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quire such witnesses to testify, and it shall give a full hearing on the compensation to be awarded, and give notice of the filing of such award to the Com missioners of the District of Columbia and the owners of said property, and any party in interest dissatisfied with the amount of such award may appeal from the same, which appeal shall be reviewed by the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, which court is hereby vested with jurisdiction for such purpose; and an appeal may similarly be taken from the decision of such Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States for a final review of the amount of the award. Such final award shall bear interest at the rate of 4 per centum per annum from the date the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall have taken possession of the property until the date of its final payment.

SEC. 4. That the expenses of procuring evidence of title, or expenses of appraisal and award, or both, shall be paid out of such appropriations as are or may be provided for the collection and disposal of garbage and miscel laneous refuse.

SEC. 5. That not exceeding $85,000 of the appropriation authorized herein may be expended for the purchase of the property of the garbage contractor; and not exceeding $50,000 may be expended for the purchase of the property of the miscellaneous refuse contractor: Provided, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to acquire by lease all or any part of the plant, equipment, buildings, and grounds of either of the present con tractors engaged in the collection and removal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse, or property used by them, or such other equipment, buildings and grounds as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

SEC. 6. That should the Commissioners of the District of Columbia find that the garbage in the District can be disposed of in a sanitary manner and as economically by feeding it to pigs, live stock, and poultry on the land of the Home for the Aged and Infirm, located at Blue Plains, District of Columbia, or on the land of the workhouse and reformatory of the District of Columbia, located at Occoquan and Lorton, Va., or both, or on such other land as the said commissioners may be able to acquire by purchase or lease in the States of Virginia or Maryland, the said commissioners are authorized to use either or all of said designated lands, or to purchase or lease land in the States of Virginia or Maryland for the purpose, and to adopt the pig, live stock, or poultry feeding method of disposal.

SEC. 7. That not exceeding $200,000 of the appropriation authorized herein may be expended for the purchase of pigs, live stock, and poultry.

SEC. 8. That should the Commissioners of the District of Columbia find that under existing circumstances the methods of disposal of garbage hereinbefore authorized are inadvisable, they are authorized to secure for tem porary use sufficient land, and to acquire the necessary equipment to bury the garbage collected in the District of Columbia.

SEC. 9. That every person, corporation, association, or institution in the District of Columbia, under such rules and regulations as the commissioners may prescribe, may transport in closed metal containers from the place of origin to places outside of the District of Columbia any refuse, including meat, bread, and vegetables, not in a decayed or decomposed condition, to be fed to poultry, pigs, or other live stock at any place where such feeding is not prohibited by law.

SEC. 10. That products arising from any method of disposal adopted by the commissioners under the authority of this act, may be sold, and the proceeds

therefrom shall be repaid to the then current appropriation for the collection and disposal of garbage and miscellaneous refuse.

SEC. 11. That in order to put into effect and operate such method of disposal as may be adopted by the commissioners under the provisions of this act, the said commissioners are authorized to secure the necessary means of transportation, including the hire or purchase of horses and horse-drawn vehicles and passenger-carrying and other motor-propelled vehicles; additional equipment, buildings, and machinery; and to employ expert and other personal services and labor; and to pay traveling, maintenance, incidental, and contingent expenses.

SEC. 12. That for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act an appropriation in the sum of $620,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized, one-half to be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Alley Dwellings-Time for Discontinuance of Use or Occupation Postponed. (Act of Congress, May 23, 1918.)

That the operation of the second paragraph of section 1 (relating to the use or occupation of alley buildings as dwellings), of the act of Congress approved September 25, 1914, entitled “An act to provide, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, and safety, for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in the alleys in the District of Columbia," be, and the same hereby is, postponed until the expiration of one year following the date of the proclamation by the President of the exchange of ratifications of the treaty of peace between the United States and the Imperial German Government.

Pub. Health Repts. Reprint 279, p. 9.

GEORGIA.

Ophthalmia Neonatorum-Notification of Cases-Prevention. (Act 354, Aug. 17, 1918.)

SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of any person who shall be in attendance on any childbirth to apply to the child such prophylactic treatment as may be prescribed by the State board of health to prevent blindness from gonococcus infection.

SEC. 2. That any person who shall nurse or attend any infant shall report any inflammation of the eyes of said child that shall develop within two weeks after birth to the local health officer or to a licensed physician.

SEC. 3. That any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act or any rule by the State board of health hereunder shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in section 1065 of the Code of Georgia of 1910.

Venereal Diseases-Notification of Cases-Unlawful for Infected Persons to Expose Others to Infection-Examination of Persons Suspected of Being Infected-Treatment-Quarantine-Regulations by State Board of Health Authorized. (Act 393, Aug. 17, 1918.)

SECTION 1. That syphilis, gonorrhea and chancroid hereinafter designated as venereal diseases, are hereby declared to be contagious, infectious, communicable and dangerous to the public health. It shall be unlawful for any one infected with these diseases or any of them, to expose another to infection.

SEC. 2. Any physician or other person who makes a diagnosis in or treats a case of venereal disease, and any superintendent or manager of a hospital, dispensary, or charitable or penal institution in which there is a case of venereal disease, shall make a report of such case to the health authorities according to such form and manner as the State board of health shall direct.

SEC. 3. State, county, and municipal health officers, or their authorized deputies, within their respective jurisdiction are hereby directed and empowered, when in their judgment it is necessary to protect the public health to make examination of persons being [sic] or suspected of being infected with venereal diseases; to require persons infected with venereal disease to report for treatment to a reputable physician and continue treatment until cured, or to submit to treatment provided at public expense, and to isolate persons infected or reasonably suspected of being infected with venereal disease.

SEC. 4. All persons who shall be confined or imprisoned in any State, county, or city prison of this State may be examined and treated for venereal disease by the health authorities or their deputies. The State, county, and municipal boards of health shall have authority to take over such portion of any State, county, or city prison as may be necessary for a board of health hospital, wherein all persons who shall have been confined or Imprisoned and who are suffering with venereal disease at the time of the expiration of their terms of imprisonment shall be isolated and treated at public expense until cured, or in lieu of such isolation such person may, in the discretion of the board of health, be required to report for treatment to a licensed physician or submit to treatment provided at public expense as provided in section 3 of this act.

SEC. 3. The State board of health is hereby empowered and directed to make such rules and regulations as shall, in its judgment, be necessary for the carrying out of the purposes of this act, including rules and regulations providing for such labor on the part of isolated persons as may be necessary to provide in whole or in part for their subsistence and to safeguard their general health, and such other rules and regulations concerning venereal diseases as it may from time to time deem advisable. All such rules and regulations so made shall be of force and binding upon all county and municipal health officers and other persons affected by this act.

SEC. 6. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act or any lawful rule or regulation made by the State board of health pursuant to the authority herein granted by any other statute law [sic], or who shall fail or refuse to obey any lawful order issued by any State, county, or municipal health officer pursuant to the authority granted in this act or any other act or the regulations prescribed thereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as provided in section 1065 of the Code of Georgia of 1910.

Venereal Diseases-Notification of Cases-Circular of Information to Be Furnished Patient-Examination of Persons Suspected of Being Infected— Quarantine-Sale of Medicine-Unlawful for Infected Persons to Expose Others to Infection-Repression of Prostitution-Certificates of Freedom from Venereal Disease Not to Be Issued. (Reg. Bd. of H., 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 public health.

RULE 1. Venereal diseases 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, or charitable or penal institution, in which there is a case 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 physician 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 information obtainable for this purpose from the State board of health.

RULE 3. Investigation of cases.—All city, county, and other local health officers shall use every available means to ascertain the existence of and to investigate all cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and chaneroid within their several territorial jurisdictions, and to ascertain the sources of such infections. Local health officers 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 physicians 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 shall inform all persons who are about to be released from quarantine for venereal disease, 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 the following statement after the blank spaces have been filled to the satisfaction of the health officer:

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fact that I am at this time infected with myself under the medical care of

-----, hereby acknowled the and agree to place (Address.)

(Name of physician or clinic.) within hours, and that I will remain under treatment of said physician or clinic until released by the health officer of --until my case is transferred with the approval of said health officer to another regularly licensed physician or an approved clinic.

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or

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 to other persons, and that I will not perform any act which would expose other persons to 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.

(Signature.)

(Date.)

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 of 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.

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