The whole number of examinations made during the month of December was 245. Respectfully,

J. B. RUCKER, M. D.,
Superintendent.

It is impossible in this report to present a summary of the work of the Board for 1906, because such report would not be complete without the consideration of the statistics, and these cannot be tabulated and analyzed within ninety days. Before the next regular meeting a summary for the year will be presented.

As ordered by the Board, the new Health Law and the new Pure Food and Drug Law, as submitted and passed upon by the Board, were resubmitted to the Attorney-General, and at this meeting I present the remodeled and rewritten bills,

After a little discussion, the secretary's report, as read, was ordered to be placed of record.

NEW HEALTH LAW.

The secretary reported that Mr. Dowling, Deputy Attorney-General, had, after study, recommended that the new legislation written by the Board be written as an amendment to the Health Law of 1891. His reasons were that the old law contained no less than five acceptable sections; also it had been amended in 1899, and the amendment declaimed unconstitutional because of the omission, by an engrossing clerk, of one line out of the title of the act amended; also because it would probably be easier to secure an amendment than to secure an entire new law.

The bill was carefully studied by sections and only a few minor changes made, and the secretary was directed to have it introduced into the lower house of the Legislature.

BILL FOR A TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL.

Hon. Richard Elliott and Dr. Theo. Potter of the State Tuberculosis Commission, sent a copy of a bill establishing a State Tuberculosis Hospital, for the consideration of the Board. The said bill was carefully reviewed and a few changes suggested. The prin

cipal suggestion was that the official name of the institution be The Indiana State Health Farm. It was also suggested, in connection therewith, that provision be made for local tuberculosis dispensaries.

THE PURE FOOD BILL.

The new Pure Food and Drug Bill, as last revised and written by Deputy Attorney-General Dowling, was read and considered, section by section, and approved.

Work for the coming quarter was discussed, but no orders were given, as a new health law was hoped for from the present Legislature.

SPECIAL MEETING INDIANA STATE BOARD HEALTH.

Called to order by President Davis at 2 p. m. Tucker, McCoy, Hurty, Wishard.

March 15, 1907.

Present: Davis,

President Davis announced the object of the meeting was to consider new rules, establishing food and drug standards and declaring specific adulterations, under the new food law. Also to appoint food and drug inspectors, to appoint a drug chemist, to fix salaries and to make rules governing the various departments and to take up such other work as might be presented.

Moved by Tucker and seconded by McCoy, that the various divisions of the State Board of Health shall be:

(1) DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION, of which the secretary of the Board shall be the head, and through said department all orders of the Board shall issue, and said secretary shall be the chief executive officer of the Board and director of all departments, subject to the supervision of the Board.

(2) DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS--The chief clerk of vital statistics shall be the head of this department.

(3) BACTERIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL LABORATORY, of which the superintendent of the same shall be the head.

(4) FOOD, DRUG AND WATER LABORATORY, of which the chemist of the Board, who is also, under the law, state food and drug commissioner, shall be the head.

(5) The two laboratories named in sections (3) and (4) shall constitute the State Laboratory of Hygiene.

Adopted separately and as a whole.

The Board then took up the consideration of the pure food and drug laws, and after consideration, each rule was adopted singly. and finally they were adopted as a whole. The adoption, as a whole, was unanimous.

FOOD AND DRUG RULES.

RULES OF THE INDIANA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, ACCORDING TO CHAPTER 104, ACTS OF 1907, ESTABLISHING MINIMUM STANDARDS AND DEFINING SPECIFIC ADULTERATION OF FOODS AND DRUGS.

(Passed March 15, 1907, by the Indiana State Board of Health.)

The Pure Food and Drug Law, approved March 4, 1907, makes it the duty of the State Board of Health to enforce "the laws of the state governing food and drug adulteration" and makes "the chemist of the State Board of Health appointed by said board,. .....the state food and drug commissioner." The authority of the state board for making rules is found in Section 7 of the Pure Food and Drug Law as follows: "The State Board of Health shall adopt such rules as may be necessary to enforce this act, and shall adopt rules regulating minimum standards for food and drugs, defining specific adulteration and declaring the proper methods of collecting and examining drugs and articles of food." The same section provides that: "The violation of said rules shall be punished, on conviction, as set forth in Section 10 of this act.”

In accordance with the authority above cited, the State Board of Health on March 15, 1907, adopted the following rules for the enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Act and regulating minimum standards for food and drugs.

These rulings furnish a definite basis for work in the enforcement of the “Pure Food and Drug Law,” and are intended to anticipate any question as to the attitude of the State Board of Health in regard to the application of the law to particular articles of food and will be followed in the enforcement of the law.

The definitions and standards adopted are generally those established as official for the United States by the Secretary of Agriculture by authority of an act of Congress approved June 3, 1902; or the standards as given in the latest edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, or after thorough investigation and trial adopted by many of the states.

EXPLANATORY DEFINITIONS.

1. The manufacturing for sale, offering for sale or having in one's possession to sell, within the State of Indiana, of any adulterated or misbranded drug or article of food, is unlawful.

2. The term "food" as used herein, includes all articles used for food, drink, confectionery or condiment by man or other animals, whether simple, mixed or compounded.

3. The term "drug" as used herein, includes all medicines and preparations recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary, for internal or external use, and any substance or mixture of substances intended to be used for the cure, mitigation or prevention of disease of either man or other animal.

4. An article shall be deemed to be adulterated within the meaning of Section 2 of the General Food Law:

A-IN THE CASE OF DRUGS.

1. If when sold under or by a name recognized in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary it differs from the standard of strength, quality or purity as determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary official at the time of investigation: Provided, That no drug as above defined shall be deemed to be adulterated if the standard of strength, quality or purity be plainly stated upon the box, bottle or other container thereof, although the standard may be different from that given in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary.

2. If its strength or purity fall below the professed standard or quality under which it is sold.

B-IN CASE of Food.

First. If any substance or substances have been mixed with it so as to reduce, or lower, or injuriously affect its quality or strength;

Second. If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article;

Third. If any valuable constituent has been wholly or in part abstracted from it;

Fourth. If it consists in any proportion of a filthy, diseased, decomposed, putrid or rotten animal or vegetable substance, whether manufactured or not, or in the case of milk. if it is the product of a diseased animal;

Fifth. If it is mixed, colored, coated, polished, powdered or strained in a manner whereby damage or inferiority is concealed, or whereby it is made to appear better or of greater value than it really is;

Sixth. If it contains any added poisonous or other added deleterious ingredient;

Seventh. If it contains any added antiseptic or preservative substance except common table salt, saltpeter, cane sugar, vinegar, spices or in smoked food, the natural products of the smoking process, or other harmless preservatives whose use is authorized by the State Board of Health.