venting the spread of the diseases that cause so much trouble when once allowed to get a start. The tests were given as are all the tests, viz, in writing, and are kept in my office as a record for future reference. There is no fee charged for conducting the examinations of applicants for embalmers' licenses. The president of the Territorial Embalmers' Association collects enough from the applicants to cover the expense of conducting the examination, etc., and turns it over to the board, taking its receipt for the same. It is necessary and important that these embalmers should be licensed, as they are a part of the health department when it comes to caring for the public health, and, again, the railroads in Oklahoma will not accept a body for shipment unless it has the number of a licensed embalmer attached. This is as it should be, for if this rule were not strictly adhered to we would soon be in a horrible condition from the shipping of infected bodies from one county to another, besides endangering the health in neighboring States.

The most work falling upon this office seems to come as complaints against doctors who drop (from no one seems to know where) into a town and begin to hustle for business without making any inquiry as to the medical laws. When written to, they either do not answer or move to some other town and do the same thing.

As will be seen by the attached law, the board's powers are very limited. We can only advise those who locate in Oklahoma to practice medicine that we have a law which requires a test before a license can be issued. Should the person refuse under some pretext or another to come before the board, we can only refer the matter to the county attorney of that county, with the request that he push the matter. Usually that is the last ever heard of that complaint. The next man who takes the matter up accuses the board of not doing its duty. There are some two or three county attorneys in Oklahoma who will take these matters up and push them. In all such cases we have been able to punish all violators. Woodward, Woods, Caddo, and Noble counties are examples where the board had the required assistance, and in each case the doctor was punished.

Since the act of 1893, creating a board of health, went into effect. there have been some 3,000 licenses issued, and about 25 per cent of this number did not come to the Territory, as they became registered by diploma, and did so because it was one of the few places in the United States that admitted physicians upon diploma. Some 405 of the 3.000 have moved out, died, or quit the practice of medicine to go into some other kind of business.

The schools represented in the Territory are allopathic, homeopathic, eclectic, and a few physiomedicalists. The allopathic has by far the largest number of practitioners in Oklahoma, possibly 75 per cent. Then comes the eclectics with 20 per cent, the homeopathics and physiomedicalists with a division of the remaining 5 per cent.

AN ACT repealing chapter eight of the statutes of Oklahoma, 1893, establishing a board of health, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma : SECTION 1. There is hereby established a Territorial board of health, composed of three persons, residents of this Territory, regularly practicing and legally qualified physicians in good standing, to be appointed by the governor and approved by the council. The term of office of each member shall be two years, and one member shall be designated by the governor as superintendent,

who shall be ex officio secretary of the board. The board shall elect one of its members as president and the other as vice-president.

SEC. 2. The president, when present, and the vice-president when the president is absent, shall preside at the meeting of the board. The secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the board and of his own proceedings as superintendent of the board of health. The board of health shall hold meetings every three months, due notice of the time and place to be given by the secretary.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the board of health to examine applicants and grant licenses to those found to be qualified and entitled to the same, to quarantine against outside territory known to be infected with contagious or infectious diseases, to condemn and destroy impure and diseased articles of food offered or exposed for sale in the Territory, and to act in conjunction with the county and municipal boards of health.

SEC. 4. The salary of the superintendent of the board of health shall be eight hundred dollars per annum, and he shall be allowed for records, supplies, printing, and traveling expenses actually and necessarily expended not to exceed five hundred dollars per annum, which shall be paid upon sworn itemized statements. The president and vice-president of the board shall receive no compensation except fees for examination of applicants for license to practice medicine and surgery, which shall be equally divided between them, and actual and necessary traveling expenses, not to exceed one hundred dollars each per annum.

SEC. 5. No person hereafter shall practice medicine or surgery in this Territory without first obtaining a license from the Territorial board of health. Application for license shall be made in writing, together with a fee of five dollars, accompanied by a proof of good moral character, and proof of ten years continuous practice, or proof of graduation from a reputable medical college. When the application has been inspected by the board and found to comply with the foregoing provisions, the board shall notify the applicant to appear for examination at a time and place designated in such notice. Examination shall be made in whole or in part in writing and be sufficiently strict to test applicant's qualifications to practice medicine. All members of the board shall be present and participate in such examination. It shall be the duty of the person holding such license to register in the office of the register of deeds, in a book kept for that purpose, in the county in which person resides or intends to practice. Provided, that an osteopath shall not be required to pass an examination in materia medica or therapeutics.

SEC. 6. Any person practicing or offering to practice medicine or surgery in any of their branches, without first having obtained a license from this board, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty days, nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court, and all costs incurred therein.

SEC. 7. The provisions of this act shall not affect the rights of persons now legally practicing medicine, osteopathy, or surgery in this Territory; nor shall it prohibit the application of domestic remedies by one member of a family to another thereof; nor administering of remedies by another in case of emergency, without compensation; nor shall it comply to any commissioned medical officer of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Hospital Service in the discharge of his official duties; nor to any legal qualified dentist, when engaged exclusively in the practice of dentistry; nor to any physician or surgeon from another State or Territory who is a legal practitioner of medicine or surgery in the State or Territory in which he resides, when in actual consultation with a legal practitioner of this Territory, nor to any physician or surgeon residing on the border of a neighboring State or Territory and duly authorized under the law thereof to practice medicine or surgery therein, whose practice extends into the limits of this Territory: Provided, That such practitioner shall not open an office or appoint a place to meet patients or receive calls within the limits of this Territory; nor to any osteopath who shall pass examination in the subject of anatomy, physiology, obstetrics, and physical diagnosis in the same manner as required of other applicants before the Territorial board of health, and who has thereupon received a certificate from the board which, when filed with the register of deeds, as is required in the case of other certificates from the board, shall authorize the holder thereof to practice osteopathy in the Territory of Oklahoma, but shall not permit him to administer drugs nor to perform major surgery.

SEC. 8. The county boards of health shall consist of three persons: A legally qualified physician appointed by the Territorial superintendent, who shall be superintendent and secretary of the county board of health; the chairman of the county commissioners, who shall be president, and a legally qualified physician appointed by the board of county commissioners, who shall be vice-president. The superintendent of county boards of health shall have power to abolish nuisances that are dangerous to the public health, to isolate persons afflicted with dangerous or contagious diseases, and to do such other things with the approval of the board as may be deemed necessary for the preservation of the public health. Such superintendent shall be paid for expenses actually and necessarily contracted in the discharge of his duties, together with fees for duty performed: Provided, That the sum total of such expenses and fees shall not exceed one hundred dollars per annum. Such bills of expense and fees shall be filed with the county clerk and allowed by the board of county commissioners, as other bills are allowed by them: Provided further, That should an emergency exist on account of the prevalence of any dangerous epidemic, such county board of health may make such provisions for the isolation and care of the sick as may be required, by and with the consent and approval of the county commissioners.

SEC. 9. Chapter eight of the statutes of Oklahoma, 1893, together with all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

SEC. 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved, March 12, 1903.

BOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC EXAMINERS.

[Dr. J. A. Price, secretary.]

The board of osteopathic examiners met in Guthrie July 7, 1903, and organized by electing J. M. Rouse, of Oklahoma City, president; J. W. Slade, of Guthrie, treasurer, and J. A. Price, of Perry, secretary.

There have been two regular and two called meetings of the board. Thirty-nine certificates to practice osteopathy had been granted up to June 30, 1904.

Three hundred and ninety dollars have been collected in fees from applicants.

The secretary has been paid a salary of $25 per year. Each member of the board has received $10 per day and necessary expenses while the board was in session.

The science of osteopathy has made a rapid growth in the Territory. A little over four years ago there was but one representative of the school in Oklahoma.

The legislature of 1903 passed an act to regulate the practice of osteopathy and to provide for a Territorial board of osteopathic examiners and prescribing the powers and duties of said board and to license osteopaths to practice in this Territory and to punish persons violating the provisions of this act.

Section 7 of the above-mentioned act states that—

Practitioners of the science or system of treating diseases of the human body, commonly known as osteopathy, shall not be subject to the provisions of the act entitled "An act creating a board of health and regulating the practice of medicine."

OKLAHOMA BOARD OF PHARMACY.

[F. B. Lillie, secretary.]

Applicants desiring to practice this profession in the Territory are required to submit to an examination showing their fitness to compound and dispense drugs. During the past year the board has

held four meetings and 114 candidates have taken the examination. Of these 55 have passed the required general average of 75 per cent and received certificates of registration.

The subjects for examination are pharmacy, chemistry, materia medica, and identification. The candidate must not fall below 50 per cent in any one subject, and must make an average of 75 per cent upon the first three. Identification does not enter into the general average, but must not fall below 50 per cent.

In addition to the written examination, a list of five official crude drugs and five official preparations are submitted to each candidate, who is required to give of the crude drug its official name, synonym, official preparations, habitat, and, if poison, its antidote; of the official preparation, its official name, synonyms, formula, dose, and, if poison, its antidote.

The greater portion of the candidates for registration who have taken the examination are bright active young men who have been learning the drug business by hard knocks in the Oklahoma drug stores and have not had the opportunity to secure a college course in pharmacy.

The record shows that during the last five years, or since the law passed requiring the board to register graduates of the university, there have been 26 certificates of registration issued upon diploma from the pharmacy department of the university.

The work of the pharmacy department of the university is to be commended. Quite a number of the students have taken the examinations of the board at different times, and all have shown thorough knowledge of all the subjects. It has been our experience that the only thing they lack is the practical experience which puts them in touch with the real hard work and business side of pharmacy. This experience should, in part at least, be secured before the student enters school.

The board has undertaken to perform its duties in the enforcement of the law without proceeding to prosecution. This course has been pursued for a reason which, if all understood, we feel sure would be commended. We live in a new country rapidly developing, and we have maintained our pharmacy law since the first legislature by having the good will of the people. To undertake during the growing and developing period of our Territory to enforce the letter of the law would antagonize an element which might and probably would do us irreparable injury in the future.

It is believed that the spirit of the Oklahoma pharmacy law is better enforced in the Territory to-day than in any State in the Union, and the druggists of Oklahoma have the confidence of the people equal to, if not in a greater degree, than will be found in any other section of our country.

There are 434 registered pharmacists, 100 class A permits, 110 class B permits, as compared with July 1, 1903, 394 registered pharmacists, 73 class A permits, 102 class B permits.

OKLAHOMA BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS.

[A. C. Hixon, D. D. S., secretary.]

Persons desiring to practice the profession of dentistry in the Territory are required by law to either file for record a diploma from a

recognized college of dentistry or to pass a satisfactory examination before the board of dental examiners.

Two hundred and forty dentists are licensed to practice in the Territory up to the present time.

The number of dentists registered during the past year is 40. Amount of fees collected during the year, $370. Amount paid out, as per records, for expense of board meetings, etc., $330.

The board has held two meetings during the past year.

The profession has been reasonably protected from quacks and incompetent persons, three prosecutions having been begun during the past year, in two of which the persons left the Territory before trial was held, and the other is now in process of prosecution.

The proportion of graduate dentists to those not holding diplomas was 90 per cent graduates and 10 per cent nongraduates.

The moral and intellectual standard of dentists in Oklahoma will compare favorably with those of any State in the Union.

OKLAHOMA LIVE STOCK SANITARY COMMISSION.

[Thomas Morris, secretary.]

The Oklahoma Live Stock Sanitary Commission was organized for the purpose of protecting the live-stock interests of the Territory by stamping out and preventing contagious diseases and enforcing quarantine regulations. The cattle business being by far the largest livestock industry in the Territory, and Texas or tick fever being the most fatal and formidable disease to cattle, on account of close proximity to the natural habitat of the fever tick, quarantine laws have been enacted and quarantine lines thrown around the Territory to prevent the introduction of southern cattle

No cattle are allowed to come in from the infected area except during two months in the winter season, and then only on close inspection and certification that they are free from infection. The enforcement of these regulations is carried out by duly appointed inspectors. who have supervision over the entire Territory. Wherever infection is found the premises are quarantined to prevent the spread of the disease, and owners of cattle are compelled to disinfect the same to destroy the contagion. Parties bringing in cattle unlawfully are arrested and vigorously prosecuted. The success of the board in securing convictions has had a tendency to discourage such violations, so that southern cattle are seldom brought in contrary to law, and native cattle are reasonably safe in all parts of the Territory.

Itch, or mange, has developed in Beaver and part of Woodward counties, but the board is taking vigorous measures to suppress and cure the same by requiring all affected and exposed animals to be dipped in a preparation of lime and sulphur, prepared according to the formula of the Bureau of Animal Industry. So far there has been no tuberculosis in the Territory.

The Territory also has a law that requires the inspection of all animals the flesh of which is to be sold for food, and none but healthy animals are allowed to be slaughtered. This work is carried on by special inspectors under the control of the commission. All marks or brands of such animals must be recorded. This law insures wholesome meat to the people and also serves as a check to thievery and as a means of identifying stolen stock.