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not to exceed $50.00 for expense of himself and witness in the cases against Dr. Roberts and Dr. McClelland.

Dr. C. A. Thomas of Martinsburg having applied for a certificate to practice under the reciprocity regulations of the Board, claiming that he had been in actual practice in Maryland for a year, and the Board having a letter from the president of the Maryland Board of Examiners setting forth that his diploma was not registered until January, 1913, the Board unanimously adopted the following resolution: Resolved: That Dr. C. A. Thomas of Martinsburg be denied a certificate under our reciprocity regulations, on the ground that he has not practised in Maryland for a year, as our regulations require.

It was resolved that President Golden, Secretary Jepson and Dr. Robins be appointed a committee to visit the state institutions with his excellency, Governor Hatfield, and with authority to establish a Public Hygienic Laboratory at such place as they may determine.

On motion of Dr. Robins it was resolved, that before confirming the appointment of county health officers, the nominations shall receive the endorsement of that member of the Board living nearest to the place of residence of the appointee.

A request having been received that the Board establish reciprocal regulations with the Osteopathic Board of Examiners of Pennsylvania, it was resolved that this Board will enter into reciprocal relations with the Osteopathic Board of Pennsylvania, provided that the requirements in Pennsylvania for entering into osteopathic practice are found to be equal to those of West Virginia.

The salary of the secretary of the board, on motion, was fixed at $3,000, and he was authorized to employ a stenographer whose salary was not to exceed $50.00 per month. The secretary was empowered to spend such amount as is necessary to fully equip his office. The following resolution offered by the secretary was adopted; WHEREAS, the amendments to the Health Law provide that, "It shall be the duty of every county and municipal health officer to meet with the State Board of Health, or its representative at least once a year, due notice having been given, at such time and place as said Board of Health may designate, to attend a School of Instruction for the purpose of familiarizing such county and municipal health officers with their duties in the interest of public health," therefore,

RESOLVED: That the local health officers of the state be called together at the next two meetings of the Board for the purpose of instruction, the state to be divided into two sections, and that the Heal officers be invited according to convenience of meeting place.

On motion of Dr. Robins, the President of the Board was appointed to prepare a program for the Parkersburg School of Instruction to be held in November.

The hotel inspector, Mr. A. D. Sees, appeared before the Board, explained the duties of his office, and assured the Board that he is actively engaged in his work, as pointed out in the new law enacted by the last legislature. On motion of Dr. Brandebury, Mr. Sees was instructed to inquire into the condition of hotel premises, buildings, cul

change of bed-linen, towels in common wash rooms, contagious diseases among employees, protection against flies, etc.

A communication was read from the Western Maryland Railroad Co., asking for the Board's endorsement of their water supply. The secretary was authorized to issue a certificate of such endorsement for railroad companies when he has satisfactory evidence that a proper analysis has been made by a competent authority.

After auditing accounts of the members, the Board adjourned.

Parkersburg, November 29th, 1913. After holding a School of Instruction on the 28th inst., particulars of which will be found on another page, the Board of Health convened in executive session with President Golden in the chair. Other members present were Drs. Barbee, Brandebury, Davidson, Jepson, Lind, Pyle, Robins, Rymer, Rusmisell and Shipper. After the reading and approval of the minutes of the last meeting, the secretary reported that a letter had been received from the Dean of Bennett Medical College, Chicago, (from which, it was represented at a former meeting, that J. Q. Godbey had been graduated) stating that said Godbey is not a graduate of that institution, having left it before completing the required course. Since Dr. Godbey, on the strength of his alleged graduation, was in April, 1913, granted a certificate to practise medicine in this state, it was, in view of the misrepresentation made.

Resolved: That the action of the Board in granting J. Q. Godbey a certificate to practise medicine (which certificate has not been delivered) is hereby rescinded, and the secretary is instructed to correct the record on account of misrepresentations made by J. Q. Godbey as to graduation, claiming that he was a graduate when he had failed to complete the course at Bennett Medical College.

Resolved, That the secretary notify Dr. Godbey of this action of the Board, and also notify him that he must cease to practice medicine in the state.

Attorney Dillon, of Fayette County, appeared before the Board and filed charges against Dr. A. A. Wingrove, of Scarbro, setting forth that he was guilty of dishonorable conduct in various ways. Dr. Wingrove being present, answered that he had not had sufficient time in which to prepare his defense. Thereupon the papers were filed before the Board and the trial of the case postponed until the next meeting of the Board.

Dr. Robins offered the following resolution which was adopted: Resolved: That all applicants for license to practice medicine in this state be required to file with the secretary their certificates of high school graduation in a high school giving a four years course, or evidence of its equivalent, and that the secretary be instructed to investigate doubtful cases, asking the aid, when necessary, of the committee on classification and grades at the West Virginia University. Each applicant shall be notified of this resolution when his application is received.

Dr. Brandebury offered the following resolution which was adopted:

ulations from states requiring one or more years of actual practice, shall not be admitted to licensure in this state unless they shall have had a similar period of practice in the state in which they hold a license.

Dr. Brandebury, Chairman of the Committee, reported the following rules and regulations for hotel inspection, which were on motion adopted:

Regulation No. 1. All doors, windows, back porches where same exist, air passages or openings in hotels and restaurants, lunch wagons or lunch counters in this state, shall be properly screened from the first day of April to the 15th day of November in each year.

Regulation No. 2. All cooked or prepared food on display shall be kept covered at all times by glass or 16 mesh screen covers, or kept in glass or finely screened cases to prevent contamination by handling or flies.

Regulation No. 3. All garbage or other matter discarded from kitchens shall be kept in metallic garbage cans which shall be kept clean and always effectively covered to prevent flies from getting into the cans.

Regulation No. 4. It shall be the duty of every person or persons conducting a hotel, restaurant, eating-house, or lunch wagon, to keep the premises clean and sanitary and all floors scrubbed sufficiently often to keep them in sanitary condition, and they shall exterminate all ants, roaches and other insects, and keep premises free from same. They shall also keep all food where rats and mice cannot get to it.

Regulation No. 5. All water closets shall be disinfected each week or more frequently if necessary, to prevent all obnoxious odors or effluvia arising therefrom. (A simple and inexpensive solution can be prepared by adding one pound of copperas to each gallon of water, to be used freely in sinks, water-closets and vaults.)

Regulation No. 6. Serving tables, trucks, trays, boxes, buckets, knives, saws, cleavers and all other utensils and machinery used in handling, moving, cutting, chopping, mixing or serving food are required to be sterilized through cleansing daily by boiling water or steam, and the clothing and hands of cooks, stewards and waiters must be clean and sanitary.

Regulation No. 7. No person, firm or corporation engaged in conducting an hotel or restaurant, shall knowingly have in their employ any person who has an infectious, contagious or communicable disease.

At the suggestion of Hotel Inspector A. A. Sees, the following was adopted as a form of application for Hotel Inspection:

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The undersigned applicant respectfully asks for inspection and certificate thereof to engage in the business of conducting a

at No.

of

Street, in the

county, West Virginia, pursuant to and under Sec. 6 of Chapter 8 of the Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia, session 1913.

Inspector Sees presented his quarterly financial statement as follows:

September 30, 1913.

To the State Board of Health of West Virginia,

I herewith submit the following report of collections and contingent and travelling expenses for the quarter ending September 30, 1913. July 31st collections

August 31st collections

September 30th, collections

TOTAL

July 31st, R. R. fare and hotel accommodations.
Aug. 31st, R. R. fare and hotel accommodations..
Sept. 30th, R. R. fare and hotel accommodations...

TOTAL

$ 147.25

459.00
267.50

.$ 873.75

$ 26.25

118.20

69.40

$213.85

A. D. SEES.

Respectfully submitted,
(Signed)

The secretary reported that the committee appointed at a previous meeting, accompanied by His Excellency Governor Hatfield, visited Morgantown on November 6th, 1913, held a conference with the com mittee representing the University authorities, inspected the laboratories of the university, and concluded an arrangement whereby the Hygienic Laboratory under the control of the Board was established at the University. The contract entered into will be found on another page in connection with the work of the laboratory.

Dr. John N. Simpson, director of the Hygienic Laboratory, was authorized to purchase a typewriting machine if he fail to receive one through the Board of Public Works. The secretary and Dr. Simpson were appointed to draft rules for the government of the Laboratory.

The president and secretary of the Board were, on motion, authorized to draft rules and regulations making effective the law forbidding the use of the common drinking cup, which law reads as follows:

An Act to regulate the use of common drinking cup and to prevent the communication of infectious diseases.

(Passed February 19, 1913. In effect ninety days from passage. Approved by the Governor February 22, 1913.)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

Sec. 1. That the use of the common drinking cup, an undoubted source of communication of infectious diseases, is hereby prohibited in all public places, upon all railroad trains and boats carrying passengers, in all public buildings of every description, and at public drinking springs and fountains within this state. The state board of health shall have full authority to establish rules and regulations to make this prohibition effective, as in their judgment may seem wise and proper.

Sec. 2. All persons, firms or corporations failing to observe the provisions of this act, or the rules and regulations of the state board

demeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each offense.

Sec. 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Common Drinking Cup.

The following rule was presented and unamiously adopted:

Common carriers, hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, schools, public buildings, clubs, theaters, factories, stores, and all other places where people eat and drink or congregate, shall not provide any drinking cup, glass or other vessel for common use in drinking; provided, that this regulation shall not be held to preclude the use of a drinking cup, glasses or other vessels which are thoroughly cleansed by washing in hot water after use by each individual,, nor shall it be held to preclude the use of sanitary devices for common use, such as the bubbling fountain for schools, and cups made of paper or other material intended for individual use.

Dr. Lind, chairman of committee on Reportable Diseases and Quarantine, presented a list of diseases that should be reported to the county health officer, which being revised by the president and secretary, is as follows: Anthrax, cerebro-spinal menigitis, chicken-pox, cholera (Asiatic), diphtheria croup, (membranous), glanders, hookworm disease, leprosy, measles, measles (German), pellagra, plague (bubonic), polomyelitis, rabies, scarlet fever, scarlatina, scarlet rash, small-pox, trachoma, tuberculosis (specify form), typhoid fever, whooping cough, yellow fever. The diseases in italics are quarantinable.

The secretary reported that on November 11th, and 12th, an examination of applicants was conducted by him with the assistance of the late W. H. Sharp, at the Hotel Chancellor, Parkersburg in the absence from the city of Dr. W. J. Davidson, of the Board. The gradings from this examination were presented, and after examination it was found that the following applicants made the required grade, and the secretary was instructed to issue certificates to them:

Walter W. Point, Jr.
V. L. Weatherby,

George William Abersold
J. Benbow Whittington,
Geo. Vane Scott,

Albert Wm. Crews,

Clement Milton Arnold,
Merrill M. Mastin,
James Oscar Hicks,
John Edwin Robertson,
Alexander Marion Moore,
James Asmond Hereford,
Wm. Frank Montgomery,
Ulysses Simpson Grant Jones,
William D. Price,

Huntington, W. Va.
Filbert, W. Va.
Jenness, Pa.

Winston-Salem, N. C.

Weirton, W. Va.

.Thurmond, W. Va.

Standard, W. Va.
Coketon, W. Va.

. Huntington, W. Va.
.Huntington, W. Va.
Bramwell, W. Va.
Rankin, Pa.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Petersburg, Va.
Salisbury, N. C.

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