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315. Beds; ventilation. The beds in every dormitory in such institution shall be separated by a passageway of not less than two feet in width, and so arranged that under each the air shall freely circulate and there shall be adequate ventilation of each bed, and such dormitory shall be furnished with such means of ventilation as the local board of health shall prescribe. In every dormitory six hundred cubic feet of air space shall be provided and allowed for cach bed or occupant, and no more beds or occupants shall be permitted than are thus provided for, unless free and adequate means of ventilation exist approved by the local board of health, and a special permit in writing therefor be granted by such board, specifying the number of beds or cubic air space which shall, under special circumstances, be allowed, which permit shall be kept conspicuously posted in such dormitory. The physician of the institution shall immediately notify in writing the local board of health and the board of managers or directors of the institution of any violation of any provision of this section.

§ 316. Cadavers.-The persons having lawful control and management of any hospital, prison, asylum, morgue or other receptacle for corpses not interred, and every undertaker or other person having in his lawful possession any such corpse for keeping or burial may deliver and he is required to deliver, under the conditions specified in this section, every such corpse in their or his possession, charge, custody or control, not placed therein by relatives or friends in the usual manner for keeping or burial, to the medical colleges of the state authorized by law to confer the degree of doctor of medicine and to any university of the state having a medical preparatory course of instruction, and the professors and teachers in every such college or university may receive any such corpse and use it for the purpose of medical study. No corpse shall be so delivered or received if desired for interment by relatives or friends within forty-eight hours after death, or if known to have relatives or friends without the assent of such relatives or friends; or of a person who shall have expressed a desire in his last illness that his body be interred, but the same shall be buried in the usual manner. If the remains of any person so delivered or received shall be subsequently claimed by any relative or friend, they shall be given up to such relative or friend for

interment. Any person claiming any corpse or remains for inter ment as provided in this section, may be required by the persons, college, university or officer or agent thereof, in whose possession, charge or custody the same may be, to present an affidavit stating that he is such relative or friend, and the facts and circumstances upon which the claim that he is such relative or friend is based, the expense of which affidavit shall be paid by the persons requir ing it. If such person shall refuse to make such affidavit, such corpse or remains shall not be delivered to him but he shall forfeit his claim and right to the same. Any such medical college or university desiring to avail itself of the provisions of this section shall notify such persons having the control and management of the institutions and places heretofore specified, and such undertakers and other persons having any such corpse in their possession, custody or control in the county where such college or university is situated, and in any adjoining county in which no medical college is situated, of such desire, and thereafter all such persons shall notify the proper officers of such college or university whenever there is any corpse in their possession, custody or control, which may be delivered to a medical college or university under this section, and shall deliver the same to such college or university. If two or more medical colleges located in one county are entitled to receive corpses from the same county or adjoining counties, they shall receive the same in proportion to the number of matriculated students in each college. The professors and teachers in every college or university receiving any corpse under this section shall dispose of the remains thereof, after they have served the purposes of medical science and study, in accordance with the regulations of the local board of health where the college or university is situated. Every person neglecting to comply with or violating any provision of this section, shall forfeit to the local board of health where such non-compliance or violation occurred, the sum of twenty-five dollars for every such non-compliance or violation, to be sued for by the health officer of such place, and when recovered to be paid over, less the costs and expenses of the action, to such board for its use and benefit.

§ 317. Cadavers in certain counties. The governors, keepers, wardens, managers, or persons having lawful control and man

agement of any hospital, prison, almshouse, asylum, morgue or other receptacle for corpses not interred, in the counties of Onondaga, Oswego, Madison and Cortland, and the warden of the Auburn state prison, in the county of Cayuga, and every undertaker or other person in the counties of Onondaga, Oswego, Madison and Cortland, having in his lawful possession any such corpses for keeping or burial, may deliver, and they are hereby required to deliver, under the conditions specified in this section, every such corpse in their or his possession, charge, custody or control, not placed therein by relatives or friends in the usual manner for keeping or burial, to the medical colleges or schools in said counties of Onondaga, Oswego, Madison and Cortland, authorized by law to confer either the degree of doctor of medicine, or the degree of doctor of dental surgery and to all other colleges or schools incorporated under the laws of the state in said counties for the purpose of teaching medicine, anatomy or surgery, and to any university in either of said counties having a medical preparatory course of instruction, and the professors and teachers in every such college, school or university may receive such corpses and use the same for the purposes of medical, anatomical or surgical science and study. No such corpse shall be so delivered if within forty-eight hours after death, it is desired for interment by relatives, or by friends, who will bear the expenses of its interment; nor shall a corpse be so delivered or received of any person known to have relatives, whose places of residence are also known, without the assent of such relatives; and such relatives shall be deemed to have assented thereto, unless they shall claim such corpse for the interment within twenty-four hours after being notified of the death of such person. If the remains of any person so delivered or received shall be subsequently claimed for interment by any relative or by any friend who will bear the expense of such interment, they shall be given up to such relative or friend for interment. Any person claiming any corpse or remains for interment, as provided in this section, may be required by the persons, college, school, university or officer or agent thereof, in whose possession, charge or custody the same may be, to present an affidavit stating that he is such relative or friend, and the facts and circumstances upon which the claim that he is such relative or

friend is based, and, if a friend, that he will bear the expense of such interment, the expense of which affidavit shall be paid by the person requiring it. If such person shall refuse to make such affidavit, such corpse or remains shall not be delivered to him, but he shall forfeit his claim and right to the same. Any such college, school or university in either of said counties desiring to avail itself of the provisions of this section shall notify said governors, keepers, wardens, managers, undertakers and other persons hereinbefore specified in the county where said college, school or university is situated, or in any of said adjoining counties, in which no such college, school or university is situated, of such desire, and thereafter it shall be obligatory upon such governors, keepers, wardens, managers, undertakers and other persons herein before specified, to immediately notify the proper officer or officers of said college, school or university, whenever there is any corpse in their possession, charge, custody or control, which may be delivered to a medical college, school or university under this section, and to deliver the same to such college, school or university. It shall be the duty of such governors, keepers, wardens, managers and persons having lawful control and management of the institutions hereinbefore mentioned, after being duly notified by any college, school or university of its desire to avail itself of the provisions of this section, to keep, if requested so to do by such college, school or university, and if provided by such medical college, school or university with a suitable book for that purpose, a true and correct record of any and all corpses thereafter coming into their possession, charge, custody or control, and of the disposition made of the same, giving the name of such corpses, if known; the dates of death and burial, if known; the names and places of residence, if known, of the relatives of such corpses; the names of the persons by whom such corpses are claimed for interment, and the names of the colleges, schools, universities or persons, to whom the same are delivered and the dates of such deliveries; which said books shall be open to the inspection of the officers and agents of such college, school or university furnishing the same and to the officers and agents of any other medical college, school or university entitled to receive corpses from the same county. If two or more colleges, schools or universities located in any one of said counties are entitled to receive corpses from the

same or from said adjoining counties, they shall receive the same in proportion to the number of matriculated students in each college. The professors and teachers in every college, school or university receiving any corpse under this section, shall dispose of same thereof, after they have served the purposes of medical, anatomical or surgical science and study, in accordance with the regulations of the local board of health where the college, school or university is situated. Any person neglecting to comply with or violating any provision of this section, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every such non-compliance or violation thereof, and it shall be the duty of the health officer, or person performing his duties, in the places where said medical colleges, schools or universities are situated, whenever he shall have knowledge or information of any non-compliance with, or violation of, any provision, or provisions, of this section, to sue for and recover, in his name of office, the aforesaid penalty, and to pay over the amount so recovered, less the cost and expenses of the action, to the health board of said locality, for its use and benefit.

$319. Consents requisite to the establishment of hospitals or 'camps for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. A hospital, camp or other establishment for the treatment of patients suffering from the disease known as pulmonary tuberculosis shall not be established in any town by any person, association, corporation or municipality except when authorized as provided in this section. The person, association, corporation or municipality proposing to establish such a hospital, camp or other establishment shall file with the state commissioner of health a petition describing the character thereof, stating the county and town in which it is to be located and describing the site in such town for such proposed hospital, camp or other establishment, and requesting the commissioner to fix a date and place for a hearing on such petition before the state commissioner of health and the local health officer, who shall constitute a board to approve or disapprove the establishment of such hospital, camp or other establishment in accordance with such petition. The state commissioner of health shall fix a date and place for a hearing on such petition,