practice of nursing and who have had six years' experience in the practice of nursing in a general hospital prior to nineteen hundred and three, who make application in writing for such certificate prior to July first, nineteen hundred and thirteen. amended by chapter 390 of the Laws of 1913.)

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§ 253. Violations of this article. Any violation of this article shall be a misdemeanor. When any prosecution under this article is made on the complaint of the New York state nurses' association, the certificate of incorporation of which was filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state on the second day of April, nineteen hundred and two, the fines collected shall be paid to said association and any excess in the amount of fines so paid over the expenses incurred by said association in enforcing the provisions of this article shall be paid at the end of each year to the treasurer of the state of New York.

Special Rules Relating to the Registration of Nurses.

The following are the rules of the State Education Department, relating to training schools for nurses:

Incorporation. The training school for nurses or the institution of which it is a department must be incorporated and will be inspected by the Education Department upon receiving its formal application for registration, showing that it possesses the minimum requirements.

Hospital facilities. For registration, a nurses training school must be connected with a hospital (or sanatorium) having not less than 50 beds and a daily average of 30 patients. Each bed must meet the requirements of the State Board of Charities as to air space. The hospital should provide experience in the following departments of nursing: medical, surgical, obstetrical, and pediatric. Training schools connected with hospitals not providing adequate opportunities for experience in all of the above departments must become affiliated with institutions approved as giving such experience.

Preliminary education. All such training schools registered by the Regents of the University shall require of all applicants for admission credentials showing that they have had at least a course of one year in a secondary school or its equivalent. Evidence of such training in the case of every pupil admitted must be filed with the Education Department as a basis for the recognition of such pupil as a member of the training school.

Preparation for State examination. Training schools for nurses registered by the Regents shall provide practical and theoretical instruction, approved as adequate, in the following branches of nursing: medical nursing, surgical nursing including gynecology and operative technic, obstetrical nur.ing, nursing in

children's diseases,1 elementary anatomy and physiology, elementary bacteriology, elementary materia medica, dietetics, and a thorough course of theoretical instruction in contagious nursing accompanied by practical experience when possible.

Training schools for male nurses shall provide instruction in genito-urinary branches instead of gynecological and obstetrical nursing.

Faculty. The faculty must include a principal or superintendent and two or more assistants, one of whom shall be in charge at night. There should be a staff of paid lecturers and instructors. In schools limited to a two-year course graduate nurses should be placed in charge of departments and wards.

The principal of the school should be a registered nurse with executive experience in training school methods and management. The assistants and all graduate nurses holding permanent positions in the school should be registered nurses.

Professional education. Schools of nursing to be registered by the Regents must be prepared to provide the following opportunities for their pupils: a preliminary course of instruction and probation of not less than four months during which term the pupils receive the theoretical and practical instruction necessary before undertaking any actual nursing in the wards. The schedule as outlined provides for two hours or more of theory daily and from four to six hours in the wards or other departments for demonstration and instruction in household and hospital economics and nursing technic. Institutions unable to provide properly equipped laboratories for instruction in bacteriology, chemistry, dietetics, drugs, etc., should arrange for such courses in some college or technical school in the vicinity. The period of instruction in the training school shall not be less than two full years after the pupil is regularly admitted to the school. Experience must be given in the different services specified in the Regents Rules together with lectures, clinical instruction at the bedside, and recitations in conjunction with these services as outlined in the schedule and for a term not less than specified in the "Division of services."

The question of accepting as adequate the experience in the different services offered by any institution will be determined by the construction, arrangement, equipment and administration of the departments; the clinical material and the teaching force.

In order that the pupils may have due time for rest, recreation and study, the hours on duty should not exceed 56 weekly. Institutions giving a threeyear course should provide the additional experience in at least two of the special services as outlined in the "Division of the service for the three-year course." Training schools may not place their pupils on special cases in the hospital until they have completed their first year nor for a period exceeding three months during the course. Those schools maintaining a three-year course may not permit pupils to nurse private cases outside of the hospital for a period exceeding three months in the third year.

Those desiring further information relative to the establishment of training schools for nurses, should make application to the State Department of Education, Albany, N. Y., for a copy of the bulletin, entitled: "Course of Study and Syllabus for Guidance of Nurse Training Schools."

1 In the State Hospital Schools, the thorough training and experience gained in care and nursing of the insane are accepted instead of the nursing of sick chilrden required of other schools. Theoretical instruction and the examination for regis tration in this branch are, however, required.

ARTICLE 16.

Preservation of Life and Health; Cadavers for Medical and Surgical Study.

§ 313. Examination and quarantine of children admitted to institutions for orphan, destitute or vagrant children or juvenile delinquents. Every institution in this state, incorporated for the express purpose of receiving or caring for orphan, vagrant or destitute children or juvenile delinquents, except hospitals, shall have attached thereto a regular physician of its selection duly licensed under the laws of the state and in good professional standing whose name and address shall be kept posted conspicuously within such institution near its main entrance. The words "juvenile delinquents" here used shall include all children whose commitment to an institution is authorized by the penal law. The officer of every such institution upon receiving a child therein, by commitment or otherwise, shall, before admitting it to contact with the other inmates, cause it to be examined by such physician, and a written certificate to be given by him, stating whether the child has diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough or any other contagious or infectious disease, especially of the eyes and skin, which might be communicated to other inmates and specifying the physical and mental condition of the child, the presence of any indication of hereditary or other constitutional disease, and any deformity or abnormal condition found upon the examination to exist. No child shall be so admitted until such certificate shall have been furnished, which shall be filed with the commitment or other papers on record in the case, by the officers of the institution, who shall, on receiving such child, place it in strict quarantine thereafter from the other inmates, until discharged from such quarantine by such physician, who shall thereupon indorse upon the certificate the length of quarantine and the date of discharge therefrom.

§ 314. Monthly examination of inmates and reports. Such physician shall at least once a month thoroughly examine and inspect the entire institution, and report in writing, in such form as may be approved by the state board of health, to the board of managers or directors of the institution, and to the local board of the district or place where the institution is situated, its condition, especially as to its plumbing, sinks, water-closets, urinals, privies, dormitories, the physical condition of the chil dren, the existence of any contagious or infectious disease, particularly of the eyes or skin, their food, clothing and cleanliness, and whether the officers of the institution have provided proper and sufficient nurses, orderlies, and other attendants of proper capacity to attend to such children, to secure to them due and proper care and attention as to their personal cleanliness and health, with such recommendations for the improvement thereof as he may deem proper. Such boards of health shall immediately investigate any complaint against the management of the institution or of the existence of anything therein dangerous to life or health, and, if proven to be well founded, shall cause the evil to be remedied without delay.

§ 315. Beds; ventilation. The beds in every dormitory in such institution shall be separated by a passageway of not less than two feet in width, and so arranged that under each the air shall freely circulate and there shall be adequate ventilation of each bed, and such dormitory shall be furnished with such means of ventilation as the local board of health shall prescribe. In every dormitory six hundred cubic feet of air space shall be provided and allowed for each bed or occupant, and no more beds or occupants shall be permitted than are thus provided for, unless free and adequate means of ventilation exist approved by the local board of health, and a special permit in writing therefor be granted by such board, specifying the number of beds or cubic air space which shall, under special circumstances, be allowed, which permit shall be kept conspicuously posted in such dormitory. The physi

cian of the institution shall immediately notify in writing the local board of health and the board of managers or directors of the institution of any violation of any provision of this section.

§ 316. Cadavers. The persons having lawful control and management of any hospital, prison, asylum, morgue or other receptacle for corpses not interred, and every undertaker or other person having in his lawful possession any such corpse for keeping or burial may deliver and he is required to deliver, under the conditions specified in this section, every such corpse in their or his possession, charge, custody or control, not placed therein by relatives or friends in the usual manner for keeping or burial, to the medical colleges and universities of the state authorized by law to confer the degree of doctor of medicine and to all other colleges or schools incorporated under the laws of the state for the purpose of teaching medicine, anatomy or surgery to those on whom the degree of doctor of medicine has been conferred, and to any university of the state having a medical preparatory or medical post-graduate course of instruction. No corpse, shall be so delivered or received if desired for interment by relatives or friends within forty-eight hours after death, or if known to have relatives or friends without the assent of such relatives or friends; or of a person who shall have expressed a desire in his last illness that his body be interred, but the same shall be buried in the usual If the remains of any person so delivered or received shall be subsequently claimed by any relative or friend, they shall be given up to such relative or friend for interment. Any person claiming any corpse or remains for interment as provided in this section, may be required by the persons, college, school or university or officer or agent thereof, in whose possession, charge or custody the same may be, to present an affidavit stating that he is such relative or friend, and the facts and circumstances upon which the claim that he is such relative or friend is based, the expense of which affidavit shall be paid by the persons requiring it. If such person shall refuse to make such affidavit, such corpse or remains

manner.