To

No

M. D., Health Officer.

SMALLPOX HOSPITAL,
Washington, D. C.,

190-.

SIR: The following is a report of admissions to the hospital on the above date:

To

Health Officer.

SMALLPOX HOSPITAL,

Washington, D. C., —— 190-.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of patients in the hospital at this date,

:

SIR: I have the honor to make application for the following-named articles for the Smallpox Hospital:

APPENDIX E.

STATUS OF LEGISLATION RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AT THE CLOSE OF THE FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.

A bill for preventing the adulteration, misbranding, and imitation of foods, beverages, candies, drugs, and condiments in the District of Columbia and the Territories, and for regulating interstate traffic therein, and for other purposes. S. 2050, S. 2222, and S. 3618; referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. H. R. 2561 and H. R. 6246; referred to Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. H. R. 9677; referred to Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and reported back with amendments (see H. R. Report 1426).

A bill for the establishment of a food bureau in the Department of Agriculture, and for preventing the adulteration and misbranding of foods in the District of Columbia and the Territories, and for regulating interstate commerce therein, and for other purposes. H. R. 4618; referred to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

A bill to prevent the manufacture of adulterated foods. S. 2426; referred to the Committee on Manufactures and reported back with amendments (see S. Report 516).

A bill for the further prevention of cruelty to animals in the District of Columbia. S. 34; referred to the Committee on the District

of Columbia.

A bill to prevent cruelty to certain animals in the District of Columbia. S. 2098; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. A bill to restore medical freedom to the people of the District of Columbia. H. R. 1113; referred to the Committee on the District

of Columbia.

A bill for a municipal hospital for the District of Columbia. S. 108; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. H. R. 7651; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

A bill for the transformation of the inner basin of the Potomac flats into a public bathing pool. S. 1027; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and reported back with amendments (see S. Report 700).

A bill authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to enter into a contract for the collection and disposal of garbage and dead animals in said District. S. 2638; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and reported back (see S. Report 338). Indefinitely postponed. H. R. 7018; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

A bill prohibiting bone or fertilizing factories to be operated in the District of Columbia. S. 3518; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. H. R. 8696; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

A bill creating a commission for the condemnation of insanitary buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. S. 3120; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. H. R. 8305; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

A bill for the regulation of scientific experiments upon human beings in the District of Columbia. S. 3424; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

A bill to regulate the practice of veterinary medicine in the District of Columbia. H. R. 9148; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

A bill to amend an act entitled "An act to regulate in the District of Columbia the disposal of certain refuse, and for other purposes, approved January 25, 1898. S. 3937; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and reported back (see S. Report 971). H. R. 10231; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. A bill to regulate the practice of homeopathic pharmacy in the District of Columbia. S. 4425; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and reported back (see S. Report 1483). H. R. 10805; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

A bill to invest the Washington Humane Society with the care, control, and management of the pound in and for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. S. 4232; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

A bill relating to the disposal of dead bodies in the District of Columbia. S. 4593; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

A bill to regulate the production and sale of milk and cream in and for the District of Columbia. S. 4804; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and reported back with amendments (see S. Report 1665).

A bill to require cases of typhoid fever occurring in the District of Columbia to be reported to the health department of said District. S. 4803; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia.

A bill to permit certain burials of the dead in the lands of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. S. 3481; referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia, and reported back (see S. Report 1382). Consideration objected to in Senate.

APPENDIX F.

LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

The following laws and regulations have, in the issue of this report, been compared with the official copies thereof. Wherever, therefore, a discrepancy exists between them and between the corresponding laws and regulations as they have appeared in previous reports, the text below may be accepted as correct:

ACTS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AFFECTING THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

CHAP. CVIII.—-AN ACT prescribing the duties of certain officers for the District of Columbia and fixing their compensation.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the coroner to hold an inquest over any person found dead in the District of Columbia, when the manner and cause of death shall not be already known as accidental or in the course of nature. No coroner's jury shall receive any fee or compensation for services as such, and said coroner is hereby authorized and empowered to issue his certificate to the auditor for the payment of such expenses as may be necessary for the interment of any person over whom he has held an inquest and whose body is not claimed by friends or relatives: Provided, That the amount of such expenses shall not exceed the sum of ten dollars. He shall make a monthly report to the board of health of the number of inquests held by him during the month last past before said report, with a full description, as far as may be, of the age and sex of persons, color and nationality, the cause and mode of their death, and such other particulars as may be necessary to their identification, in case of strangers and unknown persons. He shall also, immediately after holding any inquest, deposit in some bank in the city of Washington, subject to the order of the governor, all moneys and all other property and other effects with the property clerk of the police department which shall be found upon the person of those over whom he shall hold an inquest, as herein before provided. He shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, and give bond, to be approved by the governor, in the sum of five thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties.

EXCERPTS FROM WEBB'S DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF THE CORPORATION OF WASHINGTON RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH.

SEC. 1 (page 5). It is not lawful for butchers or other persons to keep beef cattle or other animals intended for slaughter within seventy-five feet of any dwelling house, without the consent of both the occupant and owner of said dwelling; and it shall be the duty of the police officers to notify persons so offending to immediately remove such animals, and if the person or persons so notified shall refuse or neglect to obey within twenty-four hours thereafter, they shall be subject to a fine of five dollars, and a fine of twenty dollars for each day the said cattle are suffered to remain, and any police officer refusing or willfully neglecting to perform the duty prescribed shall be punished by a fine of five dollars, and shall be dismissed from office, said fines to be collected and applied as other fines under this corporation. SEC. 2 (page 44). It shall be unlawful for any person to store, put, or place bones which shall have been purchased or bartered, in any house, storeroom, stable, build

ing, or place, within two hundred feet of any dwelling house, other than the dwelling house of the person storing such bones, under a penalty of five dollars for each and every day that the same shall be stored, put, or placed, as aforesaid; and it shall be unlawful for any person, or persons, to store old rags which shall have been purchased or bartered, in any house, storeroom, stable, building, or place, within fifty feet of any dwelling house, other than the dwelling house of the person storing such rags, and the entire stock of old rags, so collected and stored, shall be removed from the premises, or shipped at least once in every fifteen days; and any person or persons storing old rags, or refusing or neglecting to remove the same in accordance with these provisions, shall be liable to a fine of five dollars for every day that they shall so offend.

SEC. 1. (page 50). It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to erect any whitesmith or blacksmith shop within thirty feet of any dwelling house inside of the limits of the corporation, or within that distance of any dwelling house to extend any whitesmith or blacksmith shop now erected, under a penalty of not less than two nor more than five dollars for every day such erection or extension shall remain after notice shall be given by the mayor for the removal thereof, to be collected and applied as other fines.

SECS. 1 and 2 (pages 119 and 120). It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to keep, provide for, or maintain within the limits of the city of Washington a cow yard, pen, or stable for dairy or other purposes, nearer than two hundred feet to any dwelling house other than the dwelling house of the owner or keeper of such yard, pen, or stable, under a penalty of not less than one nor more than five dollars for each day's offense so continued; to be prosecuted and recovered as other fines and penalties due the corporation are prosecuted and recovered: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall apply to persons who keep but two cows for their own immediate use; and this section shall be so construed as to permit the selling of milk by persons who keep one or two cows.

SEC. 2. The owner or keeper of any cow yard, pen, or stable, or other place where cows are kept, within the limits of the city of Washington, shall daily remove the filth from and keep clean such yard, pen, stable, or other place, under a penalty of not less than one nor more than five dollars for each and every offense, to be recovered as other fines are.

SEC. 8 (page 214). It shall be the duty of each and every person occupying a dwelling house or store, or any other kind of building, to have the paved footwalk and gutter in front of his, her, or their premises cleaned daily from the first of May to the first of December, by collecting the dirt from such gutter into piles, to be removed under the direction of the commissioners of improvements so soon as possible after it has been collected; and any person or persons who shall fail or refuse to have the paved footwalk or gutter in front of his, her, or their premises cleaned as hereinbefore provided shall be subject to a fine of not more than five nor less than one dollar for each and every offense.

SEC. 9 (page 214). If any person or persons shall cast, place, or lay, or cause to be cast, placed, or laid any rubbish, oyster shells, shavings, or offal, or refuse substance of any kind whatsoever of his, her, or their trade, occupation, or business; or any coal, firewood, ashes, barrels, hogsheads, or casks of any kind; boxes, foul water, dye water, or offal from soap and candle or other manufactories; filth, stable manure, or any offensive substance or obstruction in any street, avenue, open space, public reservation, alley, or open lot, or so that the same may run into any improved street, avenue, public reservation, alley, open space, or open lot, or in the gutters of any such street, avenue, public reservation, open space, or open lot, or on any pavement, and shall not remove the same on the day on which the same shall have been so placed as aforesaid-every person so offending or directing or ordering the same to be done shall forfeit and pay not less than one nor more than five dollars, and the further sum of five dollars for each and every day the same shall be suffered to remain, except the article of firewood, which may remain forty-eight hours and no longer on such street or avenue, not including the pavement thereof: Provided, That it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons engaged in erecting or repairing a building to occupy with the materials used in making such building or repairing the inside half of the breadth of the footway and one-third part of the breadth of the carriageway, and no more, in front of any lot on which the building is being erected or repaired; said materials to be placed in such position and so arranged as may be approved of by the commissioners of improvements, under a penalty of not less than five nor more than ten dollars for each offense, and a further penalty of a like sum for every day the same may be suffered to remain, to be recovered from the owner of the property or the contractor for the erection or repairs of the building; and all materials and rubbish shall be removed by the con