Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-01
STATE HOUSE,
May Bulletin Of State
Board Of Health.
Special Orders from Office Of
the Adjutant General.
Smallpox Situation in New Bruins.
wick Well in Hand.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Council,
Wednesday, June IL.

The May Bulletin OF the State Board
OF Health has just been issued from
the office of the board and has been
sent out this week by DR. A. G. Young,
the secretary of the board. The num-
Der contains a large amount of
interesting matter on various subjects
and is valuable addition to its pre-
dCceSsOrS.
In the opening paragraph of the
bulletin the attention Of town clerks is
called to the fact that hereafter the
returns of births, marriages and
deaths to the State registrar must be
made mOnthly-betwecn the 18th and
the 10th of every month town clerks
must send copies of the records made
Dy them III the preceding month
nder this arrangement it will be
absolutely necessary for some persons
who hitherto have been slow to make
reports, to make prompt returns to the
town clerks. The law provides that
reports of births shall be made within
SIX days Of these events and that,
within tWcnty-four hours after a
death. the attending physician shall
make out and have available, ccrtifi-
cate Of the cause of death.
There is also published in the
bulletin Section , of Chapter 1S9 of
the Public Laws Of 1907. which
provides for tn" protection Of the
public against the dangers from the
indiscriminatc distribution of samples
Of medicine, and which reads as
follows:
section >. Any person. firm or
tRrl,,, l.;
servant or agent, or as the servant or
agent of any other person or firm
shall leave, throw, or deposit, or have
in his possession with intent to leave,
throw or deposit upon the doorstep
hall. porch, doorway, vestibuIc, or
premises owned or occupied by
another, any patent or proprietary
medicine or any preparation, pill.
tablet, or drug that contains poison or
other ingredient dclctcriouS to health,
shall bc deemed guilty Of mis-
dcm"aunr and shall be punished by a
fine or not less than twenty nor more
than one thousand dollars or by i'm
prisonmcnt for not less than thirty
days nor more than one year"
Among the other contents of the
number are articles on goats milk,
ccrebro spinal meningitis. and the
science of life saving
Announcements was made yesterday
at tho Office Of the ddiutant general of
the issuance of the following special
orders:
STATE or MAINE.
Adjutant- Generals Office
Augusta, May 81. 1907.
Special orders No. 30
!. The following persona who have
been elected or appointed to offices in
the National Guard Of the State of
Maine are hereby ordered 10 appear
before the Board of Examination con-
v"ncd 10y 6. .. No. .. State of Maine.
a. g. o.. &. s.. at the office Of the
Adjutant General at Augusta. on Tues
day. June 4. 1907. at 1890 O'Clock
4. NJ:
FIRST INFANTRY.
First Sergeant Ralph w. Brown. Go.
II, appointed Battalion QuartermaStcI
and C.mmisSary
Quart"rmastcr Sergeant Albert J.
Sicarns. appointed battalion Quarter
master and Commissary.
SECOND INFANTRY.
First Lieutenant James r. Bagley.
Co. NJ. appointed battalion Quarter
master and CommiSSarY.
Color Sergeant Irwin f. Thomas, an
pointed Battalion QuartcrmaStcr and
CommiSSary.
Ry order Of the COMMUNICATIVE
Chief
AUGUSTUS T.. FARNHAM,
Adjutant General.