in this chapter, or upon any substance of an unhealthy nature, is hereby declared to be impure and unwholesome, and milk which is proved by any reliable method of test or analysis to contain less than twelve and one-half per cent of milk solids to one hundred pounds of milk, or three pounds of butter fat to one hundred pounds of milk, shall be regarded as skimmed or partially skimmed milk, and every article not containing fifteen per cent or more of butter fat shall not be regarded as cream.

SEC 4991. Enforcement. It is hereby made the duty of the dairy commissioner to enforce the provisions of the two preceding sections.

SEC. 4992. Fraud in lard-from diseased hogs. All persons or associations that engage in the business of selling lard rendered from swine that have died of disease shall, before selling or offering to sell any such lard, plainly stamp, print or write upon the cask, barrel or other vessel containing it the words, "Lard from hogs which have died of disease;" or, if sold without such cask, barrel or other receptacles, the purchaser shall be informed that the lard is from hogs which have died of disease. For a violation of the provisions of this section he shall be fined not less than five nor exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty days.

SEC. 4993. Compound lard-labeling. No manufacturer or other person shall sell, deliver, prepare, put up, expose or offer for sale any lard, or any article intended for use as lard, which contains any ingredient but the pure fat of healthy swine in any tierce, bucket, pail, package or other vessel or wrapper, or under any label bearing the words "pure," "refined," "family" or either of these words alone or in combination with other words of like import, unless every tierce, bucket, pail, package or vessel, wrapper or label in or under which said article is sold, delivered, prepared, put up, exposed or offered for sale bears on the top or outer sides thereof, in letters not less than one-half inch in length, and plainly exposed to view, the words, "'compound lard," and the name and proportion in pound and fractional parts thereof of each ingredient contained therein. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined, for the first offense not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, and for each subsequent offense not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars.

SEC. 4994. Canned food-label. It shall be unlawful for any packer of or dealer in hermetically sealed, canned or preserved fruits, vegetables or other articles of food, not including canned or condensed milk or cream, to knowingly offer such canned or preserved articles for sale for consumption in this state, unless the cans or jars which contain the same shall bear the name, address and place of business of the person, firm or corporation that canned or packed the articles so offered, or the name of the wholesale dealer in the state who sells or offers the same for sale, together, in all cases, with the name of the state, city, town or village, where the same were packed plainly printed thereon, preceded by the words "packed at." Such name, address, and place of business shall be plainly printed on the label, together with a mark or term indicating clearly the grade or quality of the articles contained therein.

SEC. 4995. Soaked goods. All packers of and dealers in soaked goods, or goods put up from products dried or cured before canning, shall, in addition to complying with the provisions of the preceding section, cause to

be plainly branded on the face of the label in legible type, one-haif of an inch in height and three-eighths of an inch in width, the word "soaked."

SEC. 4996. Penalty. Any packer or dealer who shall violate any of the provisions of the two preceding sections shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for each offense in the case of retail dealers, and in case of wholesale dealers or packers, not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars for each offense.

SEC. 4997. Who deemed "packer" or "dealer." The terms ''packer" and "dealer," as used in the three preceding sections, shall include any firm or corporation doing business as a dealer in or packer of the articles mentioned therein.

SEC. 4998. Information by board of health. It shall be the duty of any board of health, cognizant of any violation of the provisions of the four preceding sections, to inform the county attorney, whose duty it shall be to institute proceedings against any person who is charged with a violation of such provisions, and in case of a conviction he shall receive twenty-five per cent of the fines actually collected in addition to any salary otherwise provided for.

SEC. 4999. Seats for female employes. All employers of females in any mercantile or manufacturing business or occupation shall provide and maintain suitable seats, when practicable, for the use of such female employes, at or beside the counter or work bench where employed, and permit the use thereof by such employes to such extent as the work engaged in may reasonably admit of. Any neglect or refusal to comply with the provisions of this section by any employer shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars.

SEC. 5078. What deemed nuisances. The erecting, continuing or using any building or other place for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture which, by occasioning noxious exhalations, offensive smells or other annoyances, becomes injurious and dangerous to the health, comfort or property of individuals or the public; the causing or suffering any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected or to remain in any place to the prejudice of others; the obstructing or impeding without legal authority the passage of any navigable river, harbor or collection of water; or the corrupting or rendering unwholesome or impure the water of any river, stream or pond, or unlawfully diverting the same from its natural course or state, to the injury or prejudice of others; and the obstructing or incumbering by fences, buildings or otherwise the public roads, private ways, streets, alleys, commons, landing places or burying-grounds, are nuisances.

SEC. 5079. Manufacture of gunpowder. If any person carry on the business of manufacturing gunpowder, or of mixing or grinding the composition therefor, in any building within eighty rods of any valuable building erected at the time when such business may be commenced, the building in which such business is thus carried on is a public nuisance.

SEC. 5081. Penalty—abatement. Whoever is convicted of erecting, causing or continuing a public or common nuisance as provided in this chapter, (chapter 14, title xxiv), or at common law when the same has not been modified or repealed by statute, where no other punishment therefor is specially provided, shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, and the

court, with or without such fine, may order such nuisance abated, and issue a warrant as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 4976. Sale of poison without label. If any apothecary, druggist or other person deliver to another any arsenic, corrosive sublimate, prussic acid or other poisonous liquid or substance without having the word "poison" and the true name thereof written or printed upon a label attached to or affixed upon the vial, box or parcel containing the same, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 4977. Spreading infectious disease. If any person inoculate himself or any other person or suffer himself to be inoculated with the smallpox within the state, or come within the state with the intent to cause the prevalence or spread of this infectious disease, he shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than three years, or be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding one year.

SEC. 4978. Putting infected person on public conveyance. If any person shall place or put, or aid or abet in placing or putting, any person upon any railroad car, steamboat or other public conveyance, knowing such person to be infected with diphtheria, smallpox or scarlet fever, he shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty days.

SEC. 4980. Selling drugged liquors. If any person wilfully sell or keep for sale intoxicating, malt or vinous liquors, which have been adulterated or drugged by admixture with any deleterious or poisonous substance, he shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding two years.

SEC. 4982. Adulterating food or liquor. If any person adulterate for the purpose of sale any substance intended for food, or any wine, spirituous, malt or other liquor intended for drinking, he shall be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, or be fined not exceeding three hundred. dollars, and the article so adulterated destroyed.

SEC. 4983. Drugs or medicines. If any person adulterate for the purpose of sale any drug or medicine in such manner as to lessen the efficacy or change the operation of such drug or medicine, or to make it injurious to health, or sell it knowing that it is thus adulterated, he shall be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding one year, or be fined not exceeding five hunhundred dollars, and such adulterated drugs and medicines destroyed.

SEC. 4984. Other adulteration. No person shall mix, color, stain or powder, or order or permit any other person to mix, color, stain or powder, any article of food or confections with any ingredient or material so as to render the article injurious to health, with the intent that the same may be sold, and no person shall sell or offer for sale any such articles.

SEC. 4985. With intent to sell. No person shall, except for the purpose of compounding in the necessary preparation of medicine, mix, color, stain or powder, or permit any other person to mix, color, stain or powder any drug or medicine with any ingredients or materials, so as to affect injuriously the quality or potency of such drug or medicine, with the intent to sell the same, or shall offer for sale any such drug or medicine.

SEC. 4986. Labeling. No person shall mix, color, stain or powder any article of food, drink or medicine, or any article which enters into the composition of food, drink or medicine, with any other ingredient or material,

whether injurious to health or not, for the purpose of gain or profit, or sell or offer for sale the same, or order or permit any other person to sell or offer for sale any article so mixed, colored, stained or powdered, unless the same be so manufactured, used or sold or offered for sale, under its true and appropriate name, and notice that the same is mixed or impure is marked, printed or stamped upon each package, roll, parcel or vessel containing the same, so as to be and remain at all time readily visible, or unless the person purchasing the same is fully informed by the seller of the true names of the ingredients (if other than such as are known by the common name thereof) of such articles at the time of making the sale thereof or offering to sell the same; but nothing in this section shall prevent the use of harmless coloring material used in coloring butter and cheese,

SEC. 4987. Glucose-skimmed-milk cheese-oleomargarin. No person shall mix any glucose or grape sugar with syrup or sugar intended for human food, or shall mix or mingle any glucose or grape sugar with any article, without distinctly marking, stamping or lebeling the article or the package containing the same with the true and appropriate name of such article, and the percentage in which glucose or grape sugar enters into its composition. Nor shall any person sell or offer for sale, or permit to be sold or offered for sale, any such food, into the composition of which glucose or grape sugar has entered, without at the same time informing the buyer of the fact, and the proportion in which glucose or grape sugar has entered into the composition.

SEC. 4988. Penalty. Any person violating any provision of the four preceding sections shall, for the first offense, be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars; for the second offense, not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail for not more than thirty days; for the third or any subsequent offense, not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years.

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APPENDIX

CIRCULAR No. 1

Rules and Regulations

For the Protection of Public Health and for the Restriction and Prevention of Contagious Diseases

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES

RULE 1. It shall be the duty of every physician residing or practicing within the limits of any city, town or township to give written notice to the mayor or township clerk (as the case may be) of any case of Asiatic cholera, smallpox, diphtheria (membranous croup), scarlet fever (scarlatina, scarlet rash), typhoid fever, measles, whooping cough, leprosy, or puerperal fever, that he may be called to attend professionally, within twenty-four hours after he shall first visit and ascertain the character of any such disease named herein. In all cases where no physician is in attendance, it shall be the duty of any person having charge of, or being at the head of any family, or having the care or custody of any lodging rooms to give notice in like manner as required of physicians. Every school teacher and school officer who discovers, or who has knowledge of a case of these contagious diseases, shall cause the fact to be immediately reported to the mayor or clerk of a township.

RULE 2. It shall be the duty of the mayor or township clerk (as the case may be), upon receiving written notice of the existence of a case of Asiatic cholera, smallpox, diphtheria (membranous croup), scarlet fever (scarlatina⚫ or scarlet rash), to forthwith quarantine the premises, by serving written notice to the occupants thereof, and placing a danger card thereon; and take such measures as may be necessary and proper for the restriction and suppression of such disease; and to investigate all the circumstances attendant upon the occurrence of the same. He shall also make proper provision for care of the sick. Where the disease is measles or whooping cough, the premises shall not be quarantined, but they shall be placarded with the danger card.