LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, CARSON CITY, NEVADA, January 11, 1915. To His Excellency, EMMET D. BOYLE, Governor of Nevada. SIR: In compliance with an Act to create and establish a Board of Health and Bureau of Vital Statistics in the State of Nevada, I have the honor to present herewith a report for the biennial period ending December 31, 1914. SIMEON L. LEE, M.D., Secretary State Board of Health. The regular meetings of the Board are held in Carson City, Nevada, on the first Tuesdays of January and July of each year. LIBRARIES MARCH 1930 REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF HEALTH The following is the amendment to the Vital Statistics Law, passed by the Legislature during the session of 1913, and approved by the Governor March 15, 1913: AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act creating a State Board of Health, defining their duties, prescribing the manner of the appointment of its officers, fixing their compensation, and making an appropriation for the support of said board, establishing County Boards of Health, requiring certain statements to be filed, and defining certain misdemeanors and providing penalties therefor, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 27, 1911, by amending section six thereof and adding three new sections thereto, and providing for the renumbering of sections twenty-five, twentysix, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine, and thirty. The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section six of the above-entitled Act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 6. The Board of County Commissioners shall appoint a local health officer for a period of not less than one year who shall only be removed for incompetency, and who shall act as a collector of vital statistics and is empowered to appoint such deputy or deputies as may be necessary, with the approval of the Board of County Commissioners. For collecting and compiling the vital statistics of the county he shall receive from the county a sum not less than $25 per month, and the Board of County Commissioners is directed to allow a claim for this or for such greater sum as they may deem proper for the work performed; the deputies appointed by the local health officer, with the approval of the County Commissioners, shall be paid in the same manner a sum not to exceed $25 per month for registering and compiling the data prescribed by the State Board of Health and by this Act. The deputy health officers shall file with the local health officer monthly reports not later than the fifth day of each month, which said report shall be compiled by the local health officer and forwarded to the Secretary of the State Board of Health not later than the tenth day of each month. In counties where deputy registrars are appointed the County Commissioners shall allow them a monthly salary or the sum of one dollar ($1) for each birth and death certificate executed by them. SEC. 2. Following section twenty-four the following are to be inserted: Section 25. All cases of smallpox, diphtheria, or scarlet fever shall be reported by the attending physician to the local health officer within twenty-four hours after making such diagnosis, and on or before the fifth day of each month physicians shall report to the local health officer in their respective counties, all cases of contagious, infectious, or communicable diseases treated by them during the preceding month. Blanks for such reports shall be supplied by the State Board of Health. Section 26. Any physician who shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform any duties imposed upon them by the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five ($5) dollars nor more than twenty-five ($25) dollars. Section 27. It shall be the duty of the County Clerk of the several counties of the State to transmit to the Secretary of the State Board of Health, on or before the 10th day of January and the 10th day of June of each year the number of marriage licenses issued by him during the preceding six months. Section twenty-five of said Act to be renumbered and known as section twentyeight (28) and the following sections numbered consecutively up to and including section thirty-three (33). INTRASTATE QUARANTINE RULES AND REGULATIONS Passed by the Nevada State Board of Health, July 3, 1913 With a view to placing Nevada in harmony with national legislation, and subsequent amendments to the law issued by the Secretary of the |