TOLEDO, OHIO.

FOODSTUFFS-PROTECTION OF.

(Regulation Board of Health, adopted June 19, 1912.)

SECTION 1. That no person or persons shall operate any bakery, confectionery, creamery, dairy, dairy barn, milk depot, laboratory, hotel, restaurant or eating house, packing or slaughter house, or ice cream plant, or any place where any butter, butterine, meat, fruit, cake, candy, confectionery, fish, fowl, vegetable, lard, cheese, bird, or any other food article or food product is manufactured, packed, stored, deposited, collected, prepared, kept, or exposed for sale, or offered for sale, produced or sold, for any purpose whatever, where any of the said food articles or food products are not securely protected by coverings, or otherwise, so as to thoroughly protect the same from dust, dirt, flies, and by all reasonable means from all foreign or injurious contamination.

SEC. 2. That no employee, person or persons operating any place recited in the first section of this resolution shall knowingly require, permit, or suffer any person to work in any building, room, cellar, basement, or vehicle, or any other place occupied or used for the purpose or purposes recited in section 1 hereof who is affected with any venereal disease, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, yellow fever, tuberculosis or consumption, bubonic plague, Asiatic cholera, leprosy, trachoma, typhoid fever, epidemic dysentery, measles, mumps, German measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, or any other infectious or contagious or loathsome disease.

SEC. 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this resolution shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $100 for the first offense, and for each subsequent offense shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $200, or imprisoned in the workhouse not less than 30 days nor more than 90 days, or both.

This resolution to take and be in effect on and after the due notice thereof as provided by law.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

WHOOPING COUGH-APPEARANCE ON THE PUBLIC STREETS OF THOSE SUFFERING FROM. (ORDINANCE ADOPTED JUNE 7, 1912.)

Ordered: That the regulations promulgated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia on April 5, 1907, for the prevention of the spread of scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, chicken pox, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and typhoid fever, is hereby amended by inserting after the proviso appended to section 2, the words, "and if the patient be under 18 years of age, not unless accompanied by an attendant 18 years or more of age, duly authorized and empowered by the parent or guardian of the patient to enforce the proper isolation of said patient," so that said proviso will read:

"Provided, That patients suffering from whooping cough may appear upon the public streets, and may go or be carried from place to place over the public streets without special authorization from the health officer, but not at such times and places or in such manner as to expose other persons to infection, and if the patient be under 18 years of age, not unless accompanied by an attendant 18 years or more of age, duly authorized and empowered by the parent or guardian of the patient to enforce the proper isolation of said patient."

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Maryland Garrett County-Two New Foci Smallpox.

The State department of health of Maryland reported by telegraph December 28 that there were two new foci of smallpox infection in the State as follows: Frankville, Garrett County, 1 case; Deer Park Garrett County, 1 case.

Cases and Deaths Reported by Cities for Week Ended Dec. 14, 1912.

POLIOMYELITIS (INFANTILE PARALYSIS).

During the week ended December 14, 1912, poliomyelitis was reported by cities as follows: Chicago, Ill, 2 cases; Haverhill, Mass., 1 case; Los Angeles, Cal., 2 cases; New York, N. Y., 8 cases.

ERYSIPELAS.

Cases and Deaths Reported by Cities for Week Ended Dec. 14, 1912.

During the week ended December 14, 1912, pellagra was reported by cities as follows: Los Angeles, Cal., 1 death; Nashville, Tenn., 1 case; Portsmouth, Va., 1 death.

California Squirrels Collected and Examined for Plague Infection. During the week ended December 14, 1912, there were examined for plague infection 162 ground squirrels from San Joaquin County and 68 from Santa Clara County. No plague-infected squirrel was found.

PNEUMONIA.

Cases and Deaths Reported by Cities for Week Ended Dec. 14, 1912.

Cases and Deaths Reported by Cities for Week Ended Dec. 14, 1912.