SECT. 17. The clerk of each city or town shall be paid by such city or town for receiving, recording and returning the facts required to be recorded by this act, the sum of fifteen cents for each birth, marriage and death, and for each birth or death duly reported to the town clerk, physicians shall receive twenty-five cents from the town in which the birth or death has occurred. SECT. 18 This act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. Chapter 82. An Act to protect Waters used for Domestic Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECTION 1. Whoever knowingly and willfully poisons, defiles or in any way corrupts the waters of any well, spring, brook, lake, pond, river or reservoir, used for domestic purposes for man or beast, or knowingly corrupts the sources of the water supply of any water company, or of any city or town, supplying its inhabitants with water, or the tributaries of said sources of supply in such manner as to affect the purity of the water so supplied, or knowingly defiles such water in any manner, whether the same be frozen or not, or puts the carcass of any dead animal or other offensive material into said waters, or upon the ice thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year. SECT. 2. Whoever shall willfully injure any of the property of any water company or of any city or town used by it in supplying water to its inhabitants, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year; and such person shall also forfeit and pay to such water company, city or town three times the amount of actual damages sustained, to be recovered in an action of the case. SECT. 3. The provisions of all general laws, and of all special. acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. Chapter 115. An Act for the Prevention of Blindness. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: SECTION 1. Should one or both eyes of an infant become reddened or inflamed at any time within four weeks after birth, it shall be the duty of the midwife, nurse or person having charge of said infant to report the condition of the eyes at once to some legally qualified practitioner of medicine of the city, town or district in which the parents of the infant reside. SECT. 2. Any failure to comply with the provisions of this act shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both. SECT. 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-one. Chapter 89. An Act to amend section twenty-six of chapter twenty-six of the Revised Statutes, relating to Fire Escapes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section twenty-six of chapter twenty-six of the revised statutes is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: 'Section 26. Every public house where guests are lodged, and every building in which any trade, manufacture, or business is carried on, requiring the presence of workmen above the first story, and all rooms used for public assembly or amusement, and all tenement houses three stories in height where only one stairway or means of egress from the upper stories out of the building is provided, and all tenement houses of four or more stories in height, intended to be occupied by families, boarders or lodgers, above the third story, shall at all times be provided with suitable and sufficient fire escapes, outside stairs, or ladders from each story or gallery above the level of the ground, easily accessible to all inmates in case of fire or of an alarm of fire; the sufficiency thereof to be determined as provided in the following section.' Chapter 47. An Act to amend section nine of chapter fifteen of the Revised Statutes, relating to Burying Grounds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: Section nine of chapter fifteen of the revised statutes is hereby amended by inserting after the word "burying yard" in the second line, the words 'or incorporated cemetery or burying yard,' and by adding to said section the following words: 'nor shall any person, corporation or association establish, locate or enlarge any cemetery or burying ground by selling or otherwise disposing of lots, so that the limits thereof shall be extended nearer any dwelling house than twenty-five rods, against the written protest of the owner, provided, that nothing in this act shall prohibit the sale or disposition of lots within the limits of any existing cemetery or burying ground,' so that said section shall read as follows: 'Section 9. The municipal officers of any town, may on petition of ten voters, enlarge any public cemetery or burying yard or incorporated cemetery or burying yard within their town, by taking land of adjacent owners, to be paid for by the town or otherwise as the municipal officers may direct, when in their judgment public necessity requires it, provided, that the limits thereof shall not be extended nearer any dwelling house than twenty-five rods, against the written protest of the owner, made to said officers at the time of the hearing on said petition. Nor shall any person, corporation or association establish, locate or enlarge any cemetery or burying ground by selling or otherwise disposing of lots so that the limits thereof shall be extended nearer any dwelling house than twentyfive rods against the written protest of the owner, provided, that nothing in this act shall prohibit the sale or disposition of lots within the limits of any existing cemetery or burying ground. Chapter 28. An Act in relation to prosecutions for violations of municipal ordinances and by-laws. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Legislature assembled, as follows: In a prosecution in any municipal or police court for a violation of an ordinance or by-law of a city or town, or of any by-law of a village corporation or local board of health, it shall not be necessary to recite such ordinance or by-law in the complaint, or to allege the offense more particularly than in prosecutions under a general statute. ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. During the year 1890 the following books, journals, and pamphlets were added to the library of the Board by exchange and purchase. Books. Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office. Vol. XI, 1890. Richardson. The Health of Nations. Vols. I, II. Pistor. Deutches Gesundheitswesen. Berlin. 1890. London. First Report of the Royal Vaccination Commission. 1889. Second Report of the Royal Vaccination Commission. London. 1890. Gerhard. The Disposal of Household Wastes. Leffmann and Beam. Examination of Water. Philadelphia. 1889. Abel. Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking. 1890. Transactions of the Epidemilogical Society. London. Vols. 1 to VIII. Eitner. Die Jugendspiele. Liepzig. 1890. Preyer. Die Seele des Kindes. Leipzig. 1884. Baumgarten. Jahresbericht ueber die Fortschritte in der Lehre von den Pathogenen Mikroorganismen. Braunschweig. 1888. Orvananos. Ensayo de Geografia Medica Y Climatologia de la Republica Mexicana. Mexico. 1889. Do. Atlas. Uffelmann's Supplement for the year 1888. Perier. Hygiene de l'Adolescence. Paris. 1891. Coriveaud. Hygiene des Familes. Paris. 1890. Guyot-Daubes. Physiologie et Hygiene du Cerveau. Paris. 1890. Physical Training Conference. Boston. 1889. Schulz. Impfung, Impfgeschaft und Impftechnik. Berlin. REPORTS. Eleventh Biennial Report of the State Board of Health of California. 1888-90. Twelfth Annual Report of the State Board of Connecticut. 1889. 1890. |