labeled as a cure or treatment of a venereal disease, except on written prescrip tion of a licensed physician.

SEC. 7. Whenever a person applies to a physician for treatment for venereal disease, it shall be the duty of the physician to inquire of and ascertain from the person seeking treatment whether such person has heretofore consulted with or been treated by any other physician, and if so, to ascertain the name and address of the physician last theretofore consulted. It shall be the duty of the applicant for treatment to furnish this information, and refusal to do so or falsely stating the name and address of such physician consulted shall be deemed a violation of this ordinance. It shall be the duty of the physician, where the applicant has theretofore received treatment, to immediately notify by mail the physician theretofore treating such applicant of the change of physician; such notification to be made upon a form furnished for that purpose by the department of health. Should the physician previously consulted fall to receive such notice within five days after the last appearance or treatment administered by him to such venereally diseased person, it shall be the duty of such physician to report to the health department the name and address of such venereally diseased person.

SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the physician treating any person infected with a venereal disease to make and keep an accurate record of each and every time such person so diseased is visited or seen for the purpose of consultation or treatment, and each and every person so seen or visited shall be instructed by the physician or person responsible for the treatment as to the day or date on which said person so diseased shall be expected to be next visited or seen for the purpose of treatment or consultation, and if after five days from the day or date so specified the person so instructed has not returned to or been visited or seen by the physician responsible for the treatment, it shall be the duty of the said physician to immediately report to the health department the name and address of such venereally diseased person.

SEC. 9. Upon receipt of a report of a case of venereal disease, it shall be the duty of the health officer to institute such measures for the protection of other persons from infection by such venereally diseased person as said health officer is already empowered to use to prevent the spread of other contagious, Infeetious, or communicable diseases.

SEC. 10. All information and reports concerning persons infected with venereal diseases shall be confidential and shall not be accessible to the public, except in so far as publicity may attend the performance of the duty imposed upon the health officer in the preceding sections.

SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of either of the parents of minors who may contract a venereal disease, where such minor is living with the parents, upon being notified by the health officer or the attending physician, to compel such minor to comply with the requirements of this ordinance, and upon failure of such minor to comply, to report such matter or fact to the health officer.

SEC. 12. It shall be unlawful for any person to publish, deliver, distribute, or cause to be published, delivered, or distributed in any manner whatsoever in the city of Birmingham, an advertisement concerning a genito-urinary or vene real disease, lost manhood, lost vitality, impotency, sexual weakness, seminal emissions, varicocele, self-abuse, or excessive sexual indulgence and calling attention to a medicine, article, or preparation that may be used therefor, et to a person or persons from whom, or an office or place at which, information, treatment, or advice relating to such disease, infirmity, habit, or condition may be obtained: Provided, however, That this section shall not apply to didactic or scientific treatises which do not advertise or call attention to any person

or persons from whom, or any office or place at which, information, treatment, or advice may be obtained, nor shall it apply to advertisements or notices issued by the department of health of the city of Birmingham.

SEC. 13. No public dispensary where communicable diseases are treated or diagnosed shall be conducted or maintained in the city of Birmingham otherwise than in accordance with the regulations provided by the department of health.

SEC. 14. It shall be unlawful for any person afflicted with a venereal disease to knowingly transmit or assume the risk of transmitting, or to do any act likely to transmit such venereal disease to another person.

SEC. 15. It shall be unlawful for any druggist or clerk or employee of any druggist, or any person not a physician holding a certificate of a qualification from the State board of medical examiners of the State of Alabama, to prescribe or recommend to any person any drug, medicine, or other substance to be used for the cure, treatment, or alleviation of gonorrhea, syphilis, or chancroid, and it shall be unlawful for any such person to compound any drug or medicine for such 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 holding a certificate of qualification from the State board of medical examiners.

SEC. 16. 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. It shall be the duty of the health officer and all deputy health officers 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.

SEC. 17. It shall be unlawful for any physician, health officer, or other person to issue a certificate of freedom from venereal disease: Provided, That this section shall not prevent the issuance of necessary statements of freedom from infectious diseases written in such form or given under such safeguards as to make the use of such certificates for the solicitation of prostitution impossible. SEC. 18. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shail upon conviction, be punished within the limits and as provided for by section 1216 of the Code of Alabama of the year 1907.

SEC. 19. That should any section, phrase, sentence, paragraph, or other portion of this ordinance be declared invalid or unconstitutional, that shall not affect any other portion of the ordinance not so declared invalid or unconstitutional.

Venereal Diseases-Examination for, of Persons Arrested and Charged with Certain Offenses-Isolation and Treatment When Found Infected. (Ord. 593-C, Oct. 4, 1918.)

SECTION 1. The venereal diseases are hereby defined to be syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid, and are declared to be contagious, infectious, communicable, and dangerous to the public health.

SEC. 2. That whenever any person charged with the violation of any ordinance relating to prostitution, lewdness, the keeping or setting up of a house of ill fame, brothel, or bawdy house, street walking or soliciting for prostitution or for any immoral purpose, or vagrancy is arrested, it shall be the duty of the person making such arrest to immediately report, in writing, the name, address, and charge made against such person arrested to the health officer of the city of Birmingham

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SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the recorder before whom the case of the person arrested on such charge is pending to order an examination by sad health officer, or under his direction, for the purpose of determining whether or not such person arrested is infected with a venereal disease, and it shall be the duty of the city health officer, and he shall have full power and authority to subject such person so arrested and so charged to an examination for the purpose of determining whether or not such person is infected with a venereal disease. Should the examination of such person disclose the existence of = venereal disease such person shall be isolated and confined in an isolation hospital to be provided therefor by the city of Birmingham, under the direction of the city health officer, and such person shall be treated in such manner as may be required to cure such disease, and shall be held in confinement in such isolation hospital until the said city health officer shall deem it safe to the publ for such person to be discharged from such isolation hospital. Immediately upon such isolation and confinement of such person a written notice thereof, signed by the city health officer or by his duly authorized deputy or assistant, shall be given to the recorder before whom such charge was made, and there upon the trial of such charge (if said trial be not already concluded) shall be suspended or deferred until such person shall have been discharged by said et health officer from such isolation hospital, and upon such discharge of such person written notice thereof, signed by the said city health officer, his deputy or assistant, shall be given to said recorder and the trial of such charge shall be had and proceeded with according to law.

SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of every person arrested and charged with the violation of any ordinance or law relating to prostitution, lewdness, the keeping or setting up of a house of ill fame, brothel, or bawdy house, street walking or soliciting for prostitution or for any immoral purpose, or vagrancy, as set forth in section 2 of this ordinance, to agree to and subject himself or herself to the examination provided for in section 3 of this ordinance.

SEC. 5. That it shall be the duty of every person found, under the provisions of this ordinance, to be infected with a venereal disease, to comply with all the provisions of this ordinance relating to treatment, care, and isolation of persons infected with venereal diseases.

SEC. 6. That the city health officer, as well as the police authorities of the city, is hereby invested with the authority and charged with the duty to enforce the provisions of this ordinance and to prosecute all persons charged with violating the same, and to that end its officers, agents, employees, inspectors, and appointees shall have the right to enter any premises or place in the city of Birmingham for the purpose of inspection for violations thereof.

SEC. 7. That each day's violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

SEC. 8. That any person violating any provisions of this ordinance shall, on conviction, be punished as provided by and within the limits of section 1216 of the Code of Alabama of 1907.

SEC. 9. That any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this ordinance and sentenced to be punished by imprisonment, as provided in section 8 of this ordinance, shall, if such person is infected with a venereal disease, be confined during the term of said imprisonment.

SEC. 10. That should any section, portion, paragraph, sentence, or phrase of this ordinance be declared invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any other section or port.on of the ordinance not so declared invalid or unconstitutional.

DENVER (CITY AND COUNTY), COLO.

Venereal Diseases-Notification of Cases-Quarantine and Isolation-Sale of Medicine-Reports by Druggists. (Ords. Feb. 19, and Nov. 13, 1918.)

SECTION 1. That diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid are hereby designated as venereal diseases, and are hereby recognized and declared to be contagious, communicable, infectious, and dangerous to the public health.

SEC. 2. That the manager of health and charity is hereby given the power, for the purpose of protecting the public health, to quarantine and isolate all cases of venereal diseases described in section 1 hereof when, in his opinion, they are a menace to the public health and to the citizens of the city and county of Denver.

SEC. 3. That all physicians in attendance at any hospital or institution, or who are prescribing for or attending any private patient afflicted with any of said venereal diseases, or any physician having knowledge that any person is suffering from any of said diseases, shall, within 48 hours after obtaining such knowledge, report all such cases, giving name, address, and occupation of the person to the manager of health and charity. And all persons afflicted with any of such venereal diseases shall, within 48 hours after discovering such affliction, report such fact to said manager, giving name, address, and occupation.

SEC. 4. No medicine, remedy, or preparation of any kind for the relief or cure of any of said venereal diseases shall be sold by anyone within the city and county of Denver except upon the original written prescription of a licensed practicing physician, which prescription shall bear the name, address, and occupation of the person for whom such prescription is intended, and no such prescription shall again be refilled or a copy given of same, and which said prescription shall be kept on file by any druggist filling same, subject to inspection by any authorized representative of the manager of health and charity of the city and county of Denver, and shall in addition keep the record hereinafter provided for.

All druggists and other persons filling any prescription, or selling any medicine for the relief or cure of any of said venereal diseases, shall keep a record thereof, and shall, within 48 hours after filling such prescription or selling or dispensing said remedies for such purposes, report the name, address, and occupation of the person for whom such prescription is intended or remedy sold or dispensed to the manager of health and charity.

No prescription shall be made out or filled or remedy sold by any physician or other person unless the person applying therefor shall give the name, address, and occupation of the person for whom such remedy is to be used.

Any person applying to any druggist or other person to have any prescription filled or to purchase any remedy for said venereal diseases, or reporting any case of venereal disease to the manager of health and charity, who shall falsely report the name, address, or occupation of the person having such venereal disease, or the person for whom the prescription or remedy is intended, shall be deemed to have violated this ordinance.

SEC. 5. The superintendent, manager, or other person in charge of any hospital, sanitarium, or other institution in the city and county of Denver in which any patient is being treated for any of said venereal diseases, or is found to have the same, shall, within 48 hours after any such disease is discovered, report such fact, together with the name, address, and occupation of the person or persons so afflicted to the manager of health and charity.

SEC. 6. All reports made to the manager of health and charity under the provisions of this ordinance are for the purpose of enabling him to properly per

form his public duties under the provisions hereof, and the record of the same kept by him shall be his confidential record and shall not be open to public inspection.

SEC. 7. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction be fined in a sum not to exceed $300 or imprisoned not exceeding 90 days, or both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion of the court.

LOUISVILLE, KY.

Venereal Diseases-Notification of Cases-Instructions to Be Given PatientExamination of Persons Suspected of Being Infected-Quarantine-Prescribing, Recommending, and Compounding Medicine-Unlawful for Infected Person to Expose Others to Infection-Repression of ProstitutionIssuance of Certificates of Freedom from Venereal Disease-Reco. Is to be Confidential. (Ord. 81, July 3, 1918.)

Venereal discases 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.

SECTION 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 health officer of the city of Louisville, 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 health officer of the city of Louisville, who shall report at least once in every three months on the prescribed form to the State board of health all cases reported to him.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 3. Investigation of cases.-The city health officer shall use every available means to ascertain the existence of, and to investigate, all cases of syphilis. gonorrhea, and chancroid within the city of Louisville, and to ascertain the sources of such infections. The health officer is 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.

SEC. 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 health officer to institute measures for the protection of other persons from infection by such venereally diseased person.

(a) The health officer is authorized and directed to quarantine persons who have, or are reasonably suspected of having, syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid