RULE 4. The bodies of persons dead of diseases that are not contagious. infectious or communicable, may be received for transportation to local points in the same State, when encased in a sound coffin or metallic case, and enclosed in a strong wooden box, securely fastened so it may be safely handled. But when it is proposed to transport them out of the State to an inter-State point (unless the time required for transportation from the initial point to destination does not exceed eighteen hours), they must be encased in an air-tight, zinc, tin, copper, or lead-lined coffin, or an air-tight, iron casket, or a strong 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 thick. In all cases the outside box must be provided with four iron chest handles.

RULE 5. Every dead body must be accompanied by a person in charge, who must be provided with a ticket, and also present a full first-class ticket marked "corpse," and a transit permit from Board of Health, or proper health authority, giving permission for the removal, and showing name of deceased, age, place of death, cause of death, (and if of a contagious or infectious nature,) the point to which it is to be shipped, medical attendant, and name of undertaker.

RULE 6. The transit permits must be made with a stub, to be retained by the person issuing it; the original permit must accompany the body to destination, and two coupons; the first coupon to be detached by agent at initial point and sent to the general baggage agent, and the second coupon by the last train baggage-man. The stub, permit and coupons must be numbered so the one will refer to the other, and on back of permit will be a space for undertaker's affidavit, to be used in cases of contagious or infectious diseases, as required by Rules 2 and 3.

RULE 7. The box containing corpse must be plainly marked with paster, showing name of deceased, place of death, cause of death, the point to which it is to be shipped, number of transit permit issued in connection, and name of person in charge of the remains. There must also be blank spaces at bottom of paster for station agent at initial point to fill in the form and number of passage ticket, where from, where to, and route to destination of such ticket.

RULE 8. It is intended that no dead body shall be moved which may be the means of spreading disease; therefore, all disinterred bodies, dead from any disease or cause, will be treated as infectious and dangerous to the public heaith, and will not be accepted for transportation unless said removal has been approved by the State Board of Health, and the consent of the health authority of the locality to which the corpse is consigned, has been first obtained, and the disinterred remains enclosed in a hermetically sealed (soldered) zinc, tin, or copper-lined coffin or box, or box encased in hermetically sealed (soldered) zinc, tin, or copper cases.

The Secretary was instructed to have printed copies of these rules sent to railroad companies, boards of health and undertakers of Ohio.

The Secretary was appointed a delegate to the meeting of the American Public Health Association, to be held in Brooklyn in October.

The Secretary presented a circular-letter to health officers, with a list of questions, drafted to elecit information in regard to the sanitary condition of schools and school-houses in Ohio.

The letter and questions were adopted and ordered printed and distributed.

The annual report was presented by the Secretary. The report was adopted and ordered submitted to the Governor.

At 7:30 P. M., Thursday, the board proceeded in a body to the Second Presbyterian Church, where the following programme was given :

PROGRAMME.

1. ADDRESS OF WELCOME

Hon. W. R. Burnet, Mayor, and President of Board of Health, Springfield.

2. RESPONSE

D. H. Beckwith, M. D., President State Board of Health, Cleveland.

3. MICRO-ORGANISMS, AND THEIR RELATION TO DISEASE

S. P. Wise, M. D., Member of State Board of Health, Millersburg.

4. THE SANITARY TEACHING OF THE SCRIPTURES

Rev. Samuel A. Ort, President Wittenberg College, Springfield.

5. THE PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION

C. O. Probst, M. D., Secretary State Board of Health, Columbus.

6. MONEY VALUE OF A LOW DEATH RATE

H. H. Seys, M. D., Health Officer, Springfield.

7. WHAT OUR SCHOOLS MAY DO FOR SANITARY SCIENCE

E. T. Nelson, M. A. Ph. D., Member State Board of Health, Delaware.

8. DIPHTHERIA IN SPRINGFIELD

W. W. Hall, M. D., Springfield.

REMARKS.

The Board adjourned to meet the third Wednesday in January, 1890.

Attest:

C. O. PROBST, Secretary.

During the four weeks ending November 9, 1888, diphtheria was reported from Maineville, Malta, Russelville, Toledo, Wellston, Collinwood, East Liverpool, Galion, Columbus, Hartwell, Cleveland, East Palestine, Carthagena, Perry, Ironton, Poplar, Celina, Keene, Cynthiana, Chillicothe, Logan, Dennison, Dayton, New Carlisle, New Washington, Elmore, Rio Grande, Louisville, Reynoldsburg, Portsmouth, Mansfield, Hamden Junction, Hamilton, Worthington, Flushing, Lebanon, Kalida, Bluffton, Bucyrus and Washingtonville.

Scarlet-fever was reported from Antwerp, Cincinnati, Toledo, Logan, Cambridge, Portsmouth, Chillicothe, Cleveland, Marshfield, Ironton, New Philadelphia, Carrollton, Piqua, Gettysburg, Flushing, Perrysburg, Shelby, East Liverpool, Galion, Louisville, McComb, Oberlin and Cincinnati.

Typhoid-fever was reported from Blanchester, Lebanon, Anna, Rio Grande, Carthagena, Plymouth, Martin's Ferry, Bethel, Middlepoint, Russelville, Wellston, New Carlisle, Cincinnati, Toledo, Columbus, Sherodsville, Independence, Logan, Perrysburg, Cleveland, Hamden Junction, Celina, Alton, Crestline, Keene, New Philadelphia, Malta, Nevada, Eaton, Flushing, Cambridge, Nelsonville, Conneaut, Galion, Minster, New Washington, Glencoe, Sandusky, Gilboa, Deersville, Dialton, Botkins, Tranquility, Chillicothe and Hamilton.

During the four weeks ending December 14, 1888, diphtheria was reported from Goshen, East Townsend, Loveland, Malta, Holmesville, Martinsville, Celina, Somerset, Amelia, Russell, Ottawa, Louisville, Keene, Cynthiana, Mt. Liberty, Malta, Summerfield, Independence, Carrollton, Logan, Columbus, Toledo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Hamilton, Columbus Grove, New Petersburg, Clearport, Westboro, Richwood, Senecaville, Zanesville, DeGraff, Milnersville, Cynthiana, Decatur, Waynesfield, Dayton, Collinwood, Ansonia, Wadsworth, Bucyrus, Lovetts, Troy and Cleves.

Scarlet-fever was reported from Botkins, Piqua, Carrollton, Bowling Green, McConnelsville, Mt. Sterling, Mt. Gilead, Columbus, Dayton, Collinwood, Toledo, Wooster, Milnersville, Elmore, Broadway, Shreve, New Holland, Gettysburg, Goshen, Richwood, Warren, Ravenna, Milledgeville, Sandusky, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Wilkesville, Attica and Flushing.

Typhoid-fever was reported from Plain City, Celina, Bloomville, Perrysville, Clearport, Sandusky, Mechanicstown, Upper Sandusky, Martin's Ferry, Basil, Ottawa, Butlerville, Russelville, New Carlisle, Minster, Logan, Wellsville, Cincinnati, Flushing, Independence, Summerfield, Miltonsburg, Malta, Marshfield, Columbus, Cleveland, Mt. Vernon, Norwalk, Carbon Hill, Potsdam, Range, New Holland, Bloom Centre, Piqua, Dasie, Wellston and Plainfield.

During the four weeks ending January 11, 1889, diphtheria was reported from Shadeville, Duncan's Falls, Port Jefferson, Maineville, Louisville, Akron, DeGraff, Madisonville, West Jefferson, Cleves, Zanesville, New Washington, Harbor, East Palestine, Hamilton, Toledo, Cincinnati, Bucyrus, Mt. Vernon, Dayton, Oxford, Westerville, Piqua, Wyoming, Blanchester, Decatur, Mifflin, Cynthiana, Richwood, Loveland, Fincastle, Potsdam, Goshen, Wadsworth, Alliance, Washingtonville, Logan, Norwalk, Georgetown, Wooster, Prospect, Carbon Hill, Carthagena, Amelia and Columbus.

Scarlet-fever was reported from Glencoe, Prospect, Potsdam, Toledo, Columbus, Piqua, Wooster, East Liverpool, Goshen, New Holland, Westminster, Chillicothe, Lee, Wyoming, White Cottage, Kalida, Plymouth, Ironton, Perrysburg, Collinwood, Portsmouth, Shelby, Mechanicsburg, Cincinnati, Dayton, Glenville, Norwalk, Mifflin, Gettysburg, Carthage, Bucyrus, Bowling Green, Broadway, Oxford and Camden.

Typhoid-fever was reported from Lyons, Martin's Ferry, Potsdam, Harbor, Celina, Logan, Cincinnati, Blanchester, Carthagena, Madisonville, Richwood, Botkins, Louisville, Toledo, Cambridge, Collinwood, Washington C. H., Jackson, Bristolville, Waynesville, Bloomingburg, Flushing, East Palestine, Perrysburg, Minster, Crestline, Piqua, Kalida, Maineville, Caldwell, Norwalk and East Liverpool.