(Evidence of the existence of vermin or contagious disease where clothing is made shall be reported.)

SECTION 57. If said inspector finds evidence of infectious or contagious disease or of vermin present in a workshop or in a room or apartment in a tenement or dwelling house in which garments or articles of wearing apparel are made, altered or repaired, or in goods manufactured or in process of manufacture therein, he shall report the same to the state board of health, who shall then notify the local board of health to examine said workshop, room or apartment and the materials used therein; and if the board of health finds that said workshop or tenement or dwelling house is in an unhealthy condition and that the clothing and materials used therein are unfit for use, it shall issue such orders as the public safety may require.

(Clothing made in tenements and dwellings by unlicensed persons shall not be sold unless marked " tenement-made.")

SECTION 58. Whoever sells or exposes for sale coats, vests, trousers or wearing apparel of any description which have been made in a tenement or dwelling house in which the family dwelling therein has not procured a license, as required by section fifty-six, shall have affixed to each of said garments a tag or label not less than two inches in length and one inch in width, upon which shall be legibly printed or written the words "tenement made” and the name of the state and the city or town in which the garment was made.

SECTION 59. No person shall sell or expose for sale any of said garments without a tag or label as aforesaid affixed thereto, nor wilfully remove, alter or destroy such tag or label upon any of said garments when exposed for sale, nor sell or expose for sale any of said garments with a false or fraudulent label affixed thereto.

(Clothing made under unhealthy conditions and shipped into this Commonwealth shall be inspected.)

SECTION 60. If it is reported to said inspector or to the state board of health that ready-made coats, vests, trousers, overcoats or other garments are being shipped to this commonwealth, having been manufactured under unhealthy conditions, said inspector shall examine said goods and the condition of their manufacture, and if they are found to contain vermin or to have been made in improper places or under unhealthy conditions, he shall so report to the state board of health, which shall thereupon make such orders as the public safety may require.

(Penalty for violation of the five preceding sections.)

SECTION 61. Whoever violates any of the provisions of the five preceding sections shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.

RELATIVE TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS CONCERNING THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN, MINORS AND CHILDREN, THE VENTILATION AND SANITATION OF FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS, AND THE MANUFACTURE OF CLOTHING IN UNSANITARY PLACES.

Revised Laws, Chapter 108, Section 8.

SECTION 8. The state inspectors of health shall, except as otherwise provided in chapters one hundred and four, one hundred and five and one hundred and six, enforce the provisions thereof and all other provisions of law relative to the employment of women and minors in manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishments, the employment of children, young persons or women in factories or workshops, the ventilation of factories or workshops and the securing of proper sanitary provisions therein, and the making of clothing in unsanitary conditions. For such purposes, said inspectors may enter all buildings and parts thereof which are subject to the provisions of said chapters and examine the methods of protection from accident, the means of escape from fire, the sanitary provisions and the means of ventilation, and may make investigations as to the employment of children, young persons and women.

NEW YORK'S NEW COCAINE LAW.

LAWS OF 1907, CHAPTER 424.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PENAL CODE, IN RELATION TO THE SALE OF CERTAIN

DRUGS.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The penal code is hereby amended by inserting therein a new section to be section four hundred and five-a thereof and to read as follows:

₫ 405-a. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, furnish or dispose of alkaloid cocaine or its salts, or alpha or beta eucaine or their salts or any admixture of cocaine or eucaine, except upon the written prescription of a duly registered physician, which prescription shall be retained by the person who dispenses the same, shall be filled but once and of which no copy shall be taken by any person; except, however, that such alkaloid cocaine or its salts, and alpha or beta eucaine or their salts may lawfully be sold at wholesale upon the written order of a licensed pharmacist or licensed druggist, duly registered practicing physician, licensed veterinarian or licensed dentist provided that the wholesale dealer shall affix or cause to be affixed to the bottle, box, vessel or package containing the article sold, and upon the outside wrapper of the package as originally put up, a label distinctly displaying the name and quantity of cocaine or its salts, alpha or beta eucaine or their salts, sold,

and the word "poison" with the name and place of business of the seller, all printed in red ink; and provided also that the wholesale dealer shall before delivering any of the articles make or cause to be made in a book kept for the purpose an entry of the sale thereof stating the date of sale, the quantity, name and form in which sold, the name and address of the purchaser, and the name of the person by whom the entry is made; and the said book shall be always open for inspection by the proper authorities and shall be preserved for at least five years after the date of the last entry made therein. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment of not more than one year or a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or both.

§ 2. This act shall take effect September first, nineteen hundred and seven.

DEATHS FROM PATENT MEDICINES.

The following cases are taken from the columns of the "Journal of the American Medical Association," Vol. XLVIII., No. 20, May 18, 1907:

DEATH FROM TAYLOR'S ANTI-HEADACHE POWDERS.

Drs. M. J. Sanford and D. V. Van Wagman of Suffern, N. Y., writing independently of each other, report the following case of poisoning from headache powders:

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C. M., male, aged seven years, awoke in the morning complaining of headache. His mother gave him some Epsom salts and a cup of coffee. As he was no better at 9 o'clock she gave him one of Taylor's Anti-Headache Powders." The boy was given another powder at 10:15 and another at 11 o'clock. Soon after taking the third powder the child complained of faintness and lay down. At 11:45 his lips and tongue became very blue: his face was yellowish and his eyes staring - protruding — and unseeing. He was put on a lounge and apparently went to sleep, as he snored. At 12:15 he commenced to jerk, twitch and scream. The convulsive movements became worse, especially of the right side, and the boy died shortly before 1 o'clock, ten minutes before a physician arrived.

On the box containing the powders and on the circular accompanying it the following is printed:

Taylor's Anti-Headache Powders. Guaranteed absolutely harmless. Contain no opium, chloral, cocaine, antipyrine, morphine, phenacetine, bromide or other injurious substance.

Never known to fail in curing bilious, sick or nervous headache and neuralgia in a few minutes. Directions. - Take one powder dry on the tongue and drink a little water. Repeat if not entirely relieved in twenty minutes.

None genuine unless signed W. Scott Taylor.

The Taylor Drug and Chemical Co., Manufacturing Chemists-Laboratory-Trenton, N. J.

Dr. Van Wagman sent us a box of the powders; examination indicates that they contain, as active constituents, acetanilid, approximately 30 per cent.,

and caffein, approximately 2.5 per cent. Each powder of the specimen submitted weighs approximately 15 grains, and, therefore, contains about 42 grains of acetanilid.

THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS CONTINUES.

Dr. S. D. Barnes, Seattle, Wash., sends us an account of the death of twin babies, which, he says, occurred from an overdose of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.

On March 31 the children were found dead in the perambulator in which they had been put to sleep. Deputy Coroner Wiltsie and Police Sergeant Bannick investigated the affair. At first they believed that the children had been smothered, but later were informed that they had been given a dose of soothing syrup before being put to bed the night before. The stomach contents were analyzed, and the report of the analysts stated that small quantities of opium were found. The coroner decided that an inquest was unnecessary and signed the death certificate, giving accidental poisoning as the cause of death. In commenting on this case, the Seattle "Sunday Times" states that indiscriminate use of sleeping potions for infants in many cases leads to child murder, unintentional, it is true, but none the less murder. The "Times also deplores the fact that in Washington there is no law regulating the sale of these deadly "patent medicines."