inspector shall receive a compensation of $70 per month, and said inspector shall devote all of his time to the duties of his appointment and shall be under the direction of and subject to the rules and orders of said board of health.

SEC. 5. Any person, partnership, corporation, officer of corporation, violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be liable to and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10 and not more than $100 for each violation.

SEC. 6. This ordinance shall be published in pamphlet form and shall be in force in two weeks from date of publication of same. The city clerk is ordered to cause at least 50 copies of ordinance published.

SEC. 7. All other ordinances pertaining to the subject matter of this ordinance are hereby repealed.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Cats-Those running at large to be impounded and destroyed. (Ordinance adopted June 11, 1912.)

That Article VIII of the police regulations be, and it is hereby, amended by adding to the end thereof another section, as follows:

"SEC. 8. That hereafter the poundmaster shall seize all cats found running at large and convey the same to the pound, or other place to be designated by the commissioners, and there destroyed. Any citizen may deliver any such animal to the poundmaster, who shall destroy the same as above required.”

The secretary of the Maryland State Board of Health reported by telegraph January 6 that a new focus of smallpox infection had occurred in Maryland at Bloomington, Garrett County, where two cases had been notified, and January 8 that there were 3 cases at Hamilton in Baltimore County.

City Reports for Week Ended Dec. 21, 1912.

inspector shall receive a compensation of $70 per month, and said inspector shall devote all of his time to the duties of his appointment and shall be under the direction of and subject to the rules and orders of said board of health.

SEC. 5. Any person, partnership, corporation, officer of corporation, violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be liable to and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10 and not more than $100 for each violation.

SEC. 6. This ordinance shall be published in pamphlet form and shall be in force in two weeks from date of publication of same. The city clerk is ordered to cause at least 50 copies of ordinance published. •

SEC. 7. All other ordinances pertaining to the subject matter of this ordinance are hereby repealed.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

Cats-Those running at large to be impounded and destroyed. (Ordinance adopted June 11, 1912.)

That Article VIII of the police regulations be, and it is hereby, amended by adding to the end thereof another section, as follows:

"SEC. 8. That hereafter the poundmaster shall seize all cats found running at large and convey the same to the pound, or other place to be designated by the commissioners, and there destroyed. Any citizen may deliver any such animal to the poundmaster, who shall destroy the same as above required."

The secretary of the Maryland State Board of Health reported. by telegraph January 6 that a new focus of smallpox infection had occurred in Maryland at Bloomington, Garrett County, where two cases had been notified, and January 8 that there were 3 cases at Hamilton in Baltimore County.

City Reports for Week Ended Dec. 21, 1912.

A report was received by telegraph, January 1, that there was an outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis at Lepanto, Poinsett County, Ark. On January 6, Dr. Morgan Smith, secretary of the Arkansas State Board of Health, reported by telegraph that the meningitis situation at Lepanto had improved that there had been 25 cases with 17 deaths, and that no new cases had occurred on January 5 or 6. On January 7 he telegraphed that there had been no new cases for three days.

Kansas Report for November, 1912.

The Kansas State Board of Health reports that during November, 1912, there were notified in the State cases of cerebrospinal meningitis as follows: Brown County, 1 case; Jackson County, 1 case; Sumner County, 1 case; Kansas City, 2 cases.

Tennessee.

The Secretary of the Tennessee State Board of Health reported. by telegraph January 8 that there was an outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis in Dyer County, Tenn.; that there had been 91 cases, or suspected cases, with 41 deaths; that the outbreak was under control; and that on January 6 only 3 new cases had been reported.