J26 C. U. C. P. ALUMNI JOURNAL August, 1918 



DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, CITY OF NEW YORK. 



No. 153627. When issued— Oct. 30-1917. Permission is granted to 

 Frederic E. Niece, to conduct and maintain a Diagnostic Lalioratory at 

 101 West 66th St., Boro of Manhattan. Signed by the Secretary. The 

 permit is to be in force until revoked by the Board of Health. It is not 

 transferable. And must be displayed in the place of business. 



I would like to take up this resolution seriatum, and analyze its many virtues, 

 but the time and space consumed in its reading alone will not permit the addition 

 of comments at this time. It is anticipated on the part of the writer, however, 

 tbat the future will see this phase of the resolution discussed at some length, at 

 least after it has been in operation for a while, when it will have begun to make 

 history. It will then be more interesting from all view-points, with the bare facts 

 before us, than the mere assumption, on the part of the writer, at this early stage 

 o'' its existence. 



In the following we have a little different legal phase for diagnostic laborato- 

 ries to comply with, and it also may be regarded as a commendable action. It 

 applies to the handling, use, and transportation of live pathogenic germs. It is 

 undoubtedly the outcome of the alleged use of disease germs for criminal purposes, 

 by an arch criminal in his diabolical scheme to dispose of his many victims pos- 

 sessed of much money. It became a state law under Chapter 411, Laws of 1917, 

 on May 8/1917, with the approval of the Governor: 



Being an Act — as follows — to provide for the registration and su- 

 pervision of laboratories where live pathogenic germs are handled, and 

 to prevent the use of bacteria for criminal purposes, and to eliminate 

 careless methods of transporting live germs. 



Sec. 1— All laboratories and other places where live pathogenic geims 

 are handled or cultivated, shall be registered with the New York de- 

 partment of health, and a registration number shall be issued to each 

 place so registered. Registration and application for this registration 

 number shall be made by the person, firm or corporation in charge of 

 the laboratory or other place where such germs are handled. The regis- 

 tration number shall be valid for one year, at the expiration of which 

 time it may be renewed upon application. 



Sec. 2.— All live pathogenic germs, or cultures of such germs, when 

 given away or sold by a lalioratory or other persons shall bear a label on ; 



the container, showing the registration number of the laboratory, or other 

 person, the name of the person or firm obtaining same, and the destma- 

 tion of the germs, and no person or laboratory shall sell or convey any 

 live germs, or culture to any other person or laboratory without the per- 

 mission of the State Commissioner of Health, providing, however, that 

 nothing herein contained shall apply to places where live pathogenic 

 germs or cultures of such germs are handled for duly organized pubHc 

 health boards or departments and for no other person or institution. 



Sec. 3— A registration fee of one dollar shall be charged to cover the 

 cost of issuing the registration number. 



Sec. 4.— A violation of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor pun- 

 ishable by a fine of two hundred dollars, six months imprisonment or 



both. , , , J 



Sec. 5.— This act shall take effect July first, nineteen hundred and 



seventeen. 



SANITARY CODE. CHAPTER 11, REGULATION 43-a. 

 Distribution of Living Cultures of Disease-Inducing Bacteria. — No 

 person having in his possession the cultures of pathogenic bacteria shall 

 sell or convey such cultures to any person or laboratory unless first ap- 

 proved by the State Commissioner of Health. This enactment shall take 

 effect May 1st, 1916. (Reg. added February 4, 1916). 



