Sanitary Laws
statutes or regulations for the protection of the public health. Sanitary laws may be divided into two classes: first, those instituted by legislation, providing for quarantine protection, the practice of medicine and conduct in public places. Tenement house laws, regulating the construction of habitations , size of rooms and cubic space per member of families domiciled, also come under this head. The second class includes such ordinances or regulations as govern the disposal of sewage, the regulation or protection of the water supply, conditions under which meat and other foods must be stored and distributed, and the erection of public sanitaria and public baths. It is only within recent years that the prothe teachings of science have demonstrated the possibility of prevention against contagious diseases. It has been legislation of this kind which has practically put an end to violent epidemics, especially of what are generally known and small pox. as the dirt diseases, such as cholera which deals with the preservation of