(b) Inasmuch as the control and abatement of communicable diseases depends upon the knowledge tion of cases of such diseases by the local, county, ar it is hereby ruled that the diseases named in paragr to be notifiable diseases, and the occurrence of su shall be reported as herein provided. Hereafter e or other practitioner of the healing art practicing who treats or examines any person suffering from pected to be suffering from or afflicted with, any one

SEC. 5. The health officer of any county or district shall keep an accurate record of all activities of the department of health of the county or district which he serves for use of the public and for information to the board of 'health, and such reports as required by the board of health shall be made to it, and all officers and employees under this act shall be subject to the jurisdiction and regulations of the State board of health or its executive committee.

SEC. 6. It shall not be necessary that any health officer selected under this act shall be a resident of the county or district for which he is selected. Suitable quarters must be provided by the board of supervisors of the district or county for the office and health work of the county or district, and the health officer appointed under this act shall establish himself in the quarters so provided.

SEC. 7. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act shall be repealed and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. But where counties do not take advantage of this act they shall proceed as heretofore.

Pupils Medical Examination and Treatment of—Instruction of, in Health Matters. (Ch. 161, Act Apr. 1, 1920.)

SEC. 3. The State board of education shall make adequate provision for instruction in general hygiene, individual hygiene, group and intergroup hygiene; provision for a regular periodic and thorough health examination and inspection; and for such reasonable correlation as may be necessary for the treatment of health abnormalities through available agencies inside or outside the school system; and provision for education and the health training through physical exercise, games, play, recreation, and athletics. But this act, in so far as it provides for medical treatment shall not be construed to interfere with the practice of the religious tenets of any church whatsoever, nor to compel submission of any child to medical or surgical treatment without the consent of the parent or guardian of such child.

SEC. 7. The provisions of this act shall become effective only upon condition that the Federal Government provide funds dollar for dollar with the State of Mississippi for carrying out the provisions of this act.

Tuberculosis in Cattle-Control and Eradication. (Ch. 327, Act Mar. 26, 1920.)

SECTION 1. Tuberculosis [sic] cattle; live stock board to cooperate in tests.— That chapter 2151 of the laws of 1918 be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: That the State live-stock sanitary board be and the same is hereby directed to employ one or more qualified veterinarians to be paid from the funds at the disposal of said board, who shall cooperate with the veterinarians of the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry, in testing cattle for tuberculosis in this State.

SEC. 2. Veterinarians to be detailed to aid counties.-That this [sic] State live-stock sanitary board be and the same is hereby directed to detail a veterinarian to assist such counties as desire to undertake the control and eradication of tuberculosis among cattle and such assistance shall be given to the counties in the order in which request is made and to the extent that the funds of the live-stock sanitary board will permit.

1 Supplement 38 to Public Health Reports, p. 183.

SEC. 3. Elections on tuberculosis control, provisions for.-That the county boards of supervisors upon presentation of a petition of 20 per cent of the qualified electors of such county, on the proposition of tuberculosis control and eradication, the board of supervisors [sic] shall order an election by giving 30 days' notice, and if a majority of the qualified electors in the county voting in said election vote in favor of tuberculosis control and eradication, then said work of tuberculosis control and eradication shall be taken up under the direction of the State live-stock sanitary board in cooperation with the Federal Government, and such cattle tested for tuberculosis as may be required by the State live-stock sanitary board. Where a county refuses by a vote to go into eradication of tuberculosis or before the question has been voted in any county, any owner of cattle may apply to the board of supervisors and upon such application the provisions of this law, may apply to such owner individually.

SEC. 4. Payment for condemned cattle; Appraisement.-That the county board of supervisors of the various counties be and the same are hereby authorized to pay out of the general funds of any county in Mississippi in which an election has, or has not, been held, on the proposition of tuberculosis control and eradication, or where any owner of cattle may have applied to the board of supervisors to come within the provisions of this law and where such application has been received and approved by the board of supervisors of said county, not more than $75 for each grade animal condemned or $125 for each registered [animal] condemned for tuberculosis by a veterinarian commissioned by the State live-stock sanitary board or a veterinarian of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry working in cooperation with the State live-stock sanitary board in the various counties.

SEC. 5. Test of cattle; disposition of condemned animals.-Cattle which react to the tuberculin test or show marked diagnostic symptoms of tuberculosis shall be condemned and branded with the letter "T" on the left jaw, and be disposed of as directed by the live-stock sanitary board. Should there be any revenue derived from cattle condemned under this act, such moneys if they exceed the amount allowed the residue shall be paid to the owner.' SEC. 6. Penalty for violation of this act.-That any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act, or any of the rules and regulations of the live-stock sanitary board, relative to the control and eradication of tuberculosis, made and promulgated under this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $300, or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months, or both, at the discretion of the court.

2 This sentence reads the same as in the session laws.

MISSOURI.

Communicable Diseases-Reports of Cases-Duty of Health Officer-Quarantine Contacts and Suspected Cases-Restrictions on Well Persons in Homes Under Quarantine-Interference with Health Authorities Prohibited-Placarding-Handling and Sale of Milk and Other Food-Library Books-School Attendance-Closing of Schools-Duty of Attending Physician-Disinfection-Letting of Rooms or Premises Previously Occupied by Infected Persons-Funerals-Action by State Board of Health in Certain Cases. (Reg. Bd. of H., Jan. 14, 1920.)

CHAPTER 1. RULE 1. Definitions.-Unless specifically provided herein the following words and terms used in these rules and regulations are defined for the purposes thereof, as follows:

(1) The term "infectious or contagious diseases" is used simply in the sense of "communicable diseases." No effort is made to differentiate between the meaning of infectious and contagious.

(2) The word town means and includes city, town, or village.

(3) The term "local board of health" means and includes the local board of health and the executive officer of the board, whether the medical health officer when one has been appointed or the secretary when there is no health officer.

(4) The term "health officer' means and includes the executive officer, or any duly authorized agent of the board, or the county commissioner of health or his duly authorized agent.

(5) The term householder means and includes the parents, guardians, caretakers, or other persons who have charge of children or minors, or of the household, or of a number or group of persons who dwell together or have their lodging or board together, and to the keeper, superintendent, manager, or other person who has charge of an almshouse, workhouse, house of correction, jail, prison, hospital, or boarding school, camp, or other institution.

RULE 2. Notifiable diseases.-The following diseases are declared to be noti fiable diseases:

RULE 3. Physicians to report cases. When any physician knows or has reason to believe that any person whom he has called to visit, or who visits or consults him, is infected with any of the diseases in rule 2, division A, such physician shall forthwith give notice thereof to the local board of health or to the health officer of the town in which such person lives, or if residing without the corporate limits report shall be made to the county commissioner of health of that county. Such reports shall be by telephone when practicable and shall include the full name, age, occupation, and address of the person affected, together with the name of the disease and date of onset.

RULE 4. Householders to report cases.-Whenever any householder knows or has reason to believe that any person within his family or household has any of the diseases listed in rule 2, division A, providing no physician is in attendance, he shall, within 24 hours, give notice thereof to the health officer or the local board of health of the town in which he resides, or if residing without the corporate limits, report shall be made to the county commissioner of health of that county, and such report shall be by telephone when practicable and shall also be made in writing.

RULE 5. Reports to county commissioner of health. The health officer or executive officer of each local board of health shall report promptly to the county commissioner of health of his county upon blanks furnished by him for that purpose, and at such times and in such manner as is provided by those blanks, all cases and outbreaks of the diseases which are enumerated in rule 2, division A.

RULE 6. Reports to State board of health.—The county commissioner of health shall make a compiled report to the State board of health of all cases of reportable diseases as indicated in rule 2, division A, which have been reported within his county jurisdiction during the preceding week up to and including Saturday, said report to be mailed so as to reach the State board of health offices not later than the succeeding Tuesday of each week.

Note. The secretary of the State board of health has been appointed collaborating epidemiologist to the U. S. Public Health Service and having been supplied with franked postal cards for forwarding reports to him, a report made on such franked card and addressed to the collaborating epidemiologist shall be deemed a report made to the State board of health.

RULE 7. Duty of health officer.-Whenever a health officer is informed or has reason to suspect that there is a case of reportable disease within the territory over which he has jurisdiction, he shall immediately examine into the facts of the case and shall adopt the quarantine or employ the sanitary measures directed by the State board of health in dealing with such case or

cases.

RULE 8. Quarantine.-The following degrees of quarantine, or control, shall be carried out in all cases of infectious or contagious diseases which the State board has declared or may declare notifiable or quarantinable: Full quarantine, modified quarantine, and observation.

Full quarantine.-Full quarantine is defined to mean and include:

(a) Strict isolation of the person sick and of those attendant upon him in a room or rooms screened against flies and mosquitoes in the months when these insects are around.

(b) Absolute prohibition of entrance to, or exit from, the building, or in case of buildings of proper construction, from the isolated apartment, in which the sick person is confined except the attending physician, health authority, or any person or persons specially authorized by the health authorities to enter or to leave the building.

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