Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-09

and shall endorse on the applications GER
tificate showing whether or not the appil-
cant is blind, the word blind within the
meaning of this act being construed as
having less than one-tenth vision. He
shall also state, as fully as his knowledge
will permit. the cause of the blindness. or
partial blindness: OF the applicant: ana ana
retained. He shall keep register in
which he shall enter all the facts con-
tanned in each certificate and shall forth
with return said application with his
certificate thereon to the municipal Off
GERS from whom it was received. lie
shall be paid from the municipal treas
ury two dollars for each examination.
Section 6. Section seventeen OF said
chapter one hundred and forty-eight is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Section II. The municipal officers shall
register the name. address. number, ana
the date of examination of each appli-
cant, shall promptly make or cause to be
made careful investigation by personally
interviewing the applicant in his nome
looking up his references, and pursuing
such other sources of information as are
available for the purpose OF determining
the truth of the statements contained IN
the applicat ton; and whether, under all
the circumstances, considering his own re-
sources and the ability of any member
of his family to contribute to his sup
port, the possibility of receiving aid from
other relatives, the possibility Of COM
polling contributions from any person
unQer ODllRdClOn 10 40 81, uIiueI INC pAo-
visions of chapter twenty-nine. Revised
Statutes. and the possibility of the appll-
cant receiving such education or instruc-
ton as will enable him to become at least
partially self-supportins: the applicant IS
in need of benefit under the provisions
of this act. and If so, to what amount
and shall forward the application to the
governor and council with their recon-
mendations endorsed thereon
Section 7. Section eighteen of said
chapter one hundred forty-eight Is hereby
amended to read as follows: .,
Section IS. The governor and council
make such rules and regulations. not In
consistent with law as they deem proper
for carrying out the provisions OF this
act, shall review the evidence submitted
to them under the provisions of the pre-
ceding sections and shall determine what
applicants are entitled to benefits. and
the amount thereof, and the benefit shall
begin on the first day of the month next
succeeding the date on which the decision
Is made: they may at any time require
a REORGANIZATION of any applicant or ap-
plicants: they shall cause warrants to be
drawn upon the trea surer of state, pay
able to said blind persons or their legal
representatives at the close of each regu-
lar quarter thereafter, during the life OF
said persons while they are residents of
this state or until said disability is re-
moved. '-(Approved April !, 1910
CHAPTER 3o1.
An Act additional to Chapter nineteen OF the
Revised Statutes, relating to care and
treatment of certain infections diseases.
Section l. Chapter nineteen of the Revised
Statutes is hereby amended by adding at the
end of said chapter the following sections
namely:
section 1875 1t shall be the duty of every
superintendent, manager or physician in
charge of any State. county or municipal
charitable or correctional institution immedi
atelv to report to the State board of health ev-
of ypnerpal disease the
mates of said institution of which he has
knowledge. 1t shall be the duty of every super.
intcndent, manager or physician in charge of
any State-aided, county or municipality
aided charitable institution to make similar
report to the State board Of health in relation
to inmates of such institution, the cost Of
whose care and treatment is being paid in
whole or in part by the State, by any
county or municipality in the State. Said
report shall be made in the form which may
be required by the rules and regulations OF
the said State board, provided that such rules
and regulations shall not require said reports
to be made in form which will disclose to
the State board of health or 10 any other per
son, except the said superintendent manager
or physician, the identity of the inmate. Said
superintendent, managers and physicians
shall comply with such rules and regulations
as are made by the said State board to pre-
vent the spread OF venereal disease
Section 1876. The reports to the State
board of health prescribed by the preceding
section shall be confidential, and shall not be
accessible to the public nor shall such records
and reports be deemed public records
Section 1927. The State board of health
shall provide at the State laboratory of hy-
giene elsewhere, facilities for the free bac-
THEOLOGICAL examin alton of discharges for the
diagnosis of gonorrhea infections, and shall
also provide at cost vaccine or anti-toXin for
the treatment Of such Infections And said
board shall make at the expense of the State
the Wassermann test for the diagnosis of Sy-
philis. and shall furnish the treatment known
as Salvarsan or other accredited specific
treatment at cost.
Section 1913. The State board of health
shall include in bulletins and circulars dis
tributed by it. information concerning the
diseases covered by the preceding sections
provided that nothing shall be contained in
such bulletins or circulars which will dis
close the identity of the persons suffering
from such venereal disease the identity of
any State aided countyaded municipality
aided charitable institution in which such per-
sons treated or cared for.
Section 129. ANY inmate of any State
county or municipal charitable or correctional
institution. any dependent child supported
partially supported by public funds
afflicted Or suspected of being afflicted with
venereal disease, shall forthwith be placed
under medical treatment and, if in the orin
ion of the attending physician, it is neces-
gioa is rassed Such shall be immed-
ately reported to the State board of health
in accordance with the latters rules and reg
.ulations, provided that such rules and reg
closing the identity of any dependent or de-
linnnent child. and tn" rules and regulations
of the State board of health for the exam
ination. testing and treatment of cases Of
v"nnreal disease shall he faithfully observed
If the sentence te-n, of commitment of an
inmate to any such State. county or munich
pal charitable or correctional institution ex-
pires before such disease is cnred. or if, in
the opinion of the attending physician Of the
institution or of such physician as the au-
thoritieS thereof may consult, his discharge
would be dangerous to the public health he
shall be continued under surh medical treat
ment. care and custody until in tho opinion
Of such physician his DISCHARGE will not en-
danger the public health. The expenses Of
his support and treatment shall be paid hv
the place in which he has pauper settlement
by tho State if hn has no pauper settle
rlent. after notice of the expiration of his
sentence and of his condition to the over
seers of tn" poor of the CITY or town plan-
tation where he residing at the time of
his commitment to the institution
Section 1870. ANY official or person who
shall wilfuv fail. neglect or refuse to per-
form any Of the duties imposed uron him nv
the provisions of this act shall be fined not
more than five hundred dollars or he i'm
priSoned for not NOR" than six months.
Section 1871. For the nurnose of enehlin y
the State board of heplth to carrr ont the
provisions of this act there is hereby appro-
priated for the nineteen hundrnd seven
teen the sum Of four thousand dollars, and
for the year nineteen hundred eighteen, the
sum OF four thousand dollars = Approved
April I, 1919