it exists particularly in the counties bordering on the Ohio river opposite Kentucky, and that persons with the disease, or who have been exposed to it in Indiana, are constantly coming into and spreading this loathsome disease in Kentucky, and

Whereas, we learn upon inquiry that the health authorities and medical profession of Indiana have been powerless to restrict the spread of the disease for months for lack of funds, and that the fiscal authorities have persistently refused and still refuse to recognize the danger to their own citizens, or to those of other States, or to permit the use of funds especially appropriated for the suppression of such epidemics; and

Whereas, in consequence of such divided authority and parsimony, such conditions prevail in Indiana as to constantly and seriously threaten the health, lives and business interests of the people of Kentucky, and to impose additional and wholly unnecessary burdens upon our taxpayers, without hope of present or even promise of future relief;

Now, therefore, be it known, That the State Board of Health of Kentucky, in the exercise of authority vested in it by law, and in the discharge of a solemn public duty, hereby declares and issues its proclamation of quarantine against the State of Indiana, and each of the inhabitants thereof, and establishes the low-water mark on the Indiana shore as the boundary line of such quarantine, and it hereby forbids any person from State of Indiana to pass such quarantine line, or to enter the State of Kentucky in any other way, who does not procure and exhibit, before doing so, a certificate from some duly authorized health official of Indiana or Kentucky that such person has been successfully vaccinated within the past five years, or is otherwise immune from smallpox, and it forbids any railroad, bridge, electric or other transportation company, or any steamboat, ferryboat or other public or private craft or conveyance, or any company or individual owning, operating, managing or controlling the same, or any one of them, to bring, or permit to be brought, as either passenger or employe, any person from any point or place in Indiana to any point or place in Kentucky, who does not hold the certificate hereinbefore required; provided that this regulation shall not apply to passengers on through trains who do not stop over at any point in Indiana. The municipal and county health and civil officials of jurisdictions bordering on the Ohio river and its tributaries, or having other travel connections with Indiana, are hereby authorized and instructed to enforce the quarantine regulations herein imposed, and such additional regulations as they may deem necessary for the protection of their respective jurisdictions; and the health and police and other peace officials of such municipalities and counties are hereby made health inspectors for the enforcement of these regulations.

This proclamation of quarantine shall take effect and be in force

from and after noen of June 1, 1902, and until officially annulled by this board.

The executive committee was instructed to arrange for putting the quarantine regulations into effect and to superintend their enforcement.

Upon motion of Dr. Mayer, the suggestions contained in the president's address in regard to a sanatorium for the treatment of consumption was approved.

Drs. Mayer and Mathews were appointed a special committee to investigate the sanitary condition of sleeping and other cars passing through and operating within this State, with direc tions to report as to steps which may be taken for their im provement.

Drs. Bailey and McCormack were appointed a committee to confer with the State Board of Education with a view to securing a uniform enforcement of vaccination in the schools of the State.

Dr. M. K. Allen, City Health Officer, presented the following communication indicating gratifying progress in sanitary work in Louisville.

Report from Louisville City Board of Health.

LOUISVILLE, KY., April 27, 1902.

To the Honorable State Board of Health:

GENTLEMEN:-It may be of some interest to your honorable board, to know that our city health department has a thoroughly well equipped and competently manned chemical and bacteriological laboratory, and that we are prepared to make all kinds of scientific analyses and tests to determine food impurities and adulterations. While this result has only recently been accomplished, we feel that enough has already been done to warrant the long, persistent effort required to attain this end.

After the establishment of this feature of health work, the first thing presenting itself as essential was to ask the aid of the public press to assist us in directing public thought to the necessity of pure food of every kind. This was very effectively done, and the public mind is now in thorough sympathy with our efforts to protect health

and life by this means, save and except, the dealer who handles impure or adulterated food products. The first article of diet taken up for examination was milk. We gathered samples of milk from rail road depots, wagons, milk depots and dairies.

The first month's work demonstrated that the city was being supplied with a very inferior quality of milk. Out of fifty samples, thirtyfive were found to be below the standard, either in butter fat or in total solids, besides being for the most part filthy.

The fifteen samples which were above the minimum standard of 3 per cent. butter fat, showed only four which could be classed as first grade milk.

Most of the short samples were found to contain analine as a coloring matter, used for deceptive purposes. The average in butter fat of the fifty samples was 2.89 per cent. The average specific gravity was 1 0283 instead of 1.029, as is required.

During the month of March, a very gratifying improvement was noticed in the samples taken. Of the fifty-three samples examined, thirty-three were above standard, the average in butter fat being 3.19 per cent., and the specific gravity of 1.0293 was shown. In April, fifty samples gave an average in butter fat of 3.24, and a specific gravity of 1.0296.

Our work for the month of May, so far, shows a gradual increase in the purity of our milk supply.

In the outset of this work, we notified offenders as to the result of examinations, with an accompanying warning. We have now had six offenders fined $20 each, and have some cases pending. We are requiring dairymen to furnish veterinary certificates as to the physical condition of dairy cattle, and up to this date, we have received 262 certificates, representing 5,276 examinations, made partly in Kentucky and partly in Indiana. We have also ordered some special veterinary examinations of cows, the milk of which showed, by microscopical examination, the presence of pus, blood or bacteria, and in each instance the veterinarians' report has been corroborative. The result of our examinations have not been questioned, but an attack is being made on the legality of our ordinance, with the hope, I presume, that our restrictions as to the purity of milk may be broken down, so that short. milk, with adulterants and antiseptics, may be sold without hinderance.

We had seven indictments returned by the April grand jury for the sale of adulterated food products other than milk, and we are now completing the examination of a number of samples of catsup, preserves and jelly for the purpose of prosecution, as they have been found adulterated.

We are proceeding against fish dealers, for the sale of spoiled fish. We have secured a fine of $100 against one butcher for the sale of meat unfit for human food. We fully recognize the magnitude of the work we have undertaken, and we also fully recognize that it is

mountain high, full of difficulties and obstacles hard to be met. But we do not propose to be deterred, because we recognize that our mortality rate is too high, and we feel the responsibility resting upon us as officials to use every effort to lower it by an honest, conscientious, energetic effort to secure to the people of the city of Louisville pure food, pure water and pure air, which we believe is necessary to accomplish this end.

Very respectfully,

M. K. ALLEN, Health Officer.

REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

CALLED MEETING.

The board met in called session at the Galt House, Louisville, at 3 P. M. May 30, 1902, to consider the postponement of the Indiana quarantine. Present, Drs. Mathews, Bailey, Mayer and McCormack. members; and Drs. W. N. Wishard, president; J. N. Hurty, secretary and Clark Cook, members of the Indiana State Board of Health.

After the boards had gone into session Dr. W. N. Wishard rose to state that he was the bearer of an official message from the Governor of Indiana to the effect that all necessary expenses incurred by the Board of Health in the suppression of smallpox would be promptly met. Also, Dr. Wishard declared that the State Board would to-morrow put men in the field, and that everything possible would be done toward the suppression of smallpox. Special attention would be paid to the counties bordering the Ohio river, and the disease would be stamped out effectually in a short time. Above all, no trouble or expense would be spared.

The various county and municipal boards, Dr. Wishard continued, would be compelled to get to work. In view of all these assurances, Dr. Wishard, as vice-president of the board, in the name of the board and of the State, asked that the quarantine be annulled.

After full and extended conference, during which it developed that it seemed more desirable to extend rather than to entirely annul the quarantine, the following order was unanimously adopted:

Whereas, The Indiana State Board of Health brings an official