8. Street cars, etc.-The traction company has arranged to provide such service at all times as will render crowding unnecessary; the use of street cars will be limited to one-half of their regular seating capacity, plus one passenger in the front vestibule and three passengers in the rear vestibule; no passenger will be permitted to stand, except in vestibules as above provided; passengers seated will keep a clear space of 2 feet between them; cars filled to capacity, as herein limited, will display signs indicating that fact, and waiting passengers will cooperate with the traction employees by cheerfully waiting for the next

car.

Taxicabs and other public vehicles will not carry passnegers in excess of one-half of their regular seating capacity.

9. Children.-Crowding, loitering, or lounging upon or about the streets or any public places of the city is forbidden; children must not gather in groups and must remain within their own homes or upon their own premises, except when sent upon necessary errands by their parents or guardians; no child under 12 years of age will be permitted on the streets or public places of the city after 7 o'clock in the evening unless actually accompanied by an adult person. 10. Placarding.-The city will cause all houses and buildings containing a case of influenza to be placarded; the patient shall be segregated from other members of the household and no person attending such patient shall leave the premises until the case shall be discharged by the attending physician; and no person except the wage earner in a home afflicted with influenza, or one engaged upon a strictly necessary business mission, shall leave the household during the continuance of such case therein and until the same shall be discharged by the attending physician, and in no case before the expiration of four days after the fever shall have subsided. Persons convalescing from influenza or its complications will not return to their work or business for 10 days after the fever shall have subsided, unless sooner discharged by written certificate of the attending physician.

Violation of any of these regulations will subject the offender and the house hold concerned to the stringent quarantine measures provided by the State laws.

11. General.—Every one will keep regular hours, stay away from crowds, get plenty of sleep, breathe fresh air day and night, stay home if he has any indi cation of a cold, allow no one to cough or sneeze in hs face, oibserve these rules faithfully, and cooperate with the authorities in insisting that all others do likewise.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

Pellagra-Notification of Cases and Deaths-Embraced Under Term “Contagious Disease "-Preventive Measures Same as for Typhoid Fever. (Ord. Apr. 10, 1917.)

SECTION 1. That hereafter the phrase "contagious disease" as used in the ordinances and regulations of the city governing the board of health, its officers, practicing physicians, and other persons shall be held to include the disease known as pellagra.

SEC. 2. That every physician shall immediately report to the board of health, in person or in writing, any person he may attend or be called to see (within the city limits or 1 mile outside thereof) sick with, or who he has reason to suspect has, pellagra, giving his or her name, color, age, and place of residence. In the absence of a physician, the parent, guardian, employer, or head of the houses where such patient is sick shall make such report. It shall also be the duty of each and every practicing physician in the city to report, In writing, to

the board of health the death of any of his patients who shall have died in said city of pellagra within 24 hours thereafter.

SEC. 3. That the board of health, physicians, and other persons shall take the same precautionary measures to prevent the spread of pellagra that are now required by law with reference to cases of typhoid fever.

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

Children Having Parasitic Troubles-Restriction. (Reg. Bd. of Public Welfare, Oct. 14, 1919.)

When children are excluded from employment or from school by reason of parasitic troubles, their parents shall be notified, and such children shall be prohibited from engaging in any work outside of the home, playing with children other than the members of their own family, attending any theater, moving-picture performance or any other assembly of people, riding on a street car, train, or motor bus, or any other association with the general public for such period as they continue to be a menace to their associates.

NEW CASTLE, PA.

Influenza-Notification of Cases-Quarantine-Placarding-Attendance at Schools and Public Gatherings-Wearing of Masks. (Ord. Nov. 26, 1918.) SECTION 1. That the disease known as Spanish influenza is hereby declared to be an infectious disease, dangerous to health; and it shall be the duty of every physician practicing in said city who shall treat or examine any person suffering from, or infected with, the said disease of Spanish influenza, to forthwith make a report in writing or by telephone to the health officer of the said city, stating the name, age, sex, and color of the person suffering therefrom, together with the street and house number of the premises in which the said person may be located, or otherwise sufficiently designate the same, together with such other information relating to the case as may be required by the health officer of said city.

SEC. 2. When the person affected shall not employ a physician, he, himself, shall make the report to the health officer in the same manner as is required In the preceding section, to be made by an attending physician; if he or she be not able to make the report, then the person or persons with whom he or she lives or resides, or under whose control he or she shall be, shall make the sald report to the health officer as required in the preceding section.

SEC. 3. Upon receipt of the notice required by the preceding section, it shall be the duty of the health officer, to post or cause to be posted in a conspicuous place or places upon the premises in, or on which the said disease may be located a placard, upon which shall be printed in conspicuous letters the words: "Spanish Influenza, Stay Out." If there are more than one person suffering with the said disease in the same house or premises, the health officer has the option to quarantine the said premises, in which case he shall also put up a placard having threon the word: "Quarantined," and when said place is quarantined no person or persons shall enter the said place except the attending physician or nurse except by permission of the health officer; and any person or persons who shall remove, deface, take down, or in any manner interfere with said placard without permission of the health officer, shall be subject to the provisions of this ordinance.

SEC. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person affected with said disease of Spanish influenza to attend any place of amusement, church, school, public

gathering, street car, or any place whatsoever in which persons are congregated or assembled, or in any store or place of business.

SEC. 5. If the person affected is a child, or other person not capable of taking care of himself or herself, it shall be the duty of the parent or parents, guardian, or other person having charge of the said child or other persons not capable of taking care of themselves, to see that the person affected shall not be permitted to go to or attend any place of amusement, church, school, public gathering, street car, or any place whatsoever in which persons are congregated or assembled, or in any store or place of business.

SEC. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person not affected with said disease to enter any room or place where any person is residing, or room [sic], who is affected with the said infectious disease except the physician and nurse unless they wear suitable masks to prevent the incurring of the said disease.

SEC. 7. Any order or direction with reference to any case of Spanish influenza made and directed to be done by the council shall be enforced by the health officer, and the disobedience of the said order shall subject the person offending to the penalties of this ordinance.

SEC. 8. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction, be subject to pay a fine or penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $100 and costs of suit, and in default of payment of said fine and costs may be committed to the city or county prison not exceeding 30 days.

NEW HAVEN, CONN.

Communicable Diseases-Notification of Cases-Quarantine-Isolation-Placarding-Hospitalization-Disinfection-Screening. (Ord. Jan. 29, 1917.)

SEC. 869. It shall be and is hereby, made the duty of the board of health to keep currently informed of the communicable diseases throughout the city and to prevent the spread of these diseases.

SEC. 870. The following-named diseases are hereby declared to be dangerous to the public health and made notifiable, and the occurrence of cases shall be reported as herein provided:

And venereal diseases as now or may hereafter be provided by the general statutes of the State of Connecticut.

Provided, That the board of health may from time to time, or for any period of time, in its discretion declare additional or unusual diseases notifiable and subject to the provisions of this act.

SEC. 871. Every person who treats or examines, for the purpose of diagnosis or treatment, any person suffering or afflicted with any one of the diseases made notifiable by the preceding section shall report such case to the department of health within 12 hours after making a diagnosis that the disease is one that is required to be reported. Said report shall be transmitted either by telephone or in writing and shall give the following information:

1. The date when the report is made.

2. The name of the disease.

3. The time of onset or the duration of the disease.

4. The name and address of the patient.

5. Age, occupation, school attended, or place of employment of the patient. 6. Number of adults and of children in the household.

7. Name and address of the person making the report.

SEC. 872. Every teacher and every person in charge of any public or private school, including Sunday schools, shall report immediately to the department of health each and every case which he or she knows or suspects to be a case of a notifiable disease in persons attending or employed in his or her school.

SEC. 873. Every hospital, asylum, or other public or private institution for the treatment of the sick shall be provided, for display in its office, with a card upon which sections 2, 3, and 4 of this act shall have been printed in type not smaller than 10-point. These cards shall not be less than 12 by 14 inches.

SEC. 874. It shall be the duty of said department of health, through its accredited agents, to maintain such adequate quarantine or isolation of those sick of and those proven carriers of notifiable diseases as shall be sufficient for the protection of public health. Provided, That in suspected cases of communicable disease or in suspected carriers of such diseases reasonable quarantine or isolation may be required of any individual or individuals or their premises.

SEC. 875. Said quarantine or isolation shall be officially made by such reasonable rules and notices posted on, or in the premises, or otherwise published, as may be deemed necessary by the department of health to control danger to the public health from each notifiable disease.

Until said quarantine or isolation shall be officially made, no individual other than a wage earner shall be removed from the premises until permission shall be given by the department of health, through its proper agents.

The termination, by recovery or otherwise, of all cases of notifiable diseases shall be reported by the physician, nurse, or other person in charge of the case to said department of health. No case of, or carrier of, such diseases shall be officially released from quarantine or isolation save under the direction of the agents of said department: Provided, That in any quarantine or isolation hospital the physician in charge may so release those sick, under the rules and regulations of the department of health, upon notification of the termination of the case to said department.

The requirements of the preceding section shall be applicable to physicians attending patients ill with any of the notifiable diseases in hospitals, asylums, or institutions, public or private; or when no physician is in attendance, by the nurse, midwife, father, mother, or other person in charge of the patient, each in the order named.

Sec. 876. Restrictions made on individual in their relations to the public health shall be officially made and recorded by said department of health; likewise the termination of such restrictions: Provided, That during quarantine or isolation of any case, or of any carrier of a notifiable disease, either

diagnosis may be reversed or said quarantine or isolation may be changed from that of the premises of the one sick to that of any proper quarantine or isolation institution, when conditions under the former state become such as to be a danger to public health. .

SEC. 877. It shall be the duty of said department of health, through its ac credited agents, to demand at all times proper disinfection or destruction of all infectious material during the course of and at the termination of any notifiable disease. The relation of such infectious material, and the paths by which it may be transmitted, directly or indirectly, to other individuals through the medium of domestic animals, insects, and through raw or prepared foods, shall be subject to such necessary supervision and control as shall be reasonable for the protection of the public health. The department of health, through its accredited agents, may compel screening of the premises or of patients sick with any of the diseases mentioned in section 2, and may compel adequate sanitation of privy vaults and cesspools and the protection of their contents by proper construction, by screening against insects, and by the disinfection of all parts of such vaults and their contents, at such periods of time or at such intervals of time, as shall be deemed necessary for the protection of the public health: Provided, That failure to comply with any provisions of the preceding section on the part of the tenant, lessee, or owner of said property or properties, said department of health, through its proper agents, may take such immediate action as shall be reasonable and adequate to protect the public health.

SEC. 878. It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to destroy, deface, remove, or obstruct any placard or other notice that has been posted as a warning to the public.

SEC. 879. Any violation of these regulations shall be subject to a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $100 for each and every offense.

NEW YORK, N. Y.

Communicable Diseases-Notification of Cases. (Reg. Bd. of H., Sept. 17,

1918.)

SEC. 86. Duty of persons in charge of hospitals and of physicians to report infectious diseases.-It shall be the duty of the manager or managers, superintendent, or person in charge of every hospital, institution, or dispensary in the city of New York, to report to the department of health, in writing, the full name, age, and address of every occupant or inmate thereof or person treated therein, affected with any one of the infectious diseases included in the following list, with the name of the disease, within 24 hours after the time when the case is diagnosed, and it shall be the duty of every physician in the said city to make a similar report to the said department within the same period relative to any person found by such physician to be affected with any one of the said infeetious diseases, stating, in each instance, the name of the disease: Acute an terior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), anthrax. Asiatic cholera, diphtheria (croup), dysentery (epidemic), epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, glanders, sup purative conjunctivitis, hookworm disease, leprosy, malarial fever, measles. mumps, paratyphoid fever, plague, pulmonary tuberculosis, acute lobar pneumonia, bronchial or lobular pneumonia, influenza, rabies, rubella (German measles, rotheln), scarlet fever, epidemic septic sore throat, smallpox, tetanus trachoma, trichinosis, tuberculous meningitis, typhoid fever, typhus fever, varicella (chicken pox), whooping cough, and yellow fever,