in the state and devise ways and means for restricting and controlling the disease. The results of his investigation shall form a part of the annual report of the state board of health and shall be otherwise distributed as the state board of health may decide among the people of the state for their enlightenment as to the prevalence and dangers of tuberculosis and the best methods of its cure and prevention.

7623c. Notice to disinfect premises.-3. The health officer of every city, town or county shall, as soon as possible after he received the report of any physician or other authority as provided in section one (1) of this act, that a person under his care and observation is suffering from tuberculosis, except in the cases of inmates of hospitals, dispensaries, asylums or other similar private or public institutions, and also immediately after receiving notice, as hereinafter provided, of the removal of any such person infected with tuberculosis, ascertain the name and address of the owner or agent of the apartment, house, room or premises occupied by such person so infected with tuberculosis and immediately notify in writing such owner or agent that an apartment, house, room or premises owned or rented by such owner or agent is occupied by a person infected with tuberculosis and further inform him of the duties hereinafter required of him in connection with the death or removal of such person infected with tuberculosis and in connection with the disinfection of such apartment, house, room or premises, and the penalties for failure to comply with such provisions.

7623d. Duty of health officer to disinfect.-4. When any apartment house, room or premises is vacated by the death or removal therefrom of a person infected with tuberculosis, the owner or agent of such apartment, house, room or premises shall notify the health officer of the city, town or county in which such apartment, house, room or premises is situated that such apartment, house, room or premises has been vacated. Upon receiving such notice such health officer shall himself or through his deputies immediately disinfect such apartment, house, room or premises in the manner now or hereafter to be prescribed by the state board of health. All expenses of such disinfection shall be borne by the city, town or county in which the aforesaid apartment, house, room or premises is situated.

7623e. Unlawful to rent premises not disinfected.-5. It shall be unlawful for any owner or agent to rent or allow to be occupied any apartment, house, room or premises vacated by the death or removal therefrom of a person infected with tuberculosis, until such apartment, house, room or premises shall have been thoroughly disinfected as above provided.

7623f. Penalty.-6. Any physician, any chief officer having charge of any hospital, dispensary, asylum or other similar private or public institution, any authorized school physician, any city, town or county health officer, or any owner, agent or any other person violating any provision of this act shall be quilty of a misdemeanor and shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than fifty dollars ($50).

7623g. Repeal.-7. An act entitled "An act for the prevention and control of tuberculosis in the State of Indiana," approved March 5, 1915, is hereby repealed.

This section repeals act 1915, p. 111, sections 7623h to 7623m inclusive.

[Acts 1915, p. 111. In force April 26, 1915.]

7623h. Tuberculosis, contagious, duties of physicians.

7623i. Health officer, report to state board of health.

7623j. Notice to owner of property.

7623k. Disinfecting premises, compulsory.

76231. Renting property without disinfecting.

7623m. Penalty.

This act was not printed or section numbered in the Supplement of 1918. The above section, 7623h to 7623m inclusive, Acts 1915, p. 111, are repealed by section 7, Acts 1917, p. 552, law without the signature of the Governor. See section 7623g Supplement of 1918, section 7623g of this Supplement.

[Acts 1919, p. 726. In force May 15, 1919.]

7624. Antitoxin free for poor, printed blanks.-1. All counties, cities and towns in the state are hereby required to supply free of charge diphtheria and tetanus (lockjaw) antitoxin to people too poor to purchase the same, under the following conditions, to wit: The State Board of Health shall supply uniform printed blanks to all county health officers, who shall supply them to trustees and subordinate health officers, said blanks to be printed by the board of commissioners of public printing and binding and to be known as diphtheria or tetanus antitoxin blanks, and said blanks shall call for the following information and affirmation: County, township, date, name and postoffice address of the father, mother or guardian of the child, or if neither of these exist or are unknown, then the name of the householder; name, age and sex of the child or person who is to be treated for diphtheria or tetanus or immunized; whether or not microscopical tests for diphtheria or the necessary tests for tetanus have been made; amount of antitoxin desired expressed in number of packages and in units; and such statistical and sanitary information as the

State Board of Health may require. The physician applying for the free antitoxin shall sign in ink the following affirmation, which shall be printed upon said blank: I solemnly affirm that the free antitoxin herein applied for will be administered to the person named above, and it is my belief after inquiry that the parents are too poor to pay for the same.

This section amends section 7624 Revision of 1914.

7625. County or city to pay for antitoxin.-2. Upon the receipt of an official diphtheria or tetanus antitoxin blank duly filled out and signed in ink by a physician as provided in this act any dealer may supply the diphtheria or tetanus antitoxin called for in said blank, and said blank shall be a legal claim for the market price of the antitoxin furnished, against the county, city or town in which it is used and against which the blank is issued.

This section amends section 7625 Revision of 1914.

7626. Township trustees to keep supply.-3. Township trustees shall at all times keep themselves supplied through county health officers with diphtheria and tetanus antitoxin blanks, and shall supply them to physicians when needed, and so also shall all health officers. County, city and town health officers shall check up and make official record of all cases in which free antitoxin has been furnished in their respective jurisdictions, and they shall promptly call the attention of the district prosecutor to any violation of this act which may come to their notice. County, city and town health officers shall, by the fifth of each month for the preceding month, send direct to the State Board of Health the statistical certificate which is attached to each diphtheria or tetanus antitoxin blank and which has been paid and taken up; but said blanks shall not be a valid claim and shall not be paid and taken up unless the attached statistical certificate has been filled out in ink by the physician who signed said blank, and any health officer refusing or neglecting to make reports as herein provided shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25). The purchase and administration of all tetanus antitoxin heretofore acquired, purchased, used and administered, and the acts and proceedings of all public officers in connection therewith, and the payment of all public funds necessary to procure and administer the same, when done in good faith and in compliance with the purposes of this act are hereby declared legal, valid and binding.

This section amends section 7626 Revision of 1914.

[Acts 1919, p. 471. In force May 15, 1919.]

7628a. Appeals from state board of health.-1. An appeal shall hereafter lie from all decisions of the State Board of Health of Indiana

in any matter involving the building, changing or condemnation of any school building in the State of Indiana. Said appeal may be taken by any township trustee, board of school trustees or board of school commissioners, or by any member of any township advisory board, or by ten (10) or more residents and taxpayers of any township, town or city where said matter involving the building, changing or condemnation of such school building occurred; and said appeal may be taken to any circuit or superior court of the county where such township is located and final appeal therefrom may be had to any court of last resort in the State of Indiana. Said appeal shall be taken in the name or names of the person or persons taking same, or in the name of the officer taking same. Said appeal shall be perfected by filing in the office of the clerk of the court to which said appeal is taken, within thirty (30) days from the date of final decision by the state board of health so ordering such changing or condemnation or building of such school building, a complaint or petition setting forth the facts complained of. The state board of health of Indiana and in the event said appeal is taken by the residents and taxpayers, as herein provided, or by a member, or members of the township advisory board, the township trustee, board of school commissioners, or board of school trustees shall be named as parties defendant to such cause of action. Notice of the filing and pendency of such appeal shall be made by serving a summons, regularly issued out of said court where same is pending, on the secretary of the state board of health of Indiana, at least ten (10) days prior to the hearing of said cause, and thereafter said appeal shall be tried as other civil causes are tried in the State of Indiana. Provided, That if appeal be taken by private citizens, bond approved by the court shall be given to cover costs and reasonable attorney's fees, if such appeal shall not be sustained.

[Acts 1919, p. 151. In force May 15, 1919.]

7637k. Bakeries, sanitation.-1. Any building, or portion of any building, occupied or used as a bakery, wherein is carried on the busi

ness of the production, preparation, storage or display of bread, cakes, pies and other bakery products intended for sale for human consumption, shall be clean, properly lighted, drained and ventilated. Every such bakery shall be provided with adequate plumbing and drainage facilities including suitable wash sinks, toilets and water closets. All toilets and water closets shall be separate and apart from the rooms in which the bakery products are produced or handled. All wash sinks, toilets and water closets shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and shall be in well lighted and ventilated rooms. The floors, walls and ceilings of the rooms in which the dough is mixed and handled or the pastry prepared for baking or in which the bakery products or ingredients of such products are otherwise handled or stored, shall be kept and maintained in a clean, wholesome and sanitary condition. All openings into such rooms, including windows and doors, shall be properly screened or otherwise protected to exclude flies. No working rooms shall be used for purposes other than those directly connected with the preparing, baking, storage and handling of food, and shall not be used as washing, sleeping, or living rooms, and shall, at all times, be separate and closed from any living or sleeping rooms. Rooms shall be provided for the changing and hanging of wearing apparel apart and separate from such work rooms; and such rooms, as so provided for the changing and hanging of wearing apparel, shall be kept clean at all times.

76371. State board of health, rules, inspection, appeal.-2. The Indiana state board of health shall make all necessary rules for carrying into effect the foregoing section and for the enforcement of the provisions thereof. If after inspection, such board shall find that any bakery is being operated in violation of the provisions hereof, notice in writing shall be given to the proprietor wherein shall be stated the particulars in which such bakery is not being properly conducted, and fixing a reasonable time, not less than thirty days, in which such conditions shall be remedied. If the requirements of such notice shall not be complied with, said board shall order such bakery closed and it is hereby empowered to take all necessary steps to enforce such order; Provided, That if any person, firm or corporation shall feel aggrieved by any order of said board, it shall have the right to appeal to the circuit or superior court in the county in which is located said bakery, Provided further That on the taking of said appeal the owner or operator of said bakery shall furnish bond to the approval of the board and Provided further That said appeal shall be taken within a period of thirty (30) days from the order of said board.

7637m. Cleanliness, precautions, health certificate.-3. No employe or other person shall sit or lie upon any of the tables, benches,