Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1900 — Page 6

HEALTH AND FOOD. Rules Adopted by the State Board of Health Under the Law. Os Importance to Manufacturers. Consumers. Grocers, Dairymen and to Everybody. ' ” INDIANA tTATE BOARD OF HFALTH. Health—Rules of the Indiana Stat© Board of Health, According to Chapter XVI, Acts of 1899, to Prevent Outbreaks and the Spread of Contagious, Infectious and Other Diseases, and For the Governmeut of Subordinate Boards of Health and AH Health Officers-Passed In Regular Session, October 18, 1893— Buies For t*»e Government of County. City and Town Heulth Officers. Rule 1. The communicable diseases langerous to the public health, and which Shall be imir diatuly reported to the nearest health officer, are hereby dec. area to be yellow fever, smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croop, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, typhus fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis, typhoid fever, bubonic plague, leprosy and pulmonarytuberculosis. Pulmonary tuberculosis an! typhoid fever shall not be quarantined, but shall be immediately reported. Rule 2. It shall be unlawful for any school teacher or other school officer to admit to any public, private or parochial ichool, whether as a pupil or otherwise, liny person affected with any communicable disease dangerous to the public health.

Rule’ 3. It shall be unlawful for any parent, guardian or other person having control of any child affected by any contagious or infectious disease dangerous to the public health, to permit said child to attc-nd any public, private or parochial school, or be present in any public place. Rule 4. It shal. be unlawful for any school teacher or other school officer to admit to any public, private or parochial school, whether as a pupil or otherwise, any person who has come from, or who resides in any house of building affected with any communicable disease dangerous to the public health, or who has recently been affected with any communicable disease dangerous to the public health, unless such person shall first present a certificate signed by a reputable physician stating that all danger of communicating such disease is past, and said certificate has been approved and indorsed by the health officer in whose jurisdiction such person may reside. Rule 5. County, city and town Boards of Health shall, at all times, exercise supervision over the location, drainage, water supply, heating, ventilation, plumbing and disposal of excreta of all school houses and all public buildings within Their jurisdiction. No sewer or other drain through which it is contemplated to dispose of sewage shall be constructed by any public officer or person or corporation until the plans for such sower shall have been submitted to and approved by the local Board of Health possessing jurisdiction of the territory in which such sewer or drain is proposed to be construced. No school house or other public building shall be erected until the plans therefor shall have been submitted to, and the provisions for drainage, water supply, heating, ventilation, plumbing and disposal of excreta shall have been approved by the local Board of Health within whose jurisdiction such school house or other public building In proposed to be erected. Upon notification by any person it shall be the duty of the local Board of Health to examine into the location, drainage, water supply, heating, ventilation, plumbing and disposal of excreta of any school house or other public building within its jurisdiction. If. in the judgment of such Board of Health, the location, drainage, water supply, healing, ventilation, plumbing or disposal of excreta of any such school house or public building shall be so defective as to be detrimental to public health, it shall be the duty of the local Board of Health immediately to notify the proper officer having charge and control of such school house or public building of the nature of the existing defect, and of what should be done to correct the same, and it shall thereupon be the duty of the person or persons having charge and contro. oi said school house or public building forthwith to cause such changes in the location, drainage, water supply, heating, ventilation, plumbing or disposal of excreta as have been recommended by the local Board of Health to be made, and it shall be unlawful for such person or persons having authority over such school house or public building to permit the same to continue without making the change or changes recommended by the local Board of Health for a longer period than ten days from the time of the receipt by such person or persons of the order of the .ocal Board of Health recommending such change or changes. An appeal may be taken in case of disagreement to the State Board of Health, and, pending such appeal, the order of the local board shall stand. Rule 6. In case of sickness, it shall be the duty of every person who shall know or suspect that the person taken sick is affected with any communicable disease dangerous to the public health, to give immediate notice to the Health Officer within whose jurisdiction such sick person may be found. Rule 7. Every physician who shall know or suspect that any person whom he is called upon to visit, or about whom he is consulted, has any communicable disease dangerous to the public health, shall immediately give notice, together with the locality and description of the case, to the Health Officer within whose jurisdiction such sick person may be found.

Rule 8. It shall be unlawful for any person having control of any child or children, to permit any such child or children to go from any house or building infected with any communicable disease dangerous to the public health (omitting pulmonary tuberculosis and typhoid fever) to attend any public, private or parochial school or Sunday school, or any church, theater, opera house, music hall or place of public entertainment, or any picnic or public gathering, or to travel in any street car or public vehicle, vessel, steamer. train, or to travel or be on any public highway, street, alley, public square or grounds, or in any park, without first procuring a permit from the county or local Health Officer, and they shall obey fully all official sanitary directions found in the health rules or which may be given by the Health Officer. Rule 9. It shall be unlawful for any person to enter or leave any house or building infected with any communicable disease dangerous to the public health, to attend any church, public meeting or place of amusement, or to travel on any street car or public vehicle, vessel or steamer, or travel or appear on any public street or highway, without first procuring a permit from the Health Officer exercising jurisdiction, and obeying absolutely his directions as to all sanitary precautions which shall be observed. Rule 10. It shall be unlawful for any person who is. or has been recently, affected with any communicable disease dangerous to the public health (omitting pulmonary tuberculosis), to travel or appear upon the public streets or highways, or to appear in any public place or gathering. or to travel in any public vehicle or vessel, until a certificate is made by the attending physician to the Health Officer within whose jurisdiction the case occurs, stating that all danger from infection or contagion by reason of such disease is passed, and such certificate is approved and indorsed by said Health Officer. Rule 11. Whenever a Health Officer shall know or suspect or be informed of the existence of any communicable disease dangerous to the public health, and there be no physician in attendance, or should any physician while in attendance fail or refuse to immediately report such case to the Health Officer, it shall be the duty of said Health Officer, or deputy, to examine such case or cases of alleged communicable disease dangerous to the public health, and act as required by the rules governing such cases of communicable diseases. Rule 12. In all cases where there has been an exposure or a suspected exposure to smallpox of any person or persons, it sha’l be the duty of the Ileal th Officer under whose jurisdiction

•aid person or persons may he temporal ' Uy or permanently residing, to quarantine ■ for fourteen days such person or persons as may be exposed or suspected of having been exposed to smallpox, and to ad- ■ vise vaccination or re-vaccination of all I ■who may have been thus exposed. It i shall be the imperative duty of the Health Officer to enforce this rule, and I In case of refusal or neglect by said Health Officer to comply with the requirements of this rule, or other rules, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Statt Board of Health to assume charge, and either in person or by his deputy enforce the foregoing rules. All vaccinations shall be made with non-humanized virus, the only exception being that, during an epidemic, of smallpox, should a sufficient quantity of bovine virus not be obtainable, humanized virus may be used when sanctioned by the Board of Health under whose jurisdiction said epidemic may occur. , „ _ Rule 13. Whenever a physician is called upon to attend a case of communicab.e disease dangerous to the public health, it shall be his duty to immediately report such case to the local Health Officer under whose jurisdiction such case may occur, and then it shall be the duty of such Health Officer to establish quarantine immediately by placarding the house and officially informing the householder, conymanding the members thereof not to leave the premises except by permission under the sanitary directions or the Health Officer. The card used for placarding shal not be less than twelve inches square, with the name of the disease plainly printed thereon, and said card to be posted in a conspicuous location. The card qr flag for cholera shall be black, wltr: the name of the disease printed in white letters. The card or flag for smallpox shall be red. and have the name of the disease printed thereon. The card or flag for diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, typhus fever and cerebro-spinal meningitU shall be yellow, with the name of the disease printed thereon. No person shall remove or cause to be removed (except at already provided) any such card or flag and the quarantine shall not be raised until a certificate is made by the attending physician satisfactory to the Health Officer in authority that the disease hai subsided and all danger of contagion oi infection by reason of such disease is passed, and that proper disinfection satisfactory to the Health Officer has beer accomplished. Any person violating th< quarantine or causing the removal (except as provided) or mutilation of said card or flag before a proper certificate has been placed In the hands of ths Health Officer in authority, upon conviction, shall be subjected to the penaltiei provided in section 13 of an act approved February 7, 1899. In cities and towns flags or cards shall be provided by city oi town Boards of Health, and outside the corporate limits of cities or towns, by county Boards of Health. Every physician attending a case of smallpox, diphtheria, membranous croup, scarlet fever, or other communicable disease dangerous to the public health, shall use every reasonable precaution to prevent communicating the disease to others. Rule 14. It Is hereby made the duty ol any person having charge of the remains of one who has died of smallpox to cause the body to be Interred within twelve hours after death, and It shall be the duty of any person having charge of the remains of those who died of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox or bubonic plague to cause said remains to be immediately’ wrapped in a sheet saturated with a solution of bichloride of mercury in the proportion of one ounce of the bichlodire of mercury to the gallon oi water, and placed in a coffin, which shal) be securely closed, and the coffin not tc be again opened. Rule 15. In all cases of death from cholera, bubonic plague, leprosy, typhui fever, yellow fever, smallpox, diphtheria membranous croup, scarlet fever and cerebro-spinal meningitis, the funeral shall be strictly private. No public oi church funerals shall be held, or any’ person permitted to enter the house containing the remains, excepting the undertaker and his assistants, unless by permission of the Health Officer. Rule 16. The room in which there has been a case of contagious disease danger ous to the public health shall be immediately’ disinfected following the recovery of the sick or the removal of the remains as follows, to-wlt:

All surfaces should be thoroughly washed with a solution of corrosive sublimate of the strength of one part in one thousand parts of water. The walls and ceiling. If plastered, should be brushed over with this solution, after which they should be whitewashel with a lime wash. Especial care must be taken to wash away all dust from window ledges anc other places where It may have settled and to thoroughly cleanse crevices anc out-of-the-way places. After this application of the disinfecting solution and ai Interval of twenty-four hours or longei for free ventilation, the floors and woodwork should be well scrubbed with soar and hot water, and this should be followed by a second more prolonged exposure to fresh air admitted through oper doors and windows. School books oi books from a circulating library shall not be taken into or removed from any house during the prevalence of any contagious disease dangerous to the public health and if such books have ’ been in suck houses during the prevalence of said diseases. they must be destroyed by such owner or library’ authorities or be properly’ disinfected before being returned tc schools or put in circulation. Formaldehyde disinfection may be substituted for the above method of disinfection as follows: Clothing (as here described or as below under sick room). —lnto a trunk or bos having a cover, place the garments ont at a time, sprinkling each one with one or two tablespoonfuls of 40 per cent, formaldehyde. mixed with an equal amount of water. Allow the trunk or box to remain closed for five hours, then open anc hang the garments in the open air. Ts the formaldehyde odor persists, sprinkle th< garments lightly’ with diluted aqua ammonia. Fed Clothes and Bed Furnishing's.Sheets. pillow cases and blankets shou’e be boiled in water for at least thirty minutes. Comforts may be treated as described for clothing, or submitted to the action of formaldehyde gas in the sich room. Straw ticks, husk and cotton mattresses should be burned, as they are toe inexpensive to trouble with. Hair mattresses and feather beds should first be subjected in the sick room to the actior of formaldehyde gas and afterward seni to be steamed and renovated. Pillows should be treated as described for mattuesses and feather beds. All bed clothes except bed linen, may' also be treated ir the rick, room as described below. Sick Room.—Make as air-tight as possible. open closet doors, drawers and al closed receptacles: scatter their ronton** about the room: suspend clothing and bee clothes upon lines stretched across the room, or spread out on chairs or othei objects; books must be opened and th* leaves spread—in short, the room and its contents so disposed as to secure free access of gas to all parts as freely as possible. Now for each 1.000 cubic feet oi space take eight ounces of 40 per cent formaldehyde, mix with one pint of watei and with a small sprinkling pot having ? verv fine sprinkler—a child’s toy' sprinkling pot is satisfactory—sprinkle the disinfectant over carpet, clothes, mattresses stuffed furniture and sides of the room Before sprinkling place a damp towe over mouth and nose. Close the roorr an-d allow It to remain so for not less than five hours, but ten if possible, ther open, remove all articles to the open ail and dean the room thoroughly. MARRIAGE. BIRTH AND DEATH REPORTS. Rule 17. City and town Health Officer} shall record in a record book all birthi and deaths and contagious or infection! diseases named in Rule 1. and they’ shall before the 15th of each month for the month preceding, send to the county Health Officer the original returns 01 births and contagious disease, but thf original certificates and records of death received shall, after record in the loca books, be sent direct to the State Boarc of Health by’ the fifth of each month foi the month preceding. It shall ba the duty of the county Health Officer to make e record of returns of births, contagious diseases and marriages, in a record book All record books shall be of the form anc character prescribed by’ the State Board of Health. Rule 18. All physicians, accoucheur! and midwives in this State are hereby required to report to the Secretary’ of the Board of Health of the town, city oi county in which they may occur (w’ithir fifteen days all births whirl

may occur in their practice. Whenevei a physician's supply of the necessar? blank's on which to make returns Is near ly exhausted he shall at once make f requisition for the same on the Health Os- I fleer within whose jurisdiction he mas ( reside, and said Health Officer is hereto? required to Immediately supply the denißu?e 111. It Is ordered that each count? Health Officer In this State shall, on oi before the 20th day of the month follow-| lug the clone of each quarter, make toil quarterl?' returns of all marriages, births and diseases dangerous to the public health to the Secretary of th? State Board of Health, on blanks prescribed and furr.tshed bv the State Board of Health. Rule 20. Whenever any birth occurs with no physician, accoucheur or midwife in attendance, then such birth shall be reported to the town, city or county Health Officer by the householder or other person under whose observation such , birth may occur. All such reports to be made within fifteen days. . I Rule 21. Ail persons authorized in this , State to solemnize marriages are ordered • to make a report of all marriages sol-; emnized by them to the Clerk of the <_ ircuit Court by whom the marriage license was issued, in blanks furnished by’ such Clerk, within seven days after the marriage Is solemnized. Rule 22. In case any person feels aggrieved at any act of a Health Officer, appeal may be made to the State Board in session or its executive officer, but pending such appeal the act of such Health Officer shall remain in force. Rule 23. All city and town Health Officers shall make, at least once in each year, a sanitary survey of their respective jurisdictions, for the purpose of ascertaining the existence of conditions detrimental to the public health, including in such survey' stagnant ponds, imperfect drainage, sewerage, pigsties, cesspools and water closets, and all unsanitary' conditions, and the construction, heating, ventilation, plumbing and disposal of excreta of all public buildings, prisons, hospitals and eleemosynary institutions, and shall make written report of their surveys with recommendations, if any. tc their respective Boards, and county* officers shall send a. copy* of their reports tc ike State Board. Rule 24. It shall be the duty of all health authorities, officers of State institutions, police officers, sheriffs, constables and all officers and employes of the State, or any county, city or town thereof, to assist in enforcing the foregoing orders, rules and regulations. RAILWAYS AND STEAMBOATS, AND ALL COMMON CARRIERS. Rule 25. No common carrier or any person shall bring into the State of Indiana any sick or suspected of being sick with Asiatic cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus fever, diphtheria, membranous croup and scarlet fever, bubonic plague, leprosy, or any other communicable disease dangerous to the public health. Rule 26. When any railway car. steamboat, vessel or conveyance coming from a place or locality declared by the State Board of Health having jurisdiction a* being infected with cholera, smallpox, typhus fever, bubonic plague, leprosy oi yellow fever, or having on board any person or persons affected with any* of the above-named diseases enters any port or place in the State of Indiana, such railway car, steamboat, vessel or other conveyance and the crew, officers, passengers, baggage, merchandise and freight shall be subject to such inspection and disinfection as may be ordered by the State Board of Health. Rule 27. If any person is found on any railway car, steamboat, vessel or other conveyance, who is sick, or reasonably supposed to be sick, with cholera, smallpox, typhus fever, bubonic plague, lepro.-y or yellow fever, he or she shall be immediately removed by the health authoritie.wlthin whose jurisdiction such person is found and isolated and properly cared for until the termination of the disease, and the necessary expense of such isolation ■.nd care (if the person so removed is unable to pay the same) shall be a valid claim against and be refunded by the owners, agents or assigns of the railwaycar. st earn be at, vessel or other conveyance from wnich such person cr persons were removed.

Rule 28. In case of smallpox all persons reasonably' suspected of having been exposed thereto shall be removed from such railway car, steamboat, vessel oi other conveyance and be isolated for fourteen (14) days from the last exposure. In case of typhus fever, all persons reasonably suspected of having been exposed thereto shall be removed and isolated for twenty-one (21) days from the last exposure. In case of cholera, bubonic plague or yellow fever, all persons reasonably suspected of having been exposed thereto shall be removed and isolated for five (5) days from last exposure. The clothing of persons so removed and all baggage, luggage, freight or merchandise found on any railway, steamboat, vessel or other conveyance, on which there is any' person sick with cholera, smallpox, typhus fever, bubonic plague or yellow fever, and reasonably suspected of having been infected, shall be at once disinfected or destroyed, and such railway car, steamboat, vessel or other conveyance shall also be disinfected as required by the Board of Health having jurisdiction. Rule 29. When deemed necessary by the State Board of Health to prevent the spread of cholera and after ten (10) days’ notice, each and every’ railway car. steamboat, vessel in or coming into the State of Indiana, and used for the transportation of passengers, shall be provided with means satisfactory to said Boaid of Health for disinfecting the excreta of passengers and crews. Rule 30. It shall be the duty of the conductor of any railway train and the master of any steamboat or vessel to immediately notify by telegram the Secretary of the State Board of Health, at Indianapolis, of any’ case or suspected case of cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, diphtheria, bubonic plague or typhus fever occurring on board such train, boat or vessel within the limits of the State of Indiana. Rule 31. It shall be the duty of the Board of Health of any town, city’ or county to at once furnish the State Board of Health with a true copy of any quarantine orders or regulations adopted by said Board of Health as against any foreign State or any’ municipality' or township within the State of Indiana. Rule 32. Any person or persons failing, or refusing to comply with either or any of the foregoing rules shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 14 of an act establishing a State Boaid of Health, approved February 7. 1899. By order State Board Health. T. HENRY DAVIS, M. D., President. Richmond, Ind. E. D. LAUGHLIN, M. D., Vice-Pros., Orleans, Ind. J. 11. FORREST, M. D., Marion. Ind. H. JAMESON, M. D., Indianapolis, Ind. J. N. IIURTY, M. D., Phar. I).. Sec y., Indianapolis, Ind. INDIANA STATE BOARD JJF HEALTH. Food — Rules of the Indiana State Board of Health, According to Chapter CXXI, Acts of 1 H 99. Kstablisbinff Minimum Standards and Defining: Specific Adulterations of Foods and Drugs—Passed‘October 13, 1899. MILK. Rule 1. Pure cow’s milk shall have the following minimum composition: Fat, 3 per cent.: solids, not fat, 9 per cent. Rule 2. Water existing in cow’s milk in excess of 88 per cent, shall be an adulteration. Any’ coloring matter added, for any purpose whatsoever, shall be an adulteration. Any’ chemical antiseptic whatever. added for any purpose whatever, shall be- an adulteration. Rule 3. Milk sold or offered for human consumption that is taken from a cow that has calved within four (4) days, or from a cow that will come in or calve inside of twenty-one (21) days, is polluted, and shall be considered as adulterated. Rule 4. Milk sold or offered for human consumption that is taken from a cow fed w’ith damaged food, or any food which will impart a disagreeable flavor, is impure, and shall be considered as adulterated Rule B. Milk soid or offered for human consumption that is taken from any’ sick or diseased cow. ©r any cow that is given polluted water to drink, or which is kept under conditions contrary to the rules of the State Board of Health governing dairies, is ’mpure, and shall be '•ons’dered a» adulterated.

PUBLICJ>ALE. SATURDAY, FEB., 24 THE FOLLOWING NEW GOODS: One set If double hip strap log harness, Two sets If pad harness for farm use, One set 11 pad harness, slip tug, for farm use, One set 11 flat pad harness for farm use, One set trace, chain and piping, No. 1 plow harness, Five sets single buggy harness—all kinds. Above are all of my own make and warranted. Several second hand sets of harness, double and single. I will also close out my winter goods, horse blankets, robes, etc SECOND HAND GOODS. My stock of second hand goods was never so complete and I will offer for sale, beds, lounges, stoves, cupboards, stands, commodes, one fine folding bed, baby cabs, wire flour stands, feed grinder, 300 feet 11 inch rope with blocks, etc., 65 feet inch rope, two light open rigs, single; clocks, watches, etc., and many other useful articles. TERMS OF SALE. On all sales amounting to $3.00 and over, I will give a credit of nine months purchaser giving good security. H. S. Porter. the day and date. DECATUR, INDIANA. < &

PUTTER. Rule 6. The word “butter” shall mean the substance usually known as butter, made exclusively from milk or cream, with or without salt oi coloring matter, and shall contain not less than SV per cent, of pure milk fats. Rule 7. If any of the following-named substances are found in butter, they shall be considered adulterants: Water in excess of 15 per cent.; salt in excess of 6 per cent.: salicylic acid, borax, boric acia, saltpeter, lormajoenyae, glucose, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate, or any other added chemical, or any other fat than butter fat. any other coloring matter than is natural to butter, except annatto. saffron, safflower, turmeric and harmless coal tar colors. MARGARINE. Rule 8. The word “margarine” shall mean all substances, whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter or not. Rule 9. If any of the following-named substances are found In “margarine” they shall be considered adulterants: Water In excess of 15 per cent.; salt in excess of 6 per cent.: glucose, paraffine, salicylic acid, borax, boric acid, saltpeter, formaldehyde, sodium carbonate or bicarbonate, or any chemical preservative. Any coloring matter or mixture of coloring matters other than annatto, saffron, safflower and turmeric and other harmless vegetable colors. and the harmless coal tar colors, shall be considered adulterants. CHEESE. Rule 10. Cheese not made wholly from milk or cream, salt and harmless co oring matter shall be considerated adulterated. Rule 11. Cheese containing less than 10 per cent, of milk fats shall be considered adulterated unless plainly labeled “skim milk cheese" in letters not less than one inch long, the label to be plainly exposed. Rule 12. Cheese containing any other fats than milk fats shall be considered adulterated unless plainly labeled “Filled Cheese." Rule 13. Cheese containing any’ coloring matter other than annatto, safflower, saffron, turmeric or harmless coal tar colors. shall be considered as adulterated. Rule 1-1. Cheese containing any chemical antiseptic other than common salt shall be considered as adulterated, unless plainly labeled with the name of the antiseptic it contains. Rule 15. Any article of food, as catsup, mince meat, canned meats or fish, canned vegetables, canned soups, canned fruits, molasses or syrups, which are found to be preserved by or to contain salicylic acid, benzoic acid, boracic acid, formaldehyde or any of their compounds or any other antiseptic, shall be considered as adulterated unless the article of food so preserved Is plainly labeled with the name of the preservative or antiseptic added. The label announcing any article of food, of the class in this rule named, as preserved with any antiseptic shall be printed in plain type, either upon the original or a separate label, and it shall be firmly and securely attached on the exterior of the package, and in plain sight. This rule shall be in force and take effect October 1. 1900. Rule 16. Coffee.—Any’ article offered for sale as coffee, which contains any* substitute for the coffee bean in any’ proportion, shall be considered as adulterated unless the quantity and kind of such substitute is given as part of the label. Rule 17. Candy.—Any’ candy’ containing terra alba, barytes, talc, or other mineral substance, or poisonous colors or flavors, or any ingredient delete-ious to shall be considered as-adulterated. Rule 18. Cider.—Cider is the unfermented juice of the apple. Any substitute for apple juice or any antiseptic added constitues an adulteration, and such adulterated cider shall not be offered for sale unless each package is labeled and the name of the adulterant is made a part of the label. Rule 19. Flour.—Flour is defined as the fine and bolted meal of the wheat grain Any flour that is mixed with the product of any grain except wneat. or is mixed with any mineral substance, shall be considered as adulterated, unless each package is labeled and the kind and the amount of the admixture is made part of the label. Rule 20. Buckwheat and Rye Flour — Buckwheat and rye flour must be derived wholly from grains designated in the name, and any admixture of other flours or materials constitutes an adulteration unless each package is labeled and the kind and amount of such admixture is made part of the label. Rule 21. Fruit jellies, fruit butt**r« Deserves. canned fruits, fruit conserves’ confections. fruit juices and syrups ’ etc must consist of the fruit specified in the label, preserved only with pane sugar i (sucrose), and must not contain artificial

flavors, coloring matters or antiseptics. If such articles contain any’ substitute for the fruit, or any inferior material to make up bulk or weight, any’ glucose or other substitute for sugar, any artificial flavor, color or antiseptic, or any substance not naturally occurring in such fruits, except spices or other wholesome natural flavoring materials, they shall be considered adulterated, and shad not be offered for sale unless the presence of all such substances is clearly indicated bv the label. This rule shall be in force and. take effect October 1. 1900. Rule 22. Honey.- Honey is the nectar of flowers and other saccharine exudations of plants gathered by bees. Honey’ made by feeding bees glucose, sugar, inver sugar, or other saccharine substance, h declared not to be pure honey, and. therefore is adulterated. Adding sugar, invert sugar or glucose to honey constitutes an adulteration, and such adulterated honey shall not be sold unless the quantity and name of the adulterant is made part of the label. Rule 23. Lard.—Lard is the fat of swim the fat being melted and separated fror the flesh. tiding beef fat or stearin* cotton seed oil. paraffine or other substi tute for swine fat constitutes an adulteration. and such adulterated lard shall w be sold unless labeled and the quantit and name of the adulterant is made par of the label. Ru e 24. Molasses and Syrups.—All molasses and syrups are assumed to be made from the juice of cane or other sugar producirg plant, or the sap of the map’ tree, and any syrup or molasses containing starch sugar, glucose or corn syrup shall be considered adulterated, and anv substance sold or offered for sale “maple sugar or syrup" that shall contain any brown sugar, granulated sugar or loaf sugar or colored or flavored with decoction of hickory bark, corncobs or anv other similar substances, shall be considered adulterated, unless the label plainly indicates the substances used. Rule 25. Olive oil is the expressed oil of the olive. The substitution of other oils or fats for olive oil, either in part or whole, constitutes an adulteration and such adulterated oil shall not be offered for sale unless labeled with the amount and kind of the adulterant. Rule 26. Spices, mustard, pepper etc must not contain any foreign substances or coloring matter, introduced to dilute or cheapen the article, and anv such ad mixture constitutes an adulteration, and shall no: be sold unless its kind and amount are indicated on the label , Rule 2 ‘\. T£ ‘ a -“ Tea consists of "the dried leaves of the true tea plant, without addition of artilicial coloring matter or filler or extraction of any essential properties’ and any article offered as tea which does not conform to this definition is considered adulternt.-.1. .nd shall not be offered for sale unless its true composition is riv. en as part of the label. Rule 28. A’inegar.—Standard vinegar is 1 a vinegar made from the juice of the apple. containing not less than 2 per cent of apple solids and 4 per cent, acetic «c?d All vinegars labeled "apple,” "cider” ■fruit or "orchard" vinegars are Issumed under the law to he standard vine gars. A inegars not made of the juice of the apple must be labeled trulv of what thes- are made as "malt vinegar* "dis filled vinegar” or "wine vinegar." otherwise they are to be considered adulterated. If artificial coloring matter Is used «£, “v be sta,ed on “ch and evere label. A ir.egars to which other acids th™ lc a : ld have been added are adulter" ated. A inegars containing less thas 4 nL. cent, absolute acetic acid may be provided the percentage of acetic add is made part of the label. cla ls Rule 29. Baking Powders.— It shall he unlawful for any unwholesome or dele! terlous baking powder to be sold or of" sered for sale within the State of ' Rule 30. Wines. Brandies Whisk ? *' The standards and methods of examtoa tion of the United States Pharmf, g e'n r e lng wines - bra ndtos and WhHkT« shall be the standards and animation of wines, brandies and kies In the State of Indiana W “ ls - Rule 31 Food Inspectors, when securing samples of food or drugs for ™ > sis. shall, if the quality procure! b e ?hJS l ln a , moun “ divide said sample three equal parts, marking e 0 date of collection, name and' residence of ,') an,e a ”d residence of Insoectnr and shall number the several porttonsl' No 3 ’2 regained by ed to mak° r t°h Sent ,O the : ie3°or rn p k or e ti^ s R: le TThL ai,ybr l aki . ngof « Provisionso?thew Ve r r uie<| O sc a haH BI . IJ ° f ,he

tion 2. Chapter CXXI, of an act approved February 28, 1899. Bv order State Board of Health, T. HENRS DAVIS. M. D.. President. Richmond, Ind. E. D. LAUGHLIN, M. D.. Vice-Preu,. Orleans, Ind. .1. H. FORREST. M D , Marion. Ind. H. JAMESON, M. D., Indianapolis. Ind. J. N. HURTY.M. D..Phar. D.iSec'y.. Indianapolis. Ind. Dr. HF. COSTELLO, Sec’y. Adams County Board of Health. MARKETS. CORRECTED BY J. D. HALE, GRAIN MERCHANT, DECATUR, IND. Wheat, new < 65 Corn, per cwt, yellow (new) 44 Corn, per cwt. (new) mixed 42 Oats, new .... 20 (fz 23 Rye 45 Barley 35 Clover seed 4 00 @ 4 40 Timothy 1 00 (ft 1 10 Eggs, fresh 11 Butter 16 Chickens 5f Ducks 05 Turkeys 07 Geese 04 Wool 18 to 22 Wool, washed 25 and 28 Hogs 4 50 TOLEDO MARKETS FEB. 21, 1:30 P. M. 44 heat, new No. 2 red, eash.. 5 ' H May wheat 753 Cash corn No. 2 mixed, cash.. 354 May corn 354 Prime clover 5 40 Decatur High School. The following program will be given by the Decatur High School this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. All friends and patrons of the school areeordially iuuited to be present. Music, “America,” School. Oration, “Washington,”Lynn Simpson. Essay, “Sayings About, Washing’ington,” Bernice Peterson. Music, Ladies Quartet Blanche Dibble, Dessie Beerv, Nora Smith. Harriet Hill. Recitation, “The Birthday of 44 ashton. Arbye Lock. Soliloquy, “Washington Visits in America, 20th Century,” Josephine Niblick. Music, Instrumental Solo, Hattie Niblick. Essay, “Mt. Vernon," Harry FrwmPapT. “Anecdotes About 44’ashington,” Bertha Heller. Music, “Native Land,” School- n “Romance of Revolutionary Tinies, Mary Hill. „ Recitation, “Our National Flng> Agnes Schrock. Music, Male Quartet Jesse Dailey, Chas. Adlesperger, Fred Patterson, Fred Blosser. Remarks. Music, “National Hymn.” School. The Chicago & Erie Ry. will seller cursion tickets to Mobile and New Ur leans account of Madri Gras festival' One fare for round trip Feb. 19 OReturn limit March 15. New 4orx City Merchant's Assn, meeting, and oneAhird fare certificate P“'; Feb. 13 to 17, and to Chicago he*’' to 21, one and one-third fare certi | cate plan.