residing in the vicinity or passing along any street, lane, or highway.

SEC. 20. All vaults, privies, and cesspools shall be so constructed that the inside of the same shall be at least two feet distant from any street, lane, alley, court, square, public place, public or private passage-way, and from the line of every adjoining lot, unless the owner thereof shall otherwise agree or consent. No person shall open a vault, privy, or cesspool, or remove or haul the contents thereof through any street of the city, from the first day of May to the first day of November of each year, between the hours of six o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock in the evening.

SEC. 21. When any vault, privy, cesspool, or drain shall become offensive or obstructed, the same shall be cleansed and made free; and the owner, agent, occupant, or other person having charge of the premises in which any vault, privy, cesspool, or drain may be situated, the state or condition of which shall be a violation of the provisions of this chapter, shall remove, cleanse, alter, amend, or repair the same within such reasonable time, after notice in writing to that effect shall be given to either of them by the sanitary officer, as shall be expressed in such notice. In case of neglect or refusal to do so, the board of health may cause the same to be removed, altered, amended, or repaired as they may deem expedient, at the expense of the owner, agent, occupant, or other person aforesaid.

SEC. 22. Any person or persons, company or corporation, who shall violate, or cause to be violated, by agent or otherwise, any of the provisions of this chapter, or any of the orders, rules, or regulations of the board of health, or who shall fail to comply with any of the requirements thereof, by agent or otherwise, upon conviction before the police or other court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined not less than three nor more than twenty dollars, with costs of prosecution, except in cases where the punishment is prescribed by the laws of the state.

SOMERS WORTH.

The board of health of this city consists of the city physician, overseer of the poor, and a sanitary officer, who are paid one hundred dollars, fifty dollars, and one hundred and eighty dollars, respectively.

The public health ordinances of this city are almost word for word like those of Rochester.

LACONIA.

The board of health of this city is elected under the following provision of the city charter:

SECTION 18. The city council first elected under this act, shall, at their first meeting, elect three persons, legal voters of said city, to constitute a board of health, to serve until their successors are chosen in March, 1894, and qualified; and in the month of March, 1894, they shall elect one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years; and thereafter they shall annually, and in the month of March, and on or after the fourth Tuesday therein, elect one such person to serve on said board for the term of three years. Elections shall be so made that at least one member of said board shall be a physician. Said board shall receive such a compensation for services. as the city council shall prescribe.

The following ordinances, adopted by this city, relate to the functions of the board of health and the city physician:

CHAPTER IX.

BOARD OF HEALTH.

SECTION 1. The board of health first elected under the provisions of the city charter shall organize by the choice of one of their members as chairman, and another as clerk, and all succeeding boards of health of the city, elected as

provided by the terms of the charter, shall immediately after their election and qualification organize in the same

manner.

SEC. 2. The board of health may adopt such rules and regulations for their own and the government of all subordinate officers by them employed as they may deem expedient, not repugnant to the laws of the state. They shall receive such compensation for their services as the city council shall prescribe.

SEC. 3. The board of health shall have and exercise all the powers vested in, and shall perform all the duties prescribed for, health officers of towns under the Statutes. It shall be the duty of the board to enforce the laws of the state, and the regulations of the board, relative to health, and to make a report in writing of all acts done by them or under their authority to the city council once each month.

CHAPTER X.

CITY PHYSICIAN.

SECTION 1. The city council first elected under the act of incorporation of the city shall, as soon as convenient after its organization, by ballot, elect a city physician, to hold office until his successor is chosen in the month of March, 1894, unless removed by the city council for sufficient cause. And in the month of March, 1894, and after the second Tuesday therein, and thereafter annually in the month of March, and after the second Tuesday therein, the city council shall elect by ballot a city physician, to hold office for the term of one year and until his successor is chosen and qualified. The city physician shall be a resident of the city and a physician of good professional standing. He shall receive such salary or compensation for his services as the city council shall fix and determine, and his term of office shall begin at such time as the city council shall by ordinance determine.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the city physician to attend, under the direction of the board of overseers of the poor, upon all sick paupers and patients under the care of the city authorities, at the poor farm or elsewhere, except in cases provided for by the county; in case of an alarm of any infectious or contagious disease to give to the city council, or any committee thereof, all such professional advice and counsel as they may request of him, and generally to perform such other professional services as may reasonably be required of him by the mayor, city council, or overseers of the poor. He shall examine all persons injured by alleged defects in highways, or by other alleged negligence of the city, relative to the extent of the injuries received, and upon completion of such examination shall make a written report to the city council of the condition and effect of such injuries.

THE ADULTERATION OF COFFEE.

The adulteration of coffee is practised to such a large extent that the subject is receiving considerable attention in some states. Dr. Willis G. Tucker, director of the state laboratory of New York, renders a valuable report to the state board of health of that state upon the examination of coffee, tea, and cocoa. We present herewith a greater part of his report upon coffee. He examined six hundred and forty-two samples of these articles, collected from the retail grocery stores, and found much of the ground coffee and package coffee on sale to be adulterated, The means of the adulteration, and the notorious efforts in that direction, are well shown. The report says:

Coffee of commerce is the berry or seed of Coffee Arabica. The trees, growing wild, sometimes attain a height of fourteen to eighteen feet, but under cultivation rarely exceed six to nine feet. According to Thorpe three distinct species of coffee tree are now grown.

1. Arabian or Mocha coffee, having short, upright branches, with a brittle leaf, and seeds usually single in the berries.

2. Jamaica coffee, bearing longer and more pliable branches; a tough leaf, and seeds almost always double. 3. East Indian or Bengal coffee, of which the leaf is smaller than the Jamaica variety, and the berry very small.

The tree is now largely cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, Central America, Brazil, in Western Africa, in Arabia, Ceylon, India, Sumatra, Java, and various islands of the Pacific.