Penalty. Public Statutes, c. 90, § 24. Commissioners Commissioners shall make in to abortion in neat stock. 1884, 232, § 1. parties to whom such sales are made; and the proceeds of the sales made by order of the commissioners shall be applied in payment of the appraised value of said animals. 168. Whoever violates any of the provisions of the preceding section shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and the costs of prosecution. 169. Cattle commissioners, now or hereafter appointed, shall keep a full record of their doings, and report the same to the legislature on or before the tenth day of January in each year, unless sooner required by the governor; and an abstract of the same shall be printed in the annual report of the state board of agriculture. 170. It shall be the duty of the cattle commissioners quiries relative to make inquiries and gather facts and statistics in relation to the prevalence among the neat stock of this state, of the disease known as abortion, the annual losses caused thereby, and its effect on the healthfulness of milk as an article of food. May make experiments and exercise other powers. 1884, 232, § 2. May kill sick Appropriation. 1884, 232, § 4. 171. To ascertain the real character of the disease, its cause, and the best methods of its cure or prevention, the commissioners may make or cause to be made experiments, investigations and examinations, and for this purpose shall have and exercise all the powers conferred upon them in cases of contagious disease by the provisions of section fourteen of chapter ninety of the Public Statutes. 172. The commissioners for the purpose of aiding them in their investigations may kill any animal affected with said disease, and such animal shall be paid for as provided in section seventeen of chapter ninety of the Public Statutes. Said commissioners shall make a detailed statement in their annual report of their doings under the provisions of this act. 173. There shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, to be expended as may be necessary in carrying out the provisions of this act. selectmen to be tagious disease animals. neglect. notice Penalty for select- 1885, 148, § 1. 174. Whoever has knowledge of the existence of a Aldermen or contagious disease among any species of domestic animals notified of conin this state, whether such knowledge is obtained by in domestic examination or otherwise, shall forthwith give thereof to the board of aldermen of the city or the men of the town where such diseased animals are kept, and for failure so to do shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in jail not exceeding one year. selectmen to 175. The board of aldermen of a city or the selectmen Aldermen or of a town having received notice of a contagious disease notify cattle among domestic animals in their city or town, shall forth- 1885, 148, § 2. with inform the board of cattle commissioners of the existence of such contagious disease. commissioners. 176. The cattle commissioners, in the necessary dis- Commissioners charge of their duties, may administer oaths. MEDICAL SOCIETIES; DEGREES OR DIPLOMAS. may administer ties not to con unless author 177. No corporation organized for medical purposes Medical socieunder the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifteen fer degrees of the Public Statutes shall confer degrees, or issue di- ized by legislaplomas or certificates conferring or purporting to confer 1883, 268, § 1. degrees, unless specially authorized by the legislature so to do. ture. lation of act. 1883, 268, § 2. 178. An officer, agent or servant of any corporation Penalty for viomentioned in section one, or any other person conferring degrees, or signing, issuing or authorizing the signing or issuing of any diploma or certificate purporting to confer any degree of medicine or surgery, contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be punished by fine of not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars. COLOR-BLINDNESS AND DEFECTIVE SIGHT. ployees to be 179. No railroad corporation shall employ or keep in Railroad emits employment, in a position which requires the person examined relaemployed therein to distinguish form or color signals, any blindness and tive to color defective sight. 112, § 179. 1883, 125. Public Statutes, person, unless he has been examined for color-blindness or other defective sight by some competent person employed by the corporation and has received a certificate that he is not disqualified for such position by color-blindness or other defective sight. A railroad corporation shall forfeit one hundred dollars for each violation of the provisions of this section. Physiology and hygiene to be ing special in- INSTRUCTION IN PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE; ALCOHOL, STIMULANTS AND NARCOTICS. 180. Physiology and hygiene, which, in both divisions taught in public of the subject, shall include special instruction as to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics on the human system, shall be taught as a regular branch of study to all pupils in all schools supported wholly or in part by public money, except special schools maintained solely for instruction in particular branches, such as drawing, mechanics, art, and like studies. All acts or parts of acts relating to the qualifications of teachers in the public schools shall apply to the branch of study prescribed in this act. GENERAL LAWS RELATIVE TO ADULTERATION. FOOD AND DRUGS. prohibited. 1. No person shall, within this Commonwealth, man- Adulteration ufacture for sale, offer for sale, or sell any drug or article 1882, 263, § 1. of food which is adulterated within the meaning of this act. 2. The term "" drug" as used in this act shall include Definition of terms " drug all medicines for internal or external use, antiseptics, and "food. 1882, 263, § 2. disinfectants and cosmetics. The term "food" as used herein shall include confectionery, condiments and all articles used for food or drink by man. 3. An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of this act,— adulterated. may be sold as variation is (a.) In the case of drugs,- (1.) If, when sold under Drugs, how or by a name recognized in the United States Pharma- 1882, 263, § 3. copoeia, it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down therein, unless the order calls for officinal drugs an article inferior to such standard, or unless such differ- called for, or as ence is made known or so appears to the purchaser at the time of such sale; (2.) If, when sold under or by a name not recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia but which is found in some other pharmacopoeia, or other standard work on materia medica, it differs materially from the standard of strength, quality or purity laid down 69 made known to 1884, 289, § 7. the purchaser. Food, how adulterated. in such work; (3.) If its strength or purity falls below the professed standard under which it is sold: (b.) In the case of food, —(1.) If any substance or substances have been mixed with it so as to reduce, or lower, or injuriously affect its quality or strength; (2.) If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it; (3.) If any valuable constituent has been wholly or in part abstracted from it; (4.) If it is an imitation of, or is sold under the name of, another article; (5.) If it consists wholly or in part of a diseased, decomposed, putrid or rotten animal or vegetable substance, whether manufactured or not, or, in the case of milk, if it is the produce of a diseased animal; (6.) If. it is colored, coated, polished or powdered, whereby damage is concealed, or if it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is; (7.) If it contains any added poisonous ingredient, or any ingredient which may render it injurious to the health of a person consuming it. The provisions of this act shall not apply to mixto labelled com- tures or compounds recognized as ordinary articles of food or drinks, provided that the same are not injurious to health, and are distinctly labelled as mixtures or comNo prosecution pounds. And no prosecutions shall at any time be maintive to drugs, if tained under said act concerning any drug the standard of strength or purity whereof has been raised since the issue of the last edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia, Pharmacopoeia unless and until such change of standard has been pubchange has been lished throughout the Commonwealth. Provisions of act not to apply pounds or mix tures when not injurious to health. to be made rela standard of same has been raised since the issue of the last edition of the until such published. 1884, 289, § 5. State board shall tions and may tors, analysts and chemists. 1882, 263, § 5. 4. 5. The state board of health shall take cognizance of the make investiga- interests of the public health relating to the sale of drugs appoint inspec- and food and the adulteration of the same, and shall make all necessary investigations and inquiries in reference thereto, and for these purposes may appoint inspectors, analysts and chemists, who shall be subject to its supervision and removal. The board shall make regula Within thirty days after the passage of this act the said tions as to col- board shall adopt such measures as it may deem necessary lecting and |