eyes and attempting to correct any error in refraction by the use of glasses. In children in which an error of refraction has been detected by the medical inspector, and a note sent to the parents calling their attention to the child's eyes, the parents, believing the advertisements of these charlatans, seek their advice, and, as a result, the children are, in some instances, in a worse condition than before. The same remarks should be applied to osteopaths, Christian scientists and faith curists. This condition is quite unique. No one, individually, is anxious to secure the necessary evidence and bring it before the courts, and the law does not designate anyone to secure evidence to convict these persons of violating the law and rid the community of these dangerous classes, but, when evidence is presented, the county prosecutor is required to bring the offender before the court. This society, the State Medical Society or county medical societies, should appoint committees to secure evidence and place it in the hands of the prosecutor so as to prevent incompetent and unauthorized persons from practicing any one or all branches of medicine. This work has not been carried The

on without some objections and obstacles to be overcome. objections can be attributed to two causes-first, they come from a class of people that object, on general principles, to this work or any other that is being done; second, from a class that has been misinformed; but these persons have been invited to be present at the school building and see the work. After the work has been explained, and they have seen it, they become its best supporters and appreciate its value.

Following is the program of the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the association, which will be held in the Laurel House, Lakewood, December 6th and 7th, 1901.

1. Announcements.

FIRST SESSION.

Friday, December 6th, 1901, 3:30 P. M.

2. Reports of Committees.

3. Round Table: Subject, The Legal and Sanitary Status of Garbage Disposal in New Jersey.

a. The Legal Status. Edwin B. Goodell, Esq., Attorney of the Board of Health, Montclair.

b. The Sanitary Status. M. N. Baker, Upper Montclair.

Discussion opened by Henry Mitchell, M.D., Secretary State Board of
Health.

EVENING SESSION.

Friday, December 6th, at 8 P. M.

4. Prayer. Rev. R. H. McClellan, Lakewood.

5. President's Address. Public Water-Supply in New Jersey. Herbert B. Baldwin, President of the Association, Newark.

6. The Sanitary Aspect of the Reclamation of Meadow Lands.

Olin H. Landreth, Union College, New York.

Professor

7. Compulsory School Attendance in its Relation to the Public Health. Professor A. B. Poland, Superintendent Public Schools, Newark.

THIRD SESSION.

Saturday, December 7th, 9 A. M.

8. Progress in Veterinary Medicine in its Relation to Hygiene. Dr. William Herbert Lowe, President Veterinary Association of Paterson.

9. Round Table: Subject, Small-Pox. Conducted by John L. Leal, M.D.,

Paterson.

(1) Diagnosis. Dr. E. E. Worl, Newark.

(2) Vaccination. Dr. William K. Newton, Paterson.

(3) Isolation. Dr. Frank Agnew, Paterson.

(4) Disinfection. Mr. M. O. Leighton, Montclair.

(5) Local Routine. Mr. D. D. Chandler, Newark.

(6) State Routine. Dr. A. C. Hunt, State Board of Health.

10. Miscellaneous Business.

11. Report of Chairman Executive Council.

12. Election of Officers.

13. Adjournment.

OFFICERS, 1901.

President, Herbert B. Baldwin, Newark; First Vice President, H. Brewster Willis, New Brunswick; Second Vice President, John L. Leal, M.D., Paterson; Third Vice President, M. N. Baker, C.E., Upper Montclair; Secretary, James A. Exton, M.D., Arlington; Treasurer, George P. Olcott, C.E., East Orange; Chairman Executive Council, Norton L. Wilson, M.D., Elizabeth.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

[With above Officers.]

Henry C. Greene, Esq., Arlington; H. R. Baldwin, M.D., LL.D., New Brunswick; Henry B. Francis, Sanitary Inspector, Camden; D. E. English, M.D., Millburn; William J. Harrison, Esq., Lakewood; M. O. Leighton, Sanitary Inspector, Montclair; W. H. Shipps, M.D., Bordentown; Henry S. Scull, Esq., Atlantic City; Elias J. Marsh, M.D., Paterson; Professor Geo. W. Rockefellow, Plainfield; T. Frank Appelby, Esq., Asbury Park; M. R. Sherrerd, C.E., Newark; A. Clark Hunt, M.D., Metuchen; R. H. Parsons, M.D., Mount Holly.

Honorary Members of Council.-Ex-Presidents C. F. Brackett, M.D., LL.D.; Professor Albert R. Leeds, Ph.D.; Professor J. M. Green, Ph. D.; W. K. Newton, M.D.; Henry Mitchell, M.D.; D. Benjamin, M.D.; Geo. P. Olcott, C.E.; E. L. B. Godfrey, M.D.; C. Phillips Bassett, C.E.; Professor Addison B. Poland, Ph.D.; David C. English, M.D.; Shippen Wallace, Ph.D.; James Owen, C.E.; Vernon L. Davey, Ph.D.; Daniel Strock, M.D.

COMMITTEES.

Publication Committee.-David C. English, M.D., Chairman, New Brunswick; Henry Mitchell, M.D., Asbury Park; James A. Exton, M.D., Arlington.

Committee on Uniform Sanitary and Vital Statistics.-M. N. Baker, C.E., Chairman, Upper Montclair; Henry Mitchell, M.D., Asbury Park; E. J. Marsh, M.D., Paterson.

Committee on Legislation.-H. Brewster Willis, Chairman, New Brunswick; James Owen, C.E., Montclair; George B. Olcott, C.E., East Orange; H. S. Scull, Atlantic City; James F. Connelly, Newark.

Digest of Legal Decisions.

COMPILED BY MR. TAYLOR, ESQ.

POWERS OF BOARDS OF HEALTH.-1886.

The powers conferred by the Legislature upon boards of health of this State are to be employed to restrain and suppress public nuisances, not to legalize their creation or continuance. Their methods are designed to be auxiliary to the ordinary modes of public protection. Garrett v. State, 20 Vr. 94, 683.

ANIMALS-INFECTIOUS DISEASES- -COMMON NUISANCES.-1888.

The "Supplement to an act entitled 'An act to establish a State Board of Health,' approved March 9th, 1877," which supplement was approved March 12th, 1880 (Pamph. L., p. 322), makes animals with contagious or infectious diseases common nuisances, and authorizes their destruction by certain officials under certain conditions. The "Supplement to an act entitled 'An act to prevent the spread of glanders in horses,' approved March 31st, 1864," which supplement was approved March 12th, 1884 (Rev. Sup., p. 8), makes horses affected by glanders common nuisances, and authorizes their destruction by certain officers. Held, (1) these acts, so far as they relate to glanders in horses, are within the police powers of the State; (2) they are not within the prohibition of the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution, because, although they authorize the abatement of such nuisances in advance of a judicial adjudication of the fact of nuisance, yet they do not make the determination of the officials as to that fact conclusive, and only permit their acts, in abating the nuisance, to be justified by proof of the actual existence of such nuisance; (3) the conditions under which such officials may act, under the act of 1880, are mere limitations of their power for the benefit of the

property-owner, and their adjudication that such conditions exist will not protect them unless the existence of the common nuisance is shown. Newark, &c., Horse Railway Co. v. Hunt, 21 Vr. 308.

COUNTY BOARDS OF HEALTH-ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES.-1890.

The ninth section of the "Act concerning county boards established for the protection of the public health and the registration of vital facts and statistics in counties of this state" (Rev. Sup., p. 344), was not intended to clothe county boards of health with the functions of the attorney general in cases of public nuisance, but to authorize them to secure for individuals that protection which equity would afford to those persons upon their own suit. Board of Health, &c., v. New York Horse Manure Co., 2 Dick. 1.

IMPLIED POWERS OF BOARDS OF HEALTH.-1892.

The board of health of the city of Newark passed a resolution granting a permit to the Newark Sanitary and Manufacturing Company to carry on the business of night scavengering, and designating certain lands of the sanitary company within the city limits as the place for the deposit, and final disposition by manufacture, of the night-soil. The prosecutors attack the legality of this resolution upon the ground that it will injure them specially by causing a diminution of the value of their real estate. Held, (1) that the prosecutors were not injured by so much of said resolution as concerned the permit for night scavengering; (2) that under the act establishing boards of health (Pamph. L. 1887, p. 80), the regulations required to be passed by ordinance were such as prescribed general rules with respect to the several matters entrusted to these boards, and that a particular permit authorizing the doing of that which had already been authorized by ordinance might be granted by simple resolution; (3) that the power to designate a place for the deposit of night soil, although not given to boards of health in express terms, is necessarily incident to the general jurisdiction of such bodies over cesspools and the removal of their contents; (4) where a court of law is asked to annul the otherwise lawful action of a municipal body upon