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hundred and five, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith 

 are hereby repealed. 



Approved.— The 30th day of March, A. D. 1905. 



SAML. W. PENNYPAOKER. 



No. 68. 



AN ACT 



Providing for necessary medical attention to needy persons who may be in dan- 

 ger of suffering from hydrophobia. 



Section 1. Be it enacted, &c, That in each and every county of this 

 Commonwealth, it shall be the duty of the proper officers of the 

 several poor-districts, in such counties, to provide all needy persons, 

 in their said several districts, who may be bitten by dogs suffering 

 from hydrophobia or rabies, with the proper medical attention to 

 prevent the development of the disease in the person or persons so 

 bitten, which medical attention may include the treatment known 

 as the Pasteur treatment. 



Section 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be and 

 the same are hereby repealed. 



Approved.— The 31st day of March, A. D. 1905. 



SAML. W. PENNYPACKER. 



No. 73. 

 AN ACT 



To amend an act, entitled "An act to establish the State Lave Stock Sanitary 

 Board of Pennsylvania, and to provide for the control and suppression of 

 dangerous, contagious or infectious diseases of domestic animals," approved 

 the twenty-first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and 

 ninety-five; so as to authorize tha State Live Stock Sanitary Board to conduct 

 scientific investigations in relation to the causes, nature, and prevention of 

 diseases of domestic animals. 



Section 1. Be it enacted, &c, That section two of an act, entitled 

 "An act to establish the State Live Stock Sanitary Board of Penn- 

 sylvania, and to provide for the control and suppression of danger- 

 ous, contagious or infectious diseases of domestic animals," approved 

 the twenty-first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hun- 

 dred and ninety-five, which now reads as follows: 



"Section 2. That it shall be the duty of the State Live Stock Sani 

 tary Board to protect the health of the domestic animals of tht 

 State, to determine and employ the most efficient and practical 

 means for the prevention, suppression, control or eradication of 

 dangerous, contagious or infectious diseases among the domestic 



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