NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Venereal Diseases-Notification of Cases-Circular of Information to Be Furnished Patient-Examination of Persons Suspected of Being Infected-Quarantine-Remedies to Be Sold Only on Physician's Prescription-Unlaw. ful for Infected Persons to Expose Others to Infection-Suppression of Prostitution-Certificates of Freedom from Venereal Disease Not to Be Issued. (Reg. Bd. of H., Aug. 14, 1918.)

Venereal diseases declared dangerous to the public health.-Syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid, hereinafter designated venereal diseases, are hereby declared to be contagious, infectious, communicable, and dangerous to the public health.

RULE 1. Venereal disease to be reported.-Any physician or other person who makes a diagnosis in, or treats, a case of syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid, and every superintendent or manager of a hospital, dispensary, charitable, penal, or other institution or place of detention, in which there is a case of of venereal disease, shall report such case immediately in writing to the local health officer, stating the name and address, or the office number, age, sex, color, and occupation, of the diseased person, and the date of onset of the disease, and the probable source of the infection: Provided, That the name and address of the diseased person need not be stated except as hereinafter specifically required. The report shall be inclosed in a sealed envelope and sent to the local health officer, who shall report weekly on the prescribed form to the State board of health all cases reported to him.

RULE 2. Patients to be given information.-It shall be the duty of every phy sician and of every other person who examines or treats a person having syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid, to instruct him in measures for preventing the spread of such disease, and inform him of the necessity for treatment until cured and to hand him a copy of the circular of the information obtainable for this purpose from the State board of health.

RULE 3. Investigation of cases.-Health officers shall use every available means to ascertain the existence of, and to investigate, all cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid within their several territorial jurisdictions and to ascertain the source of such infection. Local health officers, or their authorized deputy, are hereby empowered and directed to make such examinations of persons reasonably suspected of having syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid, as may be necessary for carrying out these regulations. Owing to the prevalence of such diseases among prostitutes and persons associated with them, all such persons are to be considered within the above class.

RULE 4. Protection of others from infection by venereally diseased persons.— Upon receipt of a report of a case of venereal disease it shall be the duty of the local health officer to institute measures for the protection of other persons from infection by such venereally diseased person.

(a) Local health officers are authorized and directed to quarantine persons who have or are reasonably suspected of having syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid whenever, in the opinion of said local health officer, or the State board of health, or its secretary, quarantine is necessary for the protection of the

public health. In establishing quarantine the health officer shall designate and define the limits of the area in which the person known to have, or reasonably suspected of having, syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid and his immediate attendant are to be quarantined, and no persons other than the attending physi cians shall enter or leave the area of quarantine without the permission of the local health officer.

No one but the local health officer shall terminate said quarantine, and this shall not be done until the diseased person has become noninfectious, as determined by the local health officer (or his authorized deputy) through the clinical examination and all necessary laboratory tests, or until permission has been given him so to do by the State board of health or its secretary.

(b) The local health officer, or his authorized deputy, shall inform all persons who are about to be released from quarantine for venereal diseases, in case they are not cured what further treatment should be taken to complete their cure. Any person not cured before release from quarantine shall be required to sign in duplicate the following statement after the blank spaces have been filled to the satisfaction of the health officer:

One copy must be sent to the State board of health.

of said physician or clinic until released by the health officer of. or until my case is transferred with the approval of said health officer to another regularly licensed physician or an approved clinic.

I hereby agree to report to the health officer within four days after beginning treatment as above agreed, and will bring with me a statement from the above physician or clinic of the medical treatment applied in my case, and thereafter will report as often as may be demanded of me by the health officer. I agree, further, that I will take all precautions recommended by the health officer to prevent the spread of the above disease, I agree, until finally released by the health officer, to notify him of any change of address and to obtain his consent before moving my abode outside his jurisdiction.

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All persons signing the above agreement shall observe its provisions, and any failure so to do shall be a violation of these regulations. All such agreements shall be filed with the health officer and kept inaccessible to the public as provided in rule 10.

RULE 5. Conditions under which the name of a patient is required to be reported.—(a) When a person applies to a physician or other person for the diagnosis or treatment of syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid, it shall be the duty of the physician or person so consulted to inquire and ascertain from the person seeking such diagnosis or treatment whether such person has theretofore consulted with or has been treated by any other physician or person and, if so, to ascertain the name and address of the physician or person last consulted. It shall be the duty of the applicant for diagnosis or treatment to furnish this information, and a refusal so to do or a falsification of the name and addresse of such physician or person consulted by such applicant shall be deemed a violation of these regulations. It shall be the duty of the physician or other person whom the applicant consults to notify the physician or other person inst consulted of the change of advisers. Should the physician or person previously consulted fail to receive such notice within five days after the last date upon

which the patient was instructed by him to appear, it shall be the duty of such physician or person to report to the local health officer the name and address of such venereally diseased person.

(b) If an attending physician or other person knows or has good reason to suspect that a person having syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid is so conducting himself or herself as to expose other persons to infection, or is about so to conduct hmself or herself, he shall notify the local health officer of the name and address of the diseased person and the essential facts in the case.

RULE 6. Druggists forbidden to prescribe for venereal diseases.—No druggist or other person not a physician licensed under the laws of the State shall prescribe, dispense, give, or sell to any person any drugs, medicines, or other substances to be used for the cure or alleviation of gonorrhea, syphilis, or chancroid, or shall compound any drugs or medicines for said purpose from any written formula or order not written for the person for whom the drugs or medicines are compounded and not signed by a physician licensed under the laws of the State.

RULE 7. Spread of venereal discase unlawful.-It shall be a violation of these regulations for any infected person knowingly to expose another person to infection with any of the said venereal diseases or for any person to perform an act which exposes another person to infection with venereal disease.

RULE 8. Prostitution to be repressed.-Prostitution is hereby declared to be a prolific source of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid, and the repression of prostitution is declared to be a public health measure. All local and State health officers are therefore directed to cooperate with the proper officials whose duty it is to enforce laws directed against prostitution and otherwise to use every proper means for the repression of prostitution.

RULE 9. Giving certificates of freedom from venereal diseases prohibited.― Physicians, health officers, and all other persons are prohibited from issuing certificates of freedom from venereal diseases: Provided, This rule shall not prevent the issuance of necessary statements of freedom from infectious diseases written in such form or given under such safeguards that their use in solicitation for sexual intercourse would be impossible.

RULE 10. Records to be secret.-All information and reports concerning persons infected with venereal diseases shall be inaccessible to the public except in so far as publicity may attend the performance of the duties imposed by these regulations and by the laws of the State.

RULE 11. All persons arrested for vagrancy, prostitution, or adultery may Le required to submit to and be given an examination for venereal disease by the local health officer, or his authorized deputy. Such examination shall be complete and shall include a Wassermann test by the State laboratory. If the person arrested be found infected he (or she) shall at once be put in quarantine as hereinbefore provided.

RULE 12. Any person violating any of the provisions of these regulations shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $10 for each offense.

NEW JERSEY.

List of Notifiable Diseases-Influenza and Pneumonia Added. (Reg. Dept. of H., Oct. 1, 1918.)

REGULATION 1. The following diseases are hereby declared to be commun

Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever-Examination of Suspected Carriers-Commitment to Hospital. (Ch. 209, Act Mar. 4, 1918.)

1. Whenever the director of health of this State, or any local board of health, or the health officer of any such board shall have reason to believe that any person is the carrier of the infective agent of typhoid fever or paratyphoid fever, and is unable or unwilling to conduct himself in such a manner as not to expose the public to danger of infection, the said director of health, local board of health, or health officer, as the case may be, may request such person to submit to a medical examination, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not such person is, in fact, the carrier of such infective agent, and it shall be the duty of every such person to submit to such examination as aforesai and to permit such specimens of blood or bodily discharges to be taken for laboratory examination as may be necessary to establish the presence or absence of such infective agent: Provided, however, That whenever any such person shall refuse to submit to such examination, or to furnish such speci mens as aforesaid, the said director of health, local board of health, or health officer may apply to a judge of the court of common pleas for an order requiring that such person shall submit to such examination and furnish such specimens as aforesaid. Such application shall be by affidavit setting forth the particular infective agent with which the person is suspected to be infected, and the reasons why such examination is desired.

2. If said director of health, local board of health, or health officer shall find as a result of such examination as aforesaid, or in any other manner, that any person is the carrier of the infective agent of any such disease, and

is unable or unwilling to conduct himself in such a manner as not to expose the public to danger of infection, the said director of health, local board of health, or health officer, as the case may be, shall lodge a complaint against such person with any judge of the court of common pleas. Upon presentation of such complaint to such judge he may in his discretion sign and the clerk of the court of common pleas shall seal a warrant directed to the sheriff or any constable of the county, commanding him to forthwith bring the person Lamed in said complaint before such judge. Upon the return of the warrant or at any time to which the matter shall be adjourned, the said judge shall proceed to hear testimony and to determine and give judgment in the matter, and said judge, if he finds that said person is the carrier of the infective agent of any such disease, and neglects or is unable to so conduct himself as not to expose the public to infection, may commit said person to a county or munici pal hospital or to any other suitable place or institution for the care of persons suffering from such disease. Such judge may also make such order for the care or treatment of such person as may be proper. Said person shall be held in said hospital, place, or institution until discharged by a judge of the court of common pleas or by a justice of the supreme court. Said judge or justice shall have the power to adjourn the hearing in any case from time to time not exceeding 30 days from the return of the warrant, and to bail the person so charged in such sum as he shall deem proper for his presence at such time and place as said hearing shall be adjourned to, and, in default of bail, to commit the person so charged to the common jail of said county, to be there detained subject to hearing of said complaint. The complaint, commitment, and any and all other papers relating to the said matter shall be filed in the office of the county clerk.

3. Any person who shall disobey any order made by a judge of the court of common pleas, pursuant to the provisions of this supplement, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than $100, to be recovered in the manner provided for the recovery of penalties by the act [an act for the protection of the public health, approved March 22, 1895] to which this act is a supplement.

Venereal Diseases-Examination of Persons Suspected of Being InfectedIssuance of Certificates of Freedom from Venereal Disease to Prostitutes Prohibited-Quarantine—Prohibited Occupations-Duties of Local Health Authorities-Instructions and Circular of Information to Be Given Patient-Removal to Other Jurisdiction-Free Treatment to Indigent Persons-Procedure in Enforcement of Act. (Ch. 253, Act Mar. 4, 1918.)

1. Syphilis, gonorrhea and chancroid are hereby declared to be infectious and communicable diseases, dangerous to the public health.

Whenever any local board of health or health officer shall receive a report from the Surgeon General of the United States Army or Navy, or from the commanding officer of any camp, cantonment or other military or naval organization situated in this State, or from any person authorized by the surgeon general or said commanding officer to make such report, that any person within the jurisdiction of said board or health officer is, or is suspected to be suffering from or infected with any infectious venereal disease, said board or health officer may cause a medical examination to be made of said person for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not such person is in fact suffering from or infected with such disease, and it shall be the duty of every such person to submit to such examination as aforesaid and to permit such specimens of blood or bodily discharges to be taken for laboratory examination as may be necessary to establish the presence or absence of such disease or infection. If a request