Foods, Drugs, and Certain Preparations or Mixtures Containing Wood Alcohol-Sale Prohibited. (Ch. 158, Act Apr. 12, 1920.)

1. Section 1 of the act* [An act to prohibit the distribution and sale and to regulate the use of foods, drugs, and certain other mixtures and preparations, intended for use by man or animal, containing methyl or wood alcohol, approved April 1, 1912], of which this act is amendatory be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:

1. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to distribute or sell, any food, drug, preparation, or mixture of any kind whatsoever, intended for internal use, which contains methyl or wood alcohol; nor shall any person sell, or offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to distribute or sell, or use upon or apply to the body of another, any drug, hair tonic, bay rum, or similar preparation, intended for external use, which contains methyl or wood alcohol.

Bovine Tuberculosis-Inspection and Test of Animals for-Appraisal and Destruction of Diseased Animals-Payments to Owners of Animals Destroyed. (Ch. 91, Act Apr. 5, 1920.)

1. Paragraph 5 of section 2 of the act [An act concerning contagious and infectious diseases among cattle, regulating the importation of cattle into this State and providing measures to check the spread of diseases among cattle in this State; creating the Commission on Tuberculosis Among Animals, prescribing its powers and duties and fixing penalties for violations of this act, approved April 24, 1911], of which this act is amendatory be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows:

5. (a) Whenever the department of health of the State of New Jersey or the owner or owners of any dairy or breeding animals shall request the department of agriculture to cause an inspection to be made of any of such animals as may be supposed to be diseased with tuberculosis, the department of agriculture may designate a veterinarian to make such inspection, and if deemed advisable by the department of agriculture to conduct a tuberculin test of said animal or animals in accordance with the methods prescribed by the department of agriculture. If the owner or owners of such animal or animals shall agree to comply with and carry out the regulations of the department of agriculture relating to the removal from the herd and quarantine of condemned animals, the disinfection of the premises and the introduction into the herd of other animals, the expense of such inspection and tests shall be borne by the department of agriculture.

(b) Whenever such an inspection or test shall result in the condemnation of any animals examined or tested, such animal or animals shall be held in quarantine by the owner or owners thereof until notified by the Department of Agriculture to slaughter said animal or animals, and upon receipt of said notice said owner or owners shall immediately slaughter or cause such animal or animals to be slaughtered in the presence of a duly authorized Federal, State, or municipal inspector. If the owner or owners of any animal or animals so condemned shall, before the slaughter of said animal or animals, agree to accept the net proceeds from the sale of the meat, hide, and other marketable parts of said animal or animals, provided the same shall have passed inspection by a Federal, State, or municipal health inspector, then said owner or owners shall have no further claim against the State on account of said slaughter, or the owner or owners of said animal or animals so condemned may agree that

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the value of said animal or animals be determined by appraisement by the Department of Agriculture as hereinafter provided.

(c) The veterinarian making the tuberculin test, or any duly authorized agent of the Department of Agriculture, is hereby authorized and empowered to make an agreement with the owner or owners as to the valuation of the animal or animals condemned.

In all cases where no agreement can be reached, there shall be appointed three competent and disinterested freeholders, one appointed by the Department of Agriculture, one by the owner or owners, and the third by the first two, who shall ascertain and decide upon the appraised value of each animal condemned, and shall sign a certificate of such value in the presence of a witness, who shall attest the same. The appraised value of said animal shall not be affected by the fact of the reaction to the tuberculin test, and such valuation shall in each case be made upon the basis of the breeding, dairy, or beef value of said animal on the day of appraisement. The reacting animal shall be slaughtered within 30 days of date of appraisal, at such time and place as the Department of Agriculture shall designate, which must be done under the supervision of a Federal, State, or municipal inspector, approved by the Department of Agriculture, and the carcass examined and judged as to fitness for food. The salvage is the net amount received from the sale of the animal or animals, and a report of such sale shall be made on blanks furnished for that purpose by the Department of Agriculture, signed by the purchaser or his agent, and in no case shall the owner or owners receive compensation from the State if said statement prove false. Delivery and slaughtering charges may be deducted, but any charges for holding the animal pending slaughter shall not be deducted, and any such charges will not be paid by the State. Upon presentation of said appraisement certificate to the State comptroller, with the approval of the chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry indorsed thereon, the owner or owners shall receive from the State treasurer a sum equal to one-third the difference between the appraised value of the animal or animals and the salvage which the owner receives: Provided, The State does not pay the owner or owners a sum in excess of $100 for a registered animal and $50 for any unregistered animal. In the case of registered animals the owner or owners shall furnish a certificate of registration.

In all cases it is provided that the animal or animals shall have been owned at least 90 days in the State prior to the condemnation thereof; proof of ownership shall be furnished by the owner to the Department of Agriculture upon request made therefor: And provided further, That no compensation shall be made for animals considered by the Department of Agriculture to be of no value.

Biology of Sewage Disposal-Investigation of, by the Agricultural Experiment Station and the State Department of Health. (Ch. 126, Act Apr. 7, 1920.)

1. The agricultural experiment station of this State and the State department of health, acting together, shall conduct an investigation of the biology of sewage disposal, to the end that more effective methods of sewage purification may be discovered and applied to the purification of sewage in this State. 2. The said departments shall be authorized to expend a sum not exceeding $10,000 in the conduct of such investigation for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1920: Provided, Such sum is regularly appropriated therefor, and thereafter said departments shall be authorized to expend for such purpose such sums as shall hereafter be included in any annual appropriation bill.

3. This act shall become effective July 1, 1920.

Births and Deaths-Registration. (Ch. 99, Act Apr. 6, 1920.)

1. For the purpose of this act the following words shall have the meaning given :

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'Municipality" shall include every incorporated political subdivision including a county, but not including school distrct.

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Registration district" shall be each municipality. 'Department of health," "said department" and State department" shall mean "State department of health."

"State registrar" shall mean "State registrar of vital statistics."

2. The State department of health shall have charge of the registration of births and deaths in this State, and shall procure the faithful registration of the same in each registration district and in the bureau of vital statistics at the capitol of the State. The said department shall be charged with the uniform and thorough enforcement of this act throughout the State. Said department may promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid.

3. The State department of health shall establish a bureau of vital statistics as one of its departments or bureaus within 10 days after this act shall take effect and within 20 days thereafter it shall appoint a competent vital statistician, who shall be known as the State registrar of vital statistics, and who shall have the immediate direction of said bureau. The State department of health shall provide for such clerical and other assistants as may be necessary for the purposes of this act. The State registrar and all clerical and other assistants appointed under this act shall hold office subject to the provisions of an act entitled "An act regulating the employment, tenure and discharge of certain officers and employees of this State, and of the various counties and municipalities thereof, and providing for a Civil Service Commission, and defining its powers and duties," approved April 10, 1908, and the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and subsequent appointments to such office shall be made in accordance with the provisions of said act. There shall be provided for such bureau of vital statistics in the State capitol, or other suitable building, at Trenton, suitable offices, which shall be properly equipped with fireproof vault and filing cases for the permanent and safe preservation of all official records made and returned under this act.

4. All appointments of local registrars of vital statistics in each registration district in the State hereafter to be made shall be made by the local board of health for such district, but no physician, midwife, or undertaker shall be so appointed: Provided, That in any registration district where health officers or other health officials are, in the judgment of the State department of health, conducting effective registration of births and deaths under local ordinances, such officials, or one or more of them, may be appointed as registrars in and for such registration district, who shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the State registrar and to all the provisions of this act: And provided further, That all local and county registrars holding office at the time of the taking effect of this act shall continue in office subject to the provisions of this act. All appointments of local registrars hereafter to be made shall be immediately certified to the State department of health, but shall not become effective until 30 days from the date of filing of said certificate, unless sooner approved in writing by said State department. If within the said 30 days the State department of health shall disapprove of said appointment, the office Ishall be deemed vacant. In any county of the State where there is now or where there may be hereafter a county board of health and vital statistics,

said county shall be deemed to be a registration district under the provisions of this act.

5. The term of office of each local registrar so appointed and accepted shall be three years and until his successor has been appointed and qualified: Provided, The board of health of any district may appoint as local registrar the clerk of said board, in which event his term of office shall be concurrent with his term of office as clerk of said board, and he shall be subject to all the rules and regulations of the State registrar. Any vacancy occurring in the office of the local registrar shall be filled for the unexpired term only. At least 10 days before the expiration of the term of office of any such local registrar his successor shall be appointed by the board of health of the district. If the office of local registrar in any district shall become vacant, and the local board of health shall not within 10 days thereafter fill such vacancy and certify the same to the State department as herein provided, the State department of health may make such appointment, and in the meantime the clerk of the board of health of the district, or in his absence the president, shall act.

6. Any local registrar who, in the judgment of the State department of health, fails or neglects to discharge efficiently the duties of his office as set forth in this act, may be forthwith removed by the said State department, and he shall be subject also to such penalties as are provided by this act. Upon such removal the office shall be deemed vacant.

7. Each local registrar, immediately upon his acceptance as such, shall appoint a deputy whose duty shall be to act in his stead in case of his absence or disability; and such deputy shall, in writing, accept such appointment, and be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations governing local registrars. When it appears necessary for the convenience of the people in any registration district, the local registrar is hereby authorized, with the approval of the State registrar, to appoint one or more suitable persons to act as subregistrars, who shall be authorized to receive certificates of births and deaths and to issue burial or removal permits in or for such portions of the district as may be designated under the terms and conditions provided for by this act; and such subregistrars shall note, on each certificate, over the signature, the date of filing, and shall forward all certificates to the local registrar of the district within 5 days, and in all cases before the third day of the following month: Provided, That each deputy and subregistrar shall be subject to the supervision and control of the State registrar, and may be by him removed for neglect or failure to discharge efficiently his duties in accordance with the provisions of this act or the rules and regulations of the State registrar, and shall be subject to the same penalties for neglect of duty as the local registrar. 8. The State department of health or the local boards of health may combine two or more registration districts when desirable to facilitate registration.

9. The birth of each and every child born in this State shall be registered as hereinafter provided.

10. Within 5 days after the date of each birth, there shall be filed with the local registrar of the district in which the birth occurred a certificate of such birth by the physician, midwife, or person acting as midwife, who was in attendance upon the birth, which certificate shall be upon the form adopted by the State department of health.

In each case where there was no physician, midwife, or person acting as midwife, in attendance upon the birth, it shall be the duty of the father or mother of the child, the manager or superintendent of the public or private institution where the birth occurred, each in the order named, to file such certificate within

said period with the local registrar. In case the person filing such certificate is unable, by dilligent inquiry, to obtain any item or items of information contemplated in section 12 of this act, it shall then be the duty of the local registrar to secure from the person so reporting, or from any other person having the required knowledge, such information as will enable him to prepare the certificate of birth herein contemplated, and it shall be the duty of the person reporting the birth, or who may be interrogated in relation thereto, to answer correctly and to the best of his knowledge all questions put to him by the local registrar which may be calculated to elicit any information needed to make a complete record of the birth as contemplated by said section 12, and it shall be the duty of the informant as to any statement made in accordance herewith to verify such statement by his signature, when requested so to do by the local registrar.

11. In case the father or mother of the child does not, within one month after the date of birth, receive a notice from the local registrar that the birth of the child has been recorded, as provided in section 27 of this act, then the father or mother of the child, in the order named, shall within 5 days thereafter report to the local registrar the fact of such birth.

12. The certificate of birth shall contain the following items, which are hereby declared necessary for the legal, social, and sanitary purposes subserved by registration records:

(1) Place of birth, including county, municipality, name of street, and house number, and if no house number can be given, then a brief description of location; if in hospital or other institution, the name of the same is to be given also. (2) Full name of child. If the child dies without a name before the certificate is filed, then the words "died unnamed." If the living child has not yet been named at the date of filing certificate of birth, the space for “full name of child" shall be left blank and the name supplied subsequently by a supplemental report, as hereinafter provided.

(3) Sex of child.

(4) Whether a twin, triplet, or other plural birth. A separate certificate shall be required for each child in case of plural births.

(5) For plural births, number of each child in order of birth.

(6) Whether legitimate or illegitimate.

(7) Date of birth, including the year, month, and day.

(8) Full name of father and mother.

(9) Residence of father and mother.

(10) Color or race of father and mother.

(11) Age of father and mother at last birthday in years.

(12) Birthplace of father and mother, country, State, and municipality if known.

(13) Occupation of father and mother if engaged in any remunerative employment, with the statement of (a) trade, profession, or particular kind of work; (b) general nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed (or employer), and in case of mother (c) date immediately preceding confinement to which such employment continued.

(14) Maiden name of mother.

(15) Number of children born to this mother, including present birth. (16) Number of children of this mother now living.

(17) What preventative for ophthalmia neonatorum was used.

(18) The certification of attending physician, or midwife, or person acting as midwife, as to attendance at birth, and hour of birth. This certification shall be signed by the person making the same, as hereinbefore provided, with date of signature and address.