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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. (Approved January 30, 1904.

VIII.
Acts of 1904, Chapter 87.

RESOLVE RELATIVE TO THE ADULT BLIND.

Resolved, That the governor, with the advice of the council, is hereby authorized and requested to appoint a commission consisting of three persons, one of whom he shall designate as chairman, which commission shall prepare a complete register of the adult blind in the commonwealth between the ages of twenty and sixty years, containing a description of their condition, the muse of their blindness, and their capacity for industrial training. Adult blind persons between the ages of twenty and sixty years who desire to receive industrial training in schools for the blind in other states than Massachusetts may, on the recommendation of the commission and with the approval of the governor and council, be sent to such schools, and their expenses while receiving such training may be paid in whole or in part from the treasury of the commonwealth, with the approval of the governor and council. The commission shall also investigate and report as to the advisability and feasibility of ameliorating the condition of the adult blind by industrial training, the establishment of industrial schools, or by any other means. The commission shall serve without compensation, but it may employ such assistance as may be necessary, and its necessary expenses, including travelling expenses, so far as the same are approved by the governor and council, shall be paid from the treasury of the commonwealth. The commission shall report the result of its investigations to the general court on or before the fifteenth day of January in the year nineteen hundred and five, with such recommendations as it may deem advisable, and shall include in its report the register of the adult blind to be prepared under the provisions of this resolve, a list of the names and ages of all adult blind persons placed in schools for the blind in other states under the authority of this resolve, a statement of the expense to the commonwealth incurred thereby, and, no far as is practicable, of the progress made by every such person in any such school. If the commission shall recommend legislation it shall ac-company its report with the drafts of such bills as may be necessary to carry its recommendations into effect. The total expenditures authorized by this resolve shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars. (Approved May 23, 1904.

IX.
Acts of 1905, Chapter 26.

AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF THE ADULT BLIND AT THEIR HOMES BY THE PERKINS INSTITUTION AND MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to be paid out of the treasury of the commonwealth from the ordinary revenue, to provide for the instruction of the adult blind at their homes by the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, for the year ending on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and five.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. (Approved February 2, 1905.

X.
Acts of 1905, Chapter 251.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO CERTAIN DISEASES OF THE EYES OF INFANTS.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section forty-nine of chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word "contagion," in the ninth line, the words: -- Should one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed, swollen and red, and show an unnatural discharge at any time within two weeks after its birth, it shall be the duty of the nurse, relative or other attendant having charge of such infant to report in writing within six hours thereafter, to the board of health of the city or town in which the parents of the infant reside, the fact that such inflammation, swelling and redness of the eyes and unnatural discharge exist. On receipt of such report, or of notice of the same symptoms given by a physician as provided by the following section, the board of health shall take such immediate action as it may deem necessary in order that blindness may be prevented, -- so as to read as follows: -- Section 49. A householder who knows that a person in his family or house is sick of smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or any other infectious disease dangerous to the public health shall forth-with give notice thereof to the board of health of the city or town in which he dwells. Upon the death, recovery or removal of such person, the householder shall disinfect to the satisfaction of the board such rooms of his house and articles therein, as, in the opinion of the board, have been exposed to infection or contagion. Should one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed, swollen and red, and show an unnatural discharge at any time within two weeks after its birth, it shall be the duty of the nurse, relative or other attendant having charge of such infant to report in writing within six hours thereafter, to the board of health of the city or town in which the parents of the infant reside, the fact that such inflammation, swelling and redness of the eyes and unnatural discharge exist. On receipt of such report, or of notice of the same symptoms given by a physician as provided by the following section, the board of health shall take such immediate action as it may deem necessary in order that blindness may be prevented. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.