the disease being confined to one part or section of the village, the remaining two-thirds being in a perfect healthy condition.

Dr. McCreary, of New Concord, in answer to a request for a full report of the outbreak, replied that there had been thirty cases and one death from typhoid-fever. He promised a full report at a later date.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, of July 2, reported a case of Asiatic Cholera in Pike county, near Waverly.

A telegram to Dr. Hutt, our correspondent at Waverly, was answered: No Asiatic Cholera and none reported in this county.. The report was officially corrected in the Columbus papers.

September 5 the Enquirer reported a number of cases of typhoid-fever at Lima, with fear of an epidemic. A letter to the health officer revealed the fact that there was but one or two cases in the town.

In the same issue the Enquirer published a dispatch from Tiffin, reporting a death from Asiatic cholera at Little Sandusky.

I telegraphed the health officer of Tiffin, who could learn nothing of such a case. I then telegraphed the health officer of Upper Sandusky, who replied: The death was from cholera morbus.

The Enquirer's misstatements were officially corrected, as I have on every opportunity corrected misrepresentations of this kind

Dr. Reed, health officer of Mansfield, called at the office September 10 with a sample of pressed beef which had made a number of people in Mansfield violently ill.

He requested us to have the meat examined, and Prof. Howard is at work at it now.

The routine work of the office, including the publication of the Weekly Health Bulletin and Monthly Sanitary Record, has been carried on as heretofore.

I have been mailing a copy of the Record free to each member of local boards of health, including the Mayor and health officer. But the increase in the number of local boards renders this impossible, with a 2,000 edition, as we now have over two thousand members of local boards.

If it is thought well to continue to supply these members free, we must increase our edition.

The Mansfield board has lately ordered fifteen copies one for each municipal officer-and paid subscriptions for the whole number.

I ask for some instructions in this matter.

I am pleased to inform you that we are now receiving our office supplies through the Secretary of State. This will save several hundred dollars each year.

I would recommend that an effort be made this winter to secure an amendment to the act creating the board, by which our printing could be done by the Supervisor of Public Printing. I have consulted the present Supervisor, Mr. Hirsch, who thinks we are entitled to it, and he promised to help us secure such an amendment. This would save the Board at least $1,000 each year.

Respectfully submitted.

C. O. PROBST, Secretary.

The Secretary's report was received and ordered filed for publication. It was voted to increase the circulation of The Monthly Sanitary Record from 2,000 to 3,000 copies a month, and the Secretary was authorized to receive advertisements to help defray expenses of publication.

Dr. Hoover submitted a report from the executive committee, showing the amount expended by the board during the current year.

The Secretary presented a set of rules and regulations of the State Board of Health, which were adopted by the board, and ordered printed for distribution. These are as follows:

OHIO STATE BOARD OF HEALTH,

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,

COLUMBUS, OHIO, October, 1889.

To Local Boards of Health, Health Officers, Mayors, and Township Trustees:

GENTLEMEN: We respectfully invite your attention to the enclosed Rules and Regulations of the Board, which were adopted at its last meeting. The State Board of Health has been given the supervision of the interests of the health and life of the citizens of the State. To better enable it to accomplish this work, an act of Legislature recently passed, empowers it to make such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to protect the public health, and requires health authorities and other officials, under penalty, to enforce such rules as the Board shall adopt.

In the work of preventing disease, the restriction and control of epidemic, contagious and infectious diseases assumes first importance, and to accomplish this it is absolutely essential that local boards of health should receive from attending physicians the earliest possible notification of the existence of such diseases. It is also importont that a central authority should receive, at short intervals, reports of all cases of such diseases.

We have enclosed a leaflet briefly stating the duties of local boards of health in preventing and restricting infectious diseases, and bespeak for it careful consideration.

The majority of our local boards of health have adopted rules requiring physicians to report infectious diseases; a large number have also adopted rules in regard to the proper care of persons dying of such diseases, and to secure the proper isolation of persons sick with or in association with persons sick with infections diseases. Such boards as have not done so will now be required by the State Board to adopt and enforce rules for these measures.

We trust you will give us your hearty support in our endeavor to properly organize the health forces of our State, and we hope to establish a closer relationship between the local and State health authorities. We will send you a supply of postal blanks for weekly reports of infectious diseases, and will expect a card from you each week, whether you have cases to report or not.

Health officers will please advise us of the action taken in this matter by their respective boards. Respectfully, C. O. PROBST, M. D., Secretary.

By order of the Board.

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE OHIO STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

The rules and regulations which appear below have been adopted in accordance with section 2 and section 4 of the act to create a State Board of Health, and of section 2115 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, which relates to the duties of local boards of health and health officers. These sections read as follows:

SECTION 2. The State Board of Health shall have the supervision of the interests of the health and life of the citizens of the State, and may make such quarantine and sanitary rules and regulations as they may deem necessary therefor; they shall make careful inquiry in respect to the causes of disease, and especially the invasion or spread of any infectious or contagious epidemic, or endemic disease, and investigate the sources of mortality, and the effect of localities, employments, conditions, ingesta, habits and surroundings on the health of the people, and shall investigate the causes of diseases occurring among the stock and domestic animals of the State, the methods of remedying the same by quarantine or otherwise, and shall gather information in respect to such matters and kindred subjects for dissemination among the people They shall advise officers of the Government, or other State Boards, in regard to the location, drainage, water supply, disposal of excreta, heating and ventilating of public buildings. They shall collect and preserve such information relating to forms of disease and death as may be useful in the discharge of the duties of said Board. It shall be the duty of all local boards of health, health authorities and officials, officers of State institutions, police officers, sheriffs, constables, and all other officers and employes of the State, or any county, city or town thereof, to enforce such quarantine and sanitary rules and regulations as may be adopted by the State Board of Health, and in the event of failure or refusal on the part of any member of said boards, or other officials, or persons in this section mentioned to so act, he or they shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars, upon first conviction, and upon a conviction of second offense of not less than one hundred dollars. O. L. vol. 86, p. 223.

4. It shall be the duties of boards of health, health authorities or officials, and of physicians in localities where there are no health authorities or officials, to report to the State Board of Health, promptly upon discovery thereof, the existence of any one of the following diseases which may come under their observation, to-wit: Asiatic cholera, yellow-fever, small-pox, scarlet-fever, diphtheria, typhus and typhoid-fever, and of such other contagious or infectious diseases as the State Board of Health may from time to time specify. O. L., vol. 83, p. 77.

SEC. 2115. The board shall appoint a health officer, who shall furnish his name and address and such other information as may be required by the State Board of Health; and may appoint a clerk, as many ward and district physicians as it may deem necessary for the care of the sick poor and such other persons as may be in need, and

define their duties and fix their salaries; and all such appointees shall serve during the pleasure of the board. O. L., vol. 85, p. 59.

Rule 1. It shall be the duty of all local boards of health to make weekly reports to the State Board of Health of all cases of diphtheria, scarlet-fever or typhoid-fever occurring within their jurisdiction.

Rule 2. It shall be the duty of all local boards of health to enforce a rule requiring physicians who are attending cases of diphtheria, scarlet-fever, typhoid-fever, smallpox, cholera, yellow-fever, or any other dangerous contagious or infectious disease within the jurisdiction of the board, to report to them the name, place of residence, and disease of patient, within twenty-four (24) hours after the nature of the disease is recognized.

Rule 3. It shall be the duty of all local boards of health, when notified of a case of small-pox, cholera, or yellow-fever, to immediately notify the State Board, and by telegram when possible. And in incorporated villages not having a local board of health, the mayor, and in unincorporated villages and townships the township clerk shall immediately report to the State Board of Health all cases of the above named diseases coming to their knowledge.

Rule 4. In times of epidemics, or threatened epidemics, it shall be the duty of all local boards of health, health authorities and officials, officers of State institutions, police officers, sheriffs, constables and all other officers or employes of the State, or any county, city or town thereof, to enforce such rules, regulations or orders as may be required by the State Board of Health or its executive officer.

Rule 5. It shall be the duty of all local boards of health, on or before the first Monday of March in each year, to report to the State Board of Health. Such reports shall embrace information in regard to the amount and character of work performed by the board during the year, the prevalence of preventable diseases, the sanitary condition of their respective municipalities, and such other information as may be required.

Rule 6. Local boards of health, and, in incorporated villages not having local boards of health, the council, and in unincorporated villages and townships, the township trustees, shall enforce the following provisions:

a. The body of any person dving of scarlet-fever, diphtheria, small-pox, cholera, yellow-fever or typhus-fever, shall not be taken into any church, chapel, or other public place, and the funerals of all such persons shall be strictly private.

b. In the care and burial of persons who have died of any of the above named diseases the undertaker or other person in charge of the funeral shall, within six (6) hours after death, completely envelop the body in a sheet thoroughly saturated with a solution of bi-chloride of mercury, in the proportion of one ounce of bi-chloride of mercury to one gallon of water. The body shall then be placed in a casket and buried as soon as possible, and in no case shall the body be again unwrapped or the casket opened.

C. Children from houses containing cases of dangerous contagious diseases, and all persons afflicted with such diseases, until pronounced not dangerous to others by some reputable physician, shali be prohibited from attending school, church, or other public place.

Rule 7. Any person violating these rules, or orders made in accordance therewith, shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars upon first conviction, and upon a conviction of second offense of not less than one hundred dollars.

These rules shall be in force from and after their adoption.
Attest:

Adopted September 19, 1889.

C. O. PROBST, Secretary.

Prof. Nelson offered an amendment to the by-laws, changing the dates

of regular meetings.

Dr. Wise then called Dr. Beckwith to the chair as the presiding officer for the ensuing year.

A communication was presented from Mr. Derthick, Dairy and Food Commissioner, in which it was stated that the Commission had been engaged in the analysis of baking-powder found upon the market, and that many of these contained alum. The State Board of Health was requested to give an opinion as to the effect of such baking-powders on health.

After some discussion, the question was referred to a committee-Dr. Hoover and the Secretary-with instruction to report at the next meeting of the Board.

A communication was presented from the health officer of Alliance, in which it was stated that in that place no recess was granted in the public schools, and when a scholar was granted permission to go out, he was compelled to remain five minutes after school..

After considerable discussion, the matter was referred to the Secretary, with instructions to receive further information from the Superintendent of the Alliance schools.

A communication was presented from the Secretary of the National Association of General Baggage Agents, with a copy of the rules adopted. by the Association for the transportation of dead bodies.

An amendment was offered by Dr. Anderson, and the rules, as amended, were adopted. These are as follows:

RULES FOR TRANSPORTATION OF DEAD BODIES, AS ADOPTED BY THE OHIO STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

RULE 1. The transportation of bodies of persons dead of small-pox, Asiatic cholera, leprosy, typhus-fever, or yellow fever, is absolutely forbidden.

RULE 2. The bodies of those who have died of diphtheria, anthrax, scarlet-fever, puerperal fever, typhoid-fever, erysipelas, measles, and other contagious, infectious, or communicable diseases, must be wrapped in a sheet thoroughly saturated with a strong solution of bi-chloride of mercury, in the proportion of one ounce of bi-chloride of mercury to a gallon of water; and encased in an air-tight zinc, tin, copper or lead-lined coffin, or in an air-tight iron casket, hermetically sealed, and all enclosed in a strong, tight wooden box; or the body must be prepared for shipment by being wrapped in a sheet and disinfected by a solution of bi-chloride of mercury, as above, and placed in a strong coffin or casket, and said coffin or casket encased in a hermetically sealed (soldered) zinc, copper, or tin case, and all enclosed in a strong, outside wooden box, of material not less than one inch and a half thick.

RULE 3. In case of contagious, infectious, or communicable diseases, the body must not be accompanied by articles which have been exposed to the infection of the disease. And in addition to permit from Board of Health, or proper health authority, which shall not be granted without satisfactory evidence of Rule 2 having been complied with, agents will require an affidavit from the shipping undertaker, certified to by the proper health authority, stating how body has been prepared and kind of coffin or casket used, which must be in conformity with Rule 2.