DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PROPERTY-Continued.

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The State Board of Health was established by chapter 366, laws of 1876, and consists of seven members, one of whom is appointed annually by the governor, to serve for a period of seven years. The Board, however, elects its own officers, and its organic act provides that if the secretary is elected outside of the appointed members he becomes ex-officio a member of the Board, increasing the number of members to eight.

The Board meets in the months of January and June by legal requirement, and holds such other special meetings as are requested by members, or directed by the president. It has an annual appropriation of $5,500.00 from which all expenses are paid, including all printing, except the printing of its biennial reports. No member of the Board receives any compensation for his services but the Secretary, who is paid an annual salary which is fixed by the board. The actual expenses of members when on duty are paid out of the appropriation.

The law by which the Board was established provides that it shall have a "general supervision of the interests of the health and life of the citizens of the state." and di. rects that "they shall make sanitary investigatio'nand inquiries respecting the causes of disease, especially epidemics, the causes of mortality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions, habits and circumstances, and shall diffuse such information among the people of the state." The law also gave to the Board an advisory relation to all local Boards of Health. Subsequent legislation has made the organization of such Boards obligatory in every town, village and city in the state, and has made it the duty of all physicians to report contagious diseases to such Boards, and of all such Boards to report to the State Board of Health relative to these diseases, and any other facts whenever required. During the year 1891, eleven hundred and forty-five (1,145) of these local Boards reported their full organization to this Board in aocordance with instructions, and through these Boards the State Board of Health has been able to reach nearly every locality in the State.

The Board has charge of all matters relating to general quarantine, and in emergency can make rules and regulations for the protection of the public health, which it is the duty of all local and general officers of the State to respect and enforce.

The Board invites correspondence and co-operation from all citizens of the State who are interested in the object for which it is laboring, to-wit: The prevention of disease. and the preservation of the health and lives of the people.

The State Board of Pharmacy was established by chapter 167, of the laws of 1882, amended in 1885, 1887 and 1895. The Board consists of five members, who are appointed by the governor, for a term of five years.

Members receive five dollars per day for actual service, the secretary receiving no per diem, but a salary. All salaries and expenses are paid from receipts of examination, and dues from the druggists of the state.

The law establishing the Board provides that it shall be the duty of the Board to examine all applications for registration, submitted in proper form; to grant certificates of registration to such persons as may be entitled to the same under provisions of the act; to cause the prosecution of all persons violating its provisions; to report annually to the governor and to the Wisconsin Pharmaceutical Association upon the condition of pharmacy in the state, which said report shall also furnish a record of the proceedings of said Board for the year, as well as the names of all pharmacists registered.

The Board holds meetings for examination of applicants and such other business as pertains to its duties, at least once in three months. Thirty days' notice of such meetings is required to be given.

None but registered pharmacists can conduct a drug store or pharmacy; they must be the principals and managers of the store in all its management; neither can they allow any one not registered to sell medicines or poisons, or dispense physicians' prescriptions, except under their direct supervision.

No examination can be had except at the regular advertised meeting of the Board. No questions or standing of applicants are given out to anyone except to Secretaries of State Board.

Licentiates in pharmacy by examination in other states are registered without further examination.

All pharmacists are required to pay a fee of one dollar per year registration; they are held responsible for quality of all drugs and chemicals or medicines sold or dispensed by them. The average expenses of the Board have been $1,600.00 a year, which has been paid from its own treasury and no funds have ever been drawn from the state. There has been paid to the state, funds from fines amounting to over $2,000, exclusive of costs, in some fifty cases.

The State Board of Dental Examiners was organized under chapter 129, laws of 1885. The board is appointed by the Governor. The expenses of the board are paid out of fees received.

The board meets annually on the third Tuesday in July, at the place selected for meeting of Wisconsin State Dental Society, which place of meeting is selected by the society. The following is a synopsis of the business of the board since its organization.