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or consign for sale, or have in his possession with lik upholstered spring bed, or metal bed spring in the renovating of which there has been used any secondha not been thoroughly sterilized by an effective process, SEC. 389p. Tagging when new; idem, "secondhand."expose for sale, deliver or consign for sale, or have in intent

(a) Any mattress, upholstered spring bed, or metal tains only new material, unless there is attached thereto 1. The name and address either of the manufacturer the successive vendors; and

2. A description of the filling used and a statement used is new; or

(b) Any mattress, upholstered spring bed, or metal tains any secondhand material, unless there is attache bearing the word “secondhand,” and specifying :

1. The name and address either of the manufacturer vendors.

2. A description of the filling used, and

3. The date of sterilization of the material used and of the person, firm, or corporation sterilizing it;

4. In the description of the material used upon said unlawful to use in the description of such material us the construction of any article of bedding any term o mislead.

SEC. 389q. Tagging “remade or renovated."-No perso owner or have in his possession with intent to so deliv stered spring bed or metal bed spring which has been r

A fixed and uniform rate of payment for board and lodging shall be prescribed by the State department of health, except that the rate of payment shall be determined by the city department of health and the commissioner of health as to patients residing in cities of the first class. The health officer of the city, town, or village shall monthly, in advance, collect from each person residing within their respective districts who is boarded and lodged hereunder, except such whom the health officer of the city, town, or village shall find to be financially unable to pay such expense, one-third of the expense of boarding and lodging of each patient and pay the same into the county treasury. The board of estimate and apportionment of the city of New York shall, and the board of alderman, common council, board of supervisors or, as the case may be, such board or body in the respective cities, towns, and villages of the State as may have power to appropriate money for the use of such city, town, or village, may appropriate and include in the annual budget or other estimate of expenditures the funds necessary to pay the charges imposed by this act and shall include the amount in the tax levy succeeding such appropriation. Such health officer of the city, town, or village shall at monthly intervals pay over to the owners, lessees, or managers of such institutions or dwellings the expense of boarding and lodging each such patient as may be therein lodged and boarded. The district supervisor of the State department of health or of any city department of health shall be required to make visits to institutions or dwellings where tuberculous patients board at sufficiently frequent intervals so as to report upon violations of standards for sanitation and care of the patient and such regulations which shall be established by the State department of health in conformity and in accordance with this act. The failure of any owner, lessee, or manager of an institution or dwelling house in which a tuberculous patient boards to maintain such standards as are prescribed by the State department of health for the conduct of such establishments shall result in the revocation of the certificate to board tuberculous patients issued to such institutions or dwellings. If the district supervisor of the State or city department of health finds that the patient who is admitted to board in such institutions or dwellings fails to comply with reasonable rules and regulations established by the State department of health to govern his conduct and personal hygiene, such patient shall thereupon forfeit the right to further benefits under this act. The district supervisors of the State or city department of health, or official representatives properly delegated by them, shall be required to visit institutions or dwellings in which tuberculous patients are boarded under the terms of this act to give such advice and medical treatment as may be necessary in each individual case. They shall also be required to instruct the patients and the owners, managers, lessees, and the families of the latter as to the methods for the prevention of the spread or transmission of tuberculosis. Under the terms of this act the benefits herein enumerated shall be given only to those tuberculous individuals who are not bedridden and who do not require bedside nursing or special care.

SEC. 3. The State department of health is empowered to provide for emergency medical or nursing care.

SEC. 4. The sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray the expenses of the department of health in performing the duties imposed by this act and for the purpose of carrying out the other provisions of this act, payable by the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller on the certificate of the commissioner of health or the health officer of the city, town, or village, as the case may be, as herein before provided.

lines 1 and 6 and inserting in lieu thereof the word "fifty Act to Prevent Spread of Disease from Insanitary Pr

in Certain Cases. (Ch. 71, Act Aug. 26,

SECTION 1. That chapter 713 of the public laws passe sembly of North Carolina at its session in the year 191 the same is hereby amended by striking out all after line 8 of section 16 and inserting in lieu thereof the wor corporate limits of a town or city or the geographic ce

1 Reprint 338 from Public Health Reports, p. 406.

2 Id., p. 407.

3 Supplement 42 to Public Health Reports, p. 576.

tion of such hospital and acquire a new site by purchase, lease, or condemnation, as provided in this section, and establish the hospital thereon. The board of supervisors of any county of the State, including a county in which the provisions of this chapter are not mandatory, subject to the approval of the State commissioner of health, may enter into contract prior to November 1, 1920, for the care of its tuberculosis patients with the board of supervisors of an adjoining county having such county hospital, or with a private sanatorium within its county, or may, subject to like approval, jointly with the boards of supervisors of one or more other adjoining counties, established prior to November 1, 1920, and thereafter maintain such county hospital. In the establishment and maintenance of such joint county hospital, the boards of supervisors so uniting, in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State commissioner of health, shall have jointly, except as provided in this section, all the powers and authority conferred and obligations imposed upon boards of supervisors by this chapter for the establishment and maintenance of such county hospital in a single county and for that purpose each board of supervisors in such county shall appoint severally three of its members, who collectively shall be a commission to select a site for such joint county hospital in any town, city, or village in one of such counties and, when the necessary real property so selected by such commission shall have been acquired, purchased, or leased as herein provided, to erect all necessary buildings, and alter any buildings, on such property for the use of such joint hospital. Such commission shall have all the powers and duties conferred or imposed upon boards of supervisors by sections 45 to 49, inclusive, of this chapter, except as in this section expressly otherwise provided. Every such joint county hospital shall be completed and ready for occupancy prior to November 1, 1921. When completed, each board of supervisors in such counties shall appoint severally three citizens of its county, of whom at least one shall be a practicing physician, who collectively shall constitute a board of managers of such joint county hospital and shall exercise the functions and powers granted and be subject, so far as practicable, to the provisions of this chapter applicable to boards of managers of a county hospital established under this chapter in a single county and said board of managers shall appoint at least one nurse in each county for the discovery, visitation and care of persons affected with tuberculosis, and may appoint such additional nurse or nurses as it may deem necessary. The representation and voting power of each manager in such joint board shall be upon the basis and at the rate of one vote for each 1,000 and major fraction of the population of the county from which such managers shall be chosen as determined by the latest State census. The superintendent appointed by such board shall have the powers and perform the duties which are prescribed in this chapter for superintendents of hospitals in a single county, and the other employees of such board shall perform such duties as the board shall prescribe. The expense of the establishment and maintenance of a joint county hospital as herein provided shall be paid by such counties in proportion to the assessed value of the taxable property of each such county as it appears by the assessment rolls of such counties on the last assessment for State or county taxes prior to the incurring of such expense, and the board of supervisors of each county, so combining, is hereby authorized to borrow money to defray its share, estimated as herein provided, for the erection of such hospital and for the purchase of a site therefor on the credit of the county and issue county obligations therefor in such manner as it may do for other county purposes. All provisions of sections 45 to 49, inclusive, of this chapter not in conflict with the provisions of this section shall apply to such joint hospital, its establishment, maintenance, and operation, except that

for the purpose of the admission of patients to such hospital each of the counties so combining shall be considered the county in which the hospital is situated.

State Quarantine Establishment-Creation of Commission to Negotiate Transfer of, to United States. (Ch. 956, Act Sept. 27, 1920.)

SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 3422 of the laws of 1916, entitled "An act creating a commission to negotiate for the transfer of the quarantine establishment of [to] the United States, with power to effectuate such transfer, and if such transfer be effectuated, abolishing the office of health officer for the port of New York and ceding jurisdiction over the quarantine establishment to the United States," is hereby amended to read as follows:

SECTION 1. A commission is hereby created consisting of the governor, lieuten`ant governor, attorney general, comptroller, and State engineer and surveyor, to negotiate with the proper authorities of the United States for the transfer of title or the surrender of the possession and use to the United States, upon the payment of such compensation as may be agreed upon, of the quarantine establishment of this State, consisting of docks and wharves, anchorage for vessels, stationary hospital, boarding station, crematory, residence for officers and men, and such other places and structures as have been authorized by law for quarantine purposes, together with all the furniture and equipment in connection with such establishment. If such agreement be made, such commission shall have power to execute and deliver to the proper authorities of the United States, in behalf of this State, all deeds and other instruments necessary to effectuate such transfer or surrender.

District Laboratory Supply Stations and Substations-Establishment, Maintenance, and Operation. (Ch. 620, Act May 10, 1920.)

SECTION 1. Article 2 of chapter 49 of the laws of 1909, entitled "An act in relation to the public health, constituting chapter 45 of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended by inserting therein a new section, to be known as section 5, and to read as follows:

SEC. 5. Laboratory supply stations.-The State commissioner of health may establish stations, to be known as district laboratory supply stations, for the distribution of laboratory supplies furnished by the State department of health. He may designate districts to be served by such district laboratory supply stations, each such district to include one or more municipalities. The term "municipality' as used in this article means a city, village, town, or consolidated health district. The State commissioner of health may appoint the health officer of any municipality, the director or person in charge of any public health laboratory, or the director or person in charge of any health center located in each such district, to serve as the custodian of the supply station thereof. The health officer or other person so appointed shall, with the approval of the State department of health, establish such substations as may be necessary for the proper distribution of laboratory supplies to all physicians practicing in the district. Each district laboratory supply station and the substations thereof shall be maintained and operated in accordance with the rules and regulations of the State department of health and shall be subject at all times to inspection by authorized representatives of the State commissioner of health. The State commissioner of health may at any time discontinue any district supply station or substation or rescind any appoinment previously made under this act, when in his judgment or that of his authorized representa

Reprint 406 from Public Health Reports, p. 161.

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