It shall be the duty of the applicant for diagnosis or treatment to furnish this information, and a refusal to do so or a falsification of the name and address 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 last consulted of the change of advisers. Should the physician or person previously consulted fail to receive such notice within 10 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 himself 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 or recommend 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 disease 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 disease: 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.

State Tuberculosis Sanatorium-Management Transferred to State Board of Health. (Act 385, Aug. 17, 1918.)

SECTION 1. That the management of the sanitarium for the treatment of tuberculosis or consumptive patients created under the act of the General Assembly of Georgia approved August 17, 1908, establishing and organizing such sanitarium and providing for the management thereof, be, and the same is, vested in the State board of health instead of in the board of trustees or managers, created by the said last-mentioned act.

SEC. 2. That the board of trustees or managers created and provided for by said act shall be, and the same is hereby, abolished, and all of the powers conferred and created by this act be, and the same are hereby, vested in said State board of health, who are hereby constituted the board of trustees or managers of said sanitarium.

SEC. 3. That all provisions of said act of August 17, 1908, applicable to the board of trustees or managers therein created are hereby made applicable to the said State board of health appointed as the trustees or managers of said sanitarium.

SEC. 4. That the term sanatorium shall be applied to the institution hereafter instead of sanitarium as used in the aforesaid act authorizing the establishment of the institution, in order to conform to the general usage as to tuberculosis institutions and for the further purpose of distinguishing it from the institution for the treatment of insane at Milledgeville.

Municipal Tuberculosis Sanatoriums-Establishment and Maintenance. (Act 426, Aug. 19, 1918.)

SECTION 1. That section 1677 of volume 1, of the Code of Georgia of 1910 be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking all the following words, to wit: “54,000, nor more than 75,000 inhabitants," and substituting in lieu thereof the following: "15,000 inhabitants or any city of not less than 5,000 inhabitants located in a county which has a population of not less than 25,000.” so that said section 1677 of the Code of Georgia when amended shall read as follows:

SEC. 1677. Municipal authorities may establish a sanitarium.-Authority is hereby given to municipal authorities of any city in Georgia which has a popu lation of not less than 15,000 inhabitants, or any city of not less than 5,000 inhabitants located in a county which has a population of not less than 25,000 inhabitants, to establish and maintain, either alone or in connection with the county authorities of the county in which such city may be located, a sanitarium for the care, treatment, and maintenance of the inhabitants of such city or city and county affected with tuberculosis or consumption. Such sanitarium may be established and maintained anywhere within the limits of said county.

HAWAII.

Venereal Diseases-Notification of Cases-Circular of Information to Be Furnished Patient. (Reg. Bd. of H., Apr. 4, 1918.)

1. Gonorrhea and syphilis are hereby declared infectious and dangerous to the public health and on and after May 1, 1918, shall be reported in the manner provided by these regulations.

2. At the time of the first visit or consultation the physician shall furnish to each person examined or treated by him a numbered circular of information and advice concerning the disease in question, furnished by the Territorial board of health for that purpose.

3. The physician shall at the same time fill out the numbered report blank attached to the circular of advice, and forthwith mail the same to the Territorial board of health.

On this blank he shall report the following facts: Name of disease, age, sex, nationality, marital condition and occupation of the patient, previous duration of the disease and degree of infectiousness. The address of the patient shall be taken but not reported to the board of health unless the patient violates section 5.

4. Whenever a person suffering from gonorrhea or syphilis in an infectious stage applies to a physician for advice or treatment, the physician shall ascertain from the person in question whether or not such person has previously consulted with or been treated, by another physician within the Territory, and has received a marked circular of advice. If not, the physician shall give to the patient a marked circular of advice and explain the same and shall report the case to the Territorial board of health as provided for in section 3.

If the patient has consulted with or been treated by another physician and has received the inclosed circular of advice, the physician last consulted shall not report the case to the Territorial board of health but shall obtain from the patient the name and address of the physician last previously treating said patient and report immediately by mail to the physician that the patient has changed his medical adviser.

5. Whenever any person suffering from gonorrhea or syphilis in an infective stage shall fail to return to the physician treating such person for a period of six weeks later than the time last appointed by the physician for such consultation or treatment, and the physician also fails to receive a notification of change of medical advisers as provided in the previous section, the physician shall then notify the Territorial board of health, giving the name, address of patient, the name of the disease and serial number, date of report. 6. Upon the receipt of a report giving name and address of a person suffering from gonorrhea or syphilis in an infective stage, as provided in the previous section, the Territorial board of health will report name and address of the person as a person suffering from a disease dangerous to the public health and presumably not under proper medical advice and care sufficient to protect others from infection to its medical representative in the place where the patient resides or at the place of his last known address.

The Territorial board of health shall not divulge the name of the physician making said report. All reports shall be considered confidential and be placed on a secret file.

Influenza-Notification of Cases-Isolation-Placarding. (Reg. Bd. of H., Oct. 21, 1918.)

That the disease known as influenza or grippe be, and hereby is, declared to be a communicable and infectious disease within the meaning of section 940 revised laws 1915, and that physicians should report the same under the provisions of section 938 Revised Laws 1915.

That all buildings in which patients who have contracted the said disease are located shall be placarded and all of such patients isolated in so fa: as the same may be reasonably practicable.

ILLINOIS.

Venereal Diseases-Notification of Cases-Reports by Druggists-Copy of Rules and Circular of Information to Be Furnished Patients-Diagnosis--Unlawful to Expose Others to Infection-Isolation—Quarantine-Placarding-Prohibited Occupations-Control During Communicable Stage-Duties of Health Authorities-Certificates of Freedom from Venereal Diseases Not to Be Issued to Prostitutes-Removal of Infected Persons to Other Jurisdictions-Examination of Inmates of Jails, etc. (Reg. Dept. of Public Health, Aug. 1, 1918.)

RULE 1. Venereal diseases dangerous to public health.—The department of public health finds that the following venereal diseases, namely syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid, are contagious, infectious, communicable, and dangerous to the public health.

RULE 2. Prostitution a prolific source of venereal diseases.-Prostitution is hereby declared to be a prolific source of venereal diseases and the repression of prostitution is hereby declared to be a public health measure.

RULE 3. Venereal diseases to be reported; by and to whom.-Every physician, drugless healer, nurse, attendant, druggist or pharmacist, dentist, superintendent, or principal directing officer of a hospital, jail, house of correction, asylum, home or similar institution, or other person having knowledge of a known or suspected case of venereal disease, shall, within 24 hours of such knowledge of such known or suspected case coming to his notice, report the same to the local health authorities.

RULE 4. Contents of report.-Such report shall, except as otherwise hereinafter provided, state the name, address, age, sex, color, marital condition, occupation, name and address of the employer of such diseased person, and the nature and the previous duration of such disease and its probable origin, and such other information as may be deemed necessary by the department of health. RULE 5. When certain information may be omitted from report. The correct name, explicit address of the diseased person and the name and address of the employer of the diseased person may be omitted from the report under the following circumstances, and none others:

(1) If the diseased person

(a) Is not a prostitute or is not suspected of being a prostitute, or is not an habitual associate of prostitutes;

(b) Is not in active service in the Military or Naval Establishments of the United States, or of this State;

(c) Gives satisfactory assurance of the faithful observance of the rules for the control of venereal diseases, of the precautions which must be taken to prevent the spread of infection and of the instructions of the physician; and (d) Agrees to report regularly to a reputable practicing physician for advice and treatment; and

(2) If the physician to whom the diseased person applies for treatment— (a) Gives the diseased person full and proper instruction in the rules for the control of venereal diseases and in the precautions which must be taken to prevent the spread of the infection;

(b) Delivers to the diseased person a copy of these rules and regulations and booklet of advice and information on venereal diseases published or approved by the department of public health;