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brick and marble structure and was given by Mr. William H. Herri- 

 man in memory of his wife. Mr. Herriman donated $100,000 for 

 this purpose, $25,000 of which will be used as an endowment fund. 

 — Messrs. Jacob H. Schiff, Sei. R. Guggenheim, Ferdinand Sulz- 

 berger and Samuel Sach have each given $50,000 to a fund for the 

 construction of a private hospital for persons suffering f rom chronic 

 diseases, to be built by the Montefiore Home, in the Bronx, New 

 York City. — The Medical Faculty of the University of Utah is re- 

 questing the Regents of the University to ask the Legislature for a 

 special appropriation of $25,000 for the medical school. It is not 

 generally known that the State of Utah is doing better by its Uni- 

 versity, proportionately, than any other State, in that this Institution 

 receives 28 per cent. of the state's income in taxes. The State of 

 Utah contains about 400,000 inhabitants. 



Acts of Congress. Public Health Service. The following is 

 the text of the act of congress concerning the Public Health Ser- 

 vice : Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

 the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the 

 Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States 

 shall hereafter be known and designated as the Public Health Serv- 

 ice, and all laws pertaining to the Public Health and Marine-Hos- 

 pital Service of the United States shall hereafter apply to the Public 

 Health Service, and all regulations now in force, made in accord- 

 ance with law for the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service 

 of the United States, shall apply to and remain in force as regula- 

 tions of and for the Public Health Service until changed or rescinded. 

 The Public Health Service may study and investigate the diseases 

 of men and conditions influencing the propagation and spread 

 thereof, including sanitation and sewage and the pollution either 

 directly or indirectly of the navigable streams and lakes of the 

 United States, and it may from time to time issue Information in 

 the form of publications for the use of the public. 



'Amendment to the food and drug act. Congress, before ad- 

 journment, passed an amendment to the food and drug act which 

 the President has signed, making it illegal " if its package or label 

 shall bear or contain any Statement, design, or device regarding the 

 curative or therapeutic effects of such article, or any of the ingredi- 



