Board of Drainage Commissioners jurisdiction and control or a joint use and control over such levee, sewer, ditch or drain, so established by it, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between them, such agreement to be reduced to writing, approved by the fiscal court, or other governing body, and the Board of Drainage Commissioners, and recorded upon the minutes of the proceedings of both bodies. The fiscal court, or other governing authority of the county or any city, town or municipality, shall have the right, when in its judgment the public interests and welfare justify it, to make appropriations for the purpose of aiding any drainage, levee or reclamation district, in constructing or keeping in repair any improvement provided for herein, or under the control of the Board of Drainage Commissioners.

§ 58. Whenever any public ditch, sewer or drain, established and constructed under this act, or any pre-existing act, empties into a natural drain, creek or water course, such natural drain, creek or water course from the mouth of such public ditch, or drain to the mouth of such natural drain, creek or water course shall be and is hereby declared to be to all intents and purposes, a public ditch, and subject in the same manner as other public ditches to the supervision and control of the Board of Drainage Commissioners of such drainage, levee or reclamation district.

§ 59. Whenever any obstructions exist in any natural drain, creek or stream, constituting an outlet for any public ditch, as provided in the preceding section, and the removal of such obstruction shall be necessary, in the opinion of the Board of Drainage Commissioners, for the successful operation of such public ditch or drain, the board may have such

obstructions removed, paying the cost thereof out of funds collected from any district, ditch or drain from which it is an outlet, if there is more than one, then the expenses shall be pro rated between them, in such manner as said board shall deem just and equitable.

§ 60. In proceedings pending, commenced under the provisions of Chapter 132 of Acts, of 1912, relating to the drainage of wet lands, the assessments of benefits to lands, railroads, public roads and other property may be appraised as provided in Section sixteen of this act, or under Sections ten, eleven and twelve of said Chapter 132 of Acts of 1912, but in proceedings hereafter commenced, the classification shall not form the basis upon which assessments are made, and the only effect the classification provided for in the form set out in section sixteen of this act, shall be to aid the court to determine the correctness of the appraisements of benefits shown in their report.

$61. If upon the dissolution of any district organized under this act, any money be in the hands of the treasurer, after all liabilities of said district are satisfied, same shall be pro rated to the several tracts and parcels of land, railroads, highways, and other property according to the assessed benefits confirmed by the court in the organization of said district, and when so pro rated, the pro rata share shall be paid to the then owner of such property.

Approved March 26, 1918.

Acts-11

CHAPTER 65.

AN ACT relating to public health, repealing, amending and reenacting Section 2054, 2059, 2060 and 2061 of the Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition of 1915, relating to the State Board of Health, creating bureaus within said board to perform the functions of the existing State Tuberculosis Commission, the Hotel Inspector, the Pure Food and Drug Division of the Agricultural Experiment Station, and for other purposes, creating county and district departments of health and providing and limiting appropriations of the State Board of Health and further defining its powers and duties.

Whereas, accurate official reports from all of the counties in Kentucky for the seven years the vital statistics law has been in operation show a steady average of sixty per cent of sickness and forty-seven per cent of deaths from communicable diseases, which with existing knowledge can and ought to be prevented, more than one-half of this sickness and these deaths occurring in persons in, or just approaching, the most productive period of life, many of them young mothers and fathers; and,

Whereas, official reports to the Judge Advocate General of the United States army during the operation of the recent draft law show that one-third of the young men of Kentucky between the ages of twenty and thirty years have such physical defects as render them unfit for service to our country in time of need; and,

Whereas, ninety-four per cent of these defects are shown to have been remediable by the application of simple methods of preventive treatment; and,

Whereas, many of these young men are as definitely unfitted for effective, productive citizenship as they are for soldiers; and, Whereas, the fiscal condition of the Commonwealth demands that all its affairs shall be conducted with the strictest regard for economy and efficiency and with the use of as few offices and officers as can do the absolutely necessary work; and,

Whereas, most of the functions of government in a democratic Commonwealth should be performed and conducted by the smaller units of the people themselves, and under their immediate supervision; and,

Whereas, this can be done by consolidating all existing activi ties in the State performing health functions, and by codifying the health laws so that all their duties will be imposed on one central authority, in the interest of both efficiency and economy; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

That Sections 2054, 2059, 2060 and 2061 of the Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition of 1915, relating to the State Board of Health, be amended by striking out all of said sections and inserting in lieu thereof such words that each of said sections, respectively, when so amended and re-enacted shall read as follows:

$ 1. That Section 2054 as amended and re-enacted shall read as follows: (1) That the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be found necessary by the State Board of Health, is hereby appropriated for the use of such board to establish and maintain:

a. A bureau of tuberculosis for the study, prevention and treatment of that disease.

b. A bureau of vital statistics, that the causes of sickness and mortality and records of births may be promptly reported, utilized and permanently recorded.

C. A bureau of pure food and drugs, to protect the people from adulterations, substitutions and misbranding, and dangers from these products.

d. A bureau of sanitation, for the practical utilization of health knowledge in preventing and restricting the spread of the communicable diseases and in abating and minimizing the causes of sickness, including venereal diseases, and for the study and control of unsanitary housing, hotel and rooming conditions, and for the protection of the rivers, creeks, water sheds, springs, wells, and the regulation of sewers, household waste and other matters relating to the sources of purity of the water supplies in every section, and the board is empowered

in its rules and regulations to provide for the protection and purification of the same.

e. A bureau of epidemiology and bacteriology to aid in the study, early diagnosis, location and prevention of epidemics and communicable sickness.

f. A bureau of hotel inspection for the inspection of hotels and restaurants of this Commonwealth to determine their sanitary condition, and make such reports and take such action as may be necessary to protect the health and lives of the public under the laws of this Commonwealth and the rules and regulations of the state and local boards of health.

And pay the salaries of its secretary and the heads of these bureaus, who shall be elected for a term of four years, and of such clerks, stenographers, inspectors and other employees as it may find actually necessary, and to pay the traveling and such other expenses of the board as it may find necessary in the proper discharge of its duties; an itemized list of all expenditures under this act to be made in its. report to the General Assembly.

To arrange for an annual school for county and city health officers, at some centrally located place, for systematic instruction in the best practical method for preventing the diseases above named, and other public health work, said school to continue in session at least three days; and it shall be the duty of each city and county health officer to attend and take part in such schools unless prevented by an epidemic in his city or county, or for other reasons satisfactory to the officials conducting the school, and it shall be the duty of each fiscal court or city council to pay the actual necessary expenses incurred by its health officer in attending such schools, upon certificate duly attested by the State Board of Health of actual attendance during the en