The following will serve to illustrate : "Abscess." Of what part? "Accident." What kind? 66 Amputation." Of what, and what for? 66 Asphyxia," or "Suffocation." From what cause? "Bowel Complaint." Was it Diarrhea, Dysentery, or what disease? "Brain Disease." What kind? "Convulsions." Of what kind? From what cause? Deaths from "Drowning," "Poison," "Injuries," "Gunshot," etc., should state whether accidental, suicidal or homicidal. MARRIAGE REPORTS. Marriage return blanks are not so complicated and less liable to be incorrect. Care need only be taken to have the same number of grooms and brides, both in grouped ages and nationality. County health officers shall supply the Clerk of their respective counties with marriage return blanks, and when said County Clerk issues a marriage license, he shall deliver to the party procuring such license a blank marriage return, and when such return shall have been filled out and returned to the County Clerk he shall deliver it to the Secretary of the County Board of Health. All persons authorized to solemnize matrimony shall fill out properly a return of marriage of each marriage solmenized by them, and return the same with the license and certificate to the County Clerk. RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT -OF STATION AGENTS AND BAGGAGEMEN ---IN RECEIVING AND TRANSPORTING DEAD BODIES. RULE 1. The trasportation of bodies of persons who have died from small-pox, Asiatic cholera, typhus or yellow fever is strictly forbidden. RULE 2. From November 15 to March 1 all other dead bodies may be transported without restriction, except those who died of diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, erysipelas, and measles, which must be wrapped in a sheet thoroughly saturated with a solution of chloride of zinc (1⁄2 pound chloride of zinc to a gallon of water), or one ounce of corrosive sublimate to a gallon of water, and encased in an anti-septic interment sack, hermetically sealed, and placed in a coffin which must be inclosed in a tight wooden box. The coffin must be surrounded by sawdust, saturated with a solution of chlorde of zine, or corrosive sublimate, the same as above. RULE 3. Froin March 1 to November 15, all bodies not having died from diseases specified in Rules 1 and 2 presented for transportation, must, in addition to being placed in a coffin, be inclosed in an encasing sack, hermetically sealed. RULE 4. No person or article which has been exposed to the contagion can accompany the body. RULE 5. Every dead body must be accomponied by a physician's certificate of death, and a certificate from the shipping undertaker that the body has been prepared for transportation in accordance with the rules of the Indiana State Board of Health. FORMS OF CERTIFICATES REQUIRED BY THE BOARD. PHYSICIAN'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH. I hereby certify to the best of my knowledge and belief that .......aged................years..............months......days, died of ........................... ...... M. D. Residing in .Co., Indiana. ....188.... I hereby certify that the body of the person named in the foregoing physician's certificate has been prepared by me for transportation in accordance with the rules of the State Board of Health. Undertaker. Residing in. County, Indiana. In the enforcement of these rules it must be understood that the intention is that no dead body shall be received which may be the means of spreading any contagious or infectious disease. Therefore, in receiving any dead body which has been shipped from within either Illinois, Kentucky or Michigan, the rules of those State Boards of Health must be observed. Ohio having no State Board of Health the rules of this Board will govern all cases from said State. All dead bodies presented by connecting lines and coming from beyond the States mentioned need only to be accompanied by a physician's certificate, clearly setting forth that the disease of which the person died was not of a contagious or infectious character. The rules and regulations made by the State Board of Health and adopted by the various local Boards in accordance with powers given by act creating State and local Boards of Health, etc., are laws to be obeyed by every individual in the State. All prosecutions for violations of the statute law, or the rules of local Boards of Health, should be instituted by the several prosecuting attorneys of this State, upon information of such local Boards. The above rules and regulations are hereby adopted, and all rules and regulations heretofore promulgated by circular, card or pamphlets, or through newspaper publications, in conflict with the foregoing, are hereby revoked. By order of the Indiana State Board of Health. S. R. SEAWRIGHT, M. D., C. N. METCALF, M. D., Secretary and Executive Officer. November 5, 1885. President. SANITARY AUTHORITIES AND ASSOCIATIONS. The following comprises a list of American boards of health and sanitary associations, together with the names and addresses of their executive officers. Thirty-two States have organized a board of health, and no State has ever taken a backward step and repealed the law which created one. Within the year the Legislature of Ohio passed a law establishing a board of health in that State. This Board has organized by electing officers, and is now in full operation. Within the year the National Board of Health has been obliged to close its doors and drop out of existence through the failure of Congress to appropriate funds to carry on the work of the department. It is generally understood that this result was brought about by those interested in the success of the United States Marine Hospital service: NATIONAL BOARDS OF HEALTH. United States Marine Hospital Service: Dr. John B. Hamilton, Surgeon General, Washington, D. C. American Public Health Association: Dr. Irving A. Watson, Secretary, Concord, N. H. Sanitary Council of the Mississippi Valley: Dr. John H. Rauch, Secretary, Springfield, Ill. National Conference of State Boards of Health: C. P. Conn, Secretary, Concord, N. H. STATE BOARDS OF HEALTH AND SECRETARIES. STATE. SECRETARIES. RESIDENCE. Alabama. Arkansas. California Connecticut. Georgia Illinois. Indiana Iowa. Maryland. Massachusetts. Michigan. Mississippi New Hampshire. Pennsylvania. West Virginia. Jerome Cochran Charles N. Metcalf Montgomery. Lansing. Nashville. CONVENTION OF COUNTY HEALTH OFFICERS. Acting upon the belief that much good might be accomplished by a convention of town, city and county health officers, a call was issued for such a convention, which was held in the city of Indianapolis, February 18, 1886. As will be seen by the following proceedings, quite a good attendance was secured. Many others would have attended had they not been prevented by professional duties; others could not attend because of the distance necessary to be traveled and the expense involved. A commendable zeal and interest in their work characterized those present. It was fully demonstrated that in all 3 Bd. of H. |