Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 37
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, September 28, 1907
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LAW FOR PROTECTION OF HEALTH
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State Health Officer Vested with Far
Reaching Power.
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       The law passed by the 30th legislature on the subject of sanitation vests in the state health officer plenary power to prescribe rules and regulations for the protection of the public health and is the most far reaching measure ever enacted on the subject.
       Acting under and by authority of this law, the state health officer has promulgated rules and regulations covering every phase of the subject, which were effective Sept. 1.  In this connection, County Attorney Connally has prepared a synopsis of the places, houses, etc. to which the regulations refer and also calls attention to the pure food law.  He says:
       "The county attorney begs to call the attention of the following persons to the rules and regulations of the state health department recently promulgated and effective Sept. 1, 1907, regarding proper sanitation, etc., affects and refers to all persons in charge of depots, moving picture shows, opera houses and all other public buildings.
       All persons in charge of hospitals, sanitariums, hotels, boarding houses, restaurants, lunch stands, lodging houses, etc.
       All persons in charge of or owning slaughter houses, meat markets and butcher shops, etc.
       All persons in charge of confectionery stands, bakeries and manufactories of food stuffs.
       All persons in charge of schools (and) churches.
       Attention is also directed to the pure food law and the pharmacy law, which affects all grocers, hotelkeepers, restaurants drug stores, confectionary stands, dairies, ice cream parlors, soda water fountains, saloons and all other places where articles of food or drink are for sale or offered for sale."

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