appointment-Officers. (Ch. 49, Act Apr. 25, 1917.)

That chapter 25 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sections to be styled as 736A. section IA; 798A. section 63A; and the same chapter 25 is hereby amended by repealing 739 section 4 thereof, 745 section 10 thereof, 786 section 51 thereof, and by substituting in lieu thereof the following sections to be styled as 739 section 4, 745 section 10, 786 section 51:

736A. SEC. 1A. The State board of health shall have a seal, which shall contain the words, "State Board of Health of Delaware 1879." Every certificate or other official paper executed by the secretary of the State board of health, in pursuance of any authority conferred by law, and bearing the seal of the board, shall be received as evidence, when duly certified by the secretary of said board under its seal, with the same force and effect as the original would, in law, be entitled to, if produced in open court. 798A. SEC. 63A. The State board of health shall have a seal, which shall contain the words, "State Board of Health of Delaware, Bureau of Vital Statistics 1913." Every certificate or other official paper executed by the secretary of the State board of health acting in his capacity as State registrar, in pursuance of any authority conferred by law, and bearing the seal of the board, shall be received as evidence, when duly certified by the secretary of said board, under its seal, with the same force and effect as the original would, in law, be entitled to, if produced in open court.

The State board of health shall have a seal for each vital statistic registration district which shall contain the words, "State Board of Health of Delaware, Bureau of Vital Statistics 1913" with the respective county and district inscribed therein. Every certificate or other official paper executed by any local registrar of the State board of health, in pursuance of any authority conferred upon him by law, and bearing the seal as herein described, shall be received as evidence, when duly certified by the said local registrar under its seal, with the same force and effect as the original would, in law, be entitled to, if produced in open court.

739. SEC. 4. Said board shall be an advisory board to the authorities of the State in all matters pertaining to public hygiene; it shall have authority to make special inspection of hospitals, prisons, asylums, almhouses [almshouses] and other public institutions, and to investigate by the secretary or committees of the board the cause of any special disease or mortality in any part of the State, and to make such regulations and adopt such measures including quarantine, vaccination, etc., as it may deem best efficient to eradicate all infectious diseases. In localities where there are no local boards of health, or where the same shall refuse or neglect to act, the president may direct any member of the board, or the secretary, to investigate all complaints made in writing, and if the said member shall find a nuisance to exist he shall order the same to be abated in a reasonable time. In such cases the State board shall have all power and remedies given by law to local boards; if no person responsible for said nuisance be found, the secretary shall abate the same, and his expenses shall, upon approval by the president, be paid by the treasurer of the county wherein said nuisance existed. Said State board shall, at each regular session of the legislature, submit to it a report of its acts, investigations and discoveries with such suggestions as may be deemed proper. Five hundred copies of said report shall be printed and bound in linen, and 300 paper bound, for exchange and distribution by the State board of health.

745. SEC. 10. The common council of every city and the commissioners of every incorporated town in the State, except in the city of Wilmington, shall appoint in January of each year, a board of health for such city or town, to consist of not less than three nor more than seven persons, of whom at least one should be a physician duly

authorized to practice medicine, and who shall hold said office until their successors are appointed; and in case there be a port physician appointed by the governor, he shall be a member of the board ex-officio. In case the said common council or the said commissioners are unsuccessful in securing persons to act on said board, then the said common council or the said commissioners are and shall be the board of health for such city or town, and shall perform all duties and offices said board of health should perform, and be subject to all laws applicable to local boards of health.

The said local boards of health shall elect annually from among their own members a president and a secretary of such board, and shall meet not less than once in every three months. The secretary of the board shall keep the minutes of the meetings of the board, and shall perform all such duties as shall be assigned to him by the board for which services he shall receive such compensation as the city council, or commissioners of the respective cities or towns may determine.

786. SEC. 51. The regular annual meeting of the State board of health shall be held on the first Thursday of April of each and every year, at which meeting the pathologist and bacteriologist shall be elected by the said board.

State Board of Health-Committee to Investigate Administration of. (Ch. 300, Res. Mar. 1, 1917.)

SECTION 1. That a committee consisting of two members of the senate to be appointed by the president pro tempore, and three members of the house to be appointed by the speaker, be appointed to investigate the office of the Board of Health of the State of Delaware, with a view to ascertain if that office can not be administered upon a more economical basis, without impairing its efficiency, and whether or not, in the judgment of the committee, the office should not be transferred from its present quarters in a private building, to the statehouse or county building at Dover.

SEC. 2. The chairman of said committee is hereby authorized to issue process to compel the attendance of witnesses before said committee, and to administer oathand affirmations to witnesses at hearings of said committee, and any summons or other process may be served by the sergeant-at-arms of the senate or house.

State Tuberculosis Commission-Powers and Duties-Care of Indigent PatientsSanatorium for Colored Persons-Appropriations. (Ch. 53, Act Apr. 2, 1917.)

That chapter 26 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by repealing 828. section 4, 830. section 6, 831. section 7 and 833. section 9 and inserting in lieu thereof the following, to be styled 828. section 4, 830, section 6, 831. section 7 and 833. section 9:

828. SEC. 4. Indigent patients; treatment of; cost of; how paid.-The commission shall have power and is authorized to promote a careful study of conditions regarding tuberculosis throughout the State; to educate public opinion as to the causes and prevention of tuberculosis; to arouse general interest in securing adequate provision for the proper care of tuberculosis patients in their homes and by means of sanatoria; and to send such indigent consumptive patients as require treatment to sanatoriums for such treatment. Said commission shall pay for the care, treatment and support of such patients only the actual costs of their maintenance in said sanatoriums. Persons in indigent circumstances who, in the judgment of the commission, are able themselves or by their relatives to pay any part of said cost of maintenance, may be admitted to said sanatoriums and maintained and treated therein at the expense of the State to the extent that they cannot by themselves or relatives chargeable therefor pay such cost of maintenance.

830. SEC. 6. Annual report to governor.-The commission shall furnish annually to the governor a full account of its expenditures and disbursements. It shall also at the same time report to the governor the work of the commission for the year, including the number of persons treated, the results of treatment as nearly as can be ascertained,