REG. 15. Whenever an emergency occurs such as will require the return of bakery products, the person desirous of returning said products shall apply to the board of health of the city or town where the bakery is situated for permission to return said products. The board of health granting the permit shall immediately notify the department of public health by mail of its action. The department of public health may, if so requested, grant such permission to return bakery products, and shall immediately notify the local board of health by mail of its action. This permission in either case may be arranged for by telephone subject to confirmation in writing within 24 hours.

REG. 16. The following form of notice shall be used under the provisions of section 18:

DEAR SIR: In accordance with the provisions of section 18 [of chapter 418] of the Acts of 1920, your attention is called to a violation of section ------ of said act (or of regulation made under the provisions of said act), as follows:

Section (or regulation)-is as follows:

[Copy section or regulation.]

Note. In accordance with regulation 3, a copy of this notice must be sent to the department of public health.

REG. 17. The form of notice sent under the provisions of section 19, ordering a bakery to be closed, shall be as follows:

DEAR SIR: Your bakery is hereby ordered closed in accordance with the provisions of section 19 of chapter 410 [418] of the Acts of 1920, as follows:

SECTION 19. In case a bakery is unfit for the production and handling of food or dangerous to the health of its employees, the department of public health or local board of health may order it closed: Provided, That any aggrieved person or corporation shall have the right to be heard before said department or board, as the case may be, and shall also have a right of appeal, before or after the execution of such order, but within 30 days of its issuance, to the superior court.

Note. In accordance with regulation 3, a copy of this notice must be sent to the department of public health.

REG. 18. Bakeries shall register in duplicate on or before October 3, 1920, with the board of health of the city or town where the bakery is located. Said registration shall be on forms furnished the local boards of health by the department of public health.

Local boards of health shall file with the department of public health once each week one copy of every such registration received during the seven days preceding.

REG. 19. If a bakery now existent shall change ownership, a new registration shall be made on a form as prescribed in regulation 18 before work begins under the new management.

REG. 20. No new bakery shall be established in a basement except with the consent of the local board of health. If the products of said bakery, however, are to be sold in other cities or towns than that where the bakery is located, said board of health shall obtain the consent of the department of public health before granting permission to open said bakery.

REG. 21. No new bakery shall be opened until it has been registered upon a form so provided under section 20 and the regulations made thereunder.

REG. 22. Boards of health of cities and towns shall notify the department of public health of each application received for the operation of a new bakery as soon as such application is received. Copies of applications and plans submitted to local boards of health shall be opened [sic] to the inspection of all officers or agents of the department of public health. They shall immediately notify the department of public health of their action upon each such application.

REG. 23. All inspectors shall carry proper credentials, which shall be presented upon request before beginning an inspection of a bakery. All inspectors,

meningitis, or smallpox, or any of the other diseases is required; nor shall the bodies of such persons chapel, or any other public place. The funerals o diseases shall be strictly private, and any persons w sary shall not be present, and no person shall invite un such funerals; and it shall be the duty of underta cases of death from an infectious disease against undertaker shall conduct a funeral in violation of th RULE 25. Action of State board in emergency.-In c or general epidemic or improperly controlled situa health, in which an appeal is made to or in which board of health is called to the necessity for some a may designate one or more members or representa mediately investigate the situation and to take su necessary and within the authority of the State boa sentative or representatives shall use his or their disc and may promulgate such regulations for that necessary and which shall immediately have the f regulation officially adopted by the board for the d When deemed advisable, the representatives may ca members of the board to assist in the investigation lations and procedures adopted.

In the event the local authorities have reason to the board's representatives, the board shall at the vene to pass upon the same.

[CH. 5.] RULE 3. School may be closed.-Wheneve State board of health, its executive officer or any health officer of a city, or any board of health of a

of the secretary of the Commonwealth; And provided further, That not more than $15,000 shall be expended by authority of this act in any one year. SEC. 2. The volumes purchased as aforesaid shall be distributed by the secretary as follows: One copy to the office of the secretary of, the Commonwealth; one copy to the supervisor of public records; one copy to the free public library of each city and town in the Commonwealth; one copy to each State and Territorial library in the United States; one copy to the Library of Congress; one copy to each incorporated historical society in the Commonwealth; one copy to the library of each college in the Cmmonwealth, one copy to each registry of deeds, and one copy to the land court. The remainder shall be placed in the State library for purposes of exchange. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on the 1st day of December, 1920. Burial, Removal, and Cremation Permits-Return of, to Issuing Office. (Ch. 321, Act Apr. 15, 1920.)

Section 40 of chapter 78 of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: Upon the burial of a body or of the ashes thereof in a cemetery, or upon the removal of a body or the ashes thereof from a cemetery, or upon the cremation of a body, the superintendent or other officer in charge of the cemetery or crematory shall indorse upon the permit or certificate the fact of such burial, removal, or cremation, with the date thereof, shall make and preserve a complete record of the permit or certificate with his indorsement, and shall forthwith return the permit or certificate to the office issuing the same.

Wood Alcohol and Preparations Containing Wood Alcohol-Labeling. (Ch. 185, Act Mar. 24, 1920.)

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Section 1 of chapter 541 of the acts of 1910, as affected by chapter 360 1o of the General Acts of 1919, is hereby amended by inserting after the word "alcohol" in the fifth line the words: "or any drug or medicine intended for external use which contains any methyl alcohol," so as to read as follows:

SECTION 1. Whoever, himself, or by his servant or agent, or as the servant or agent of any other person, sells, exchanges, or delivers any wood alcohol, otherwise known as methyl alcohol, either crude or refined, or denatured alcohol which contains any methyl alcohol, or any drug or medicine intended for external use which contains any methyl alcohol, under or by whatever name or trade-mark the same may be called or known shall affix to the bottle or vessel containing the same a label bearing the words, "Poison, Not for Internal Use," in red letters of uncondensed gothic type not less than one-fourth of an inch in height, and the same words, "Poison, Not for Internal Use," in stencilled letters or similar gothic type of a size not less than three-fourths nor more than 1 inches in height for use on barrels and kegs. Whoever violates any provision of this section shall pay a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $200 for each sale in respect to which the violation occurs.

Plumbing and Drainage-Investigation by State Department of Public Health as to Advisability of Standardizing Municipal Ordinances and Regulations Relating to. (Ch. 9, Resolve Apr. 14, 1920.)

Resolved, That the department of public health may investigate and report to the general court, not later than the 10th day of January, 1921, as to the advisability of revising and codifying the rules, regulations, and ordinances of

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the various cities and towns of the Commonwealth relative to plumbing, house drainage, and like subjects in order to promote uniform standard systems of plumbing and drainage. The report shall contain drafts of such legislation, if any, as the department may deem necessary to promote the public health and comfort and to provide for economy in plumbing and draining.

Charles River-State Department of Public Health Authorized to Make Orders Designed to Prevent the Pollution of. (Ch. 541, Act May 27, 1920.)

SECTION 1. The department of public health may make reasonable orders, having due regard to the particular circumstances of each case, prohibiting, limiting, or regulating the entrance or discharge into Charles River or its tributaries of such sewage, waste, refuse, or other substances as are injurious to the public health.

SEC. 2. Before making any such order the department shall, after due notice to the owner of the premises or the person, corporation, city, or town discharging or permitting the entrance of such sewage, waste, refuse, or other substance into said river, or any tributary thereof, hold a hearing, and thereafter shall make, in connection with any order issued by it, specific findings of fact and a recommendation as to the best practicable and reasonably available means of avoiding the pollution in respect to which the order is issued. The findings of fact shall be prima facie evidence in any proceedings to enforce such order.

SEC. 3. The supreme judicial court and the superior court shall have jurisdiction in equity, if they find that entrance or discharge of any such sewage, waste, refuse, or other substances into said river or any tributary thereof, is injurious to the public health, to enforce or modify any order made under the provisions of this act, and to enjoin such entrance or discharge. Proceedings to enforce any such order or to obtain such an injunction shall be instituted and prosecuted by the attorney general at the relation of the department of public health.

SEC. 4. Nothing in this act shall be held to prevent the flow into the said river or any tributary thereof of surface drainage from occupied lands or streets or the discharge from drains designed for the disposal of surface water and ground drainage, provided that no sewage or other waste is mingled therewith, nor shall it be held to interfere with the cultivation and use of the soil in the ordinary methods of agriculture.

SEC. 5. Chapter 158 of the acts of 1906 is hereby repealed, but this act shall not affect any powers exercisable by the metropolitan district commission under chapter 465 of the acts of 1903 and acts in amendment thereof.

Acushnet River-Investigation of Sanitary Condition of, by State Department of Public Health. (Ch. 32, Resolve Apr. 30, 1920.)

Resolved, That the department of public health is hereby directed to investigate and report upon the sanitary condition of the bed, banks, and water of Acushnet River and of the streams tributary or adjacent thereto in the towns of Acushnet and Fairhaven and in the city of New Bedford. The department shall ascertain whether the condition of said river or streams, or of the banks thereof, is injurious or dangerous to the public health by reason of deposits of sewage or of refuse from factories or from other cause, and if the department finds that any circumstances injurious or dangerous to the public health exist by reason of deposits of objectionable matter or otherwise, it shall recommend a plan or plans for the removal of the nuisance, and shall report the same to the next general court on or before the 10th day of January.

MINNESOTA.

Certified Milk-Standards for. (Reg. Bd. of H., July 2, 1920.)

42. All milk sold in Minnesota as certified milk must be free from pus and injurious bacteria and must not contain more than 10,000 bacteria of any kind to the cubic centimeter at the time of delivery to consumers. Such milk must have a specific gravity ranging from 1.029 to 1.034 and must be neutral or at most but faintly acid in reaction, must contain not less nor more than 3.5 to 4.5 per cent proteids, from 3.5 to 4.5 per cent butterfat, and from 4 to 5 per cent sugar. It must be free from all contaminating foreign matter or chemical substances added for preservative or coloring purposes. Immediately after milking, the milk must be cooled and thereafter kept at a temperature below 50° F. until delivered to consumers.

The word "certified" shall not appear in the name, title, or trade-mark of any firm, copartnership, association, or corporation selling milk, nor on the label of any bottle containing milk unless the firm, copartnership, association, or corporation producing and bottling such milk has complied in all respects with the regulations of the State board of health governing the production and sale of certified milk.

Dead Bodies-Disinterment and Reinterment. (Reg. Bd. of H., July 2, 1920.)

25a. No person, except a licensed embalmer, and then only after first having obtained a permit therefor from the local health officer and the local registrar of vital statistics, as hereinafter prescribed, shall disinter the body of a deceased person: Provided, The authorities in charge of a cemetery may transfer bodies buried therein from one part of such cemetery to another part thereof with the approval and under the supervision of the local health officer.

Any person desiring such a permit shall make application therefor to the proper local health officer, who shall question the applicant as to the cause of death and the manner in which it is proposed to disinter, handle, and dispose of the remains and shall give and enforce such directions for disinterment, removal, and reinterment as he deems necessary for the protection of the public health. Such local health officer shall thereafter notify the local registrar of vital statistics orally or in writing that the application is approved. The applicant shall thereupon apply to the registrar of vital statistics having jurisdiction over the district in which the body proposed to be disinterred is buried, who shall issue a written " disinterment-reinterment" permit using for such purpose the form now provided by the State board of health for original interments and noting thereon the words 'Disinterment-reinterment permit." Such permit shall not be issued by subregistrars.

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The sexton or person in charge of any cemetery, burial place, or other premises shall not inter or permit the interment or other disposition of the disinterred body of a deceased person until he [has] received a disintermentreinterment permit' in the same manner as is provided by section 4656, General Statutes of Minnesota, 1913, for recording permits for original interments.