secutive weeks; and send bill for same to the water commissioners of the village of Plattsburg, in accordance with the following section of law: *Section 70. Rules and regulations of State Board-The State Board of Health may make rules and regulations for the protection from contamination of any or all public supplies of potable waters and their sources within the state. If any such rule or regulation relates to a temporary source or act of contamination, any person violating such rule or regulation shall be liable to prosection for misdemeanor for every such violation, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $200, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both. If any such rule or regulation relates to a permanent source or act of contamination, said board may impose penalties for the violation thereof or the non-compliance therewith, not exceeding $200 for every such violation or non-compliance. Every such rule or regu lation shall be published at least once in each week for six consecutive weeks in at least one newspaper of the county where the waters to which it relates are located. The cost of such publication shall be paid by the corporation or municipality benefited by the protection of the water supply to which the rule or regulation published relates. The affidavit of the printer, publisher or proprietor of the newspaper in which such rule or regulation is published may be filed, with the rule or regulation published, in the county clerk's office of such county, and such affidavit and rule and regulation shall be conclusive evidence of such publication, and of all the facts therein stated in all courts and places." After the rules have been published for six consecutive weeks as required by the above section of law, you will please forward a copy of the rules as published, together with your affidavit, to this office, in order that the same may be filed in the office of the county clerk of your county. Please acknowledge receipt of this. Very respectfully BAXTER T. SMELZER Secretary ALBANY, October 9, 1900 Publisher Plattsburg Republican, Plattsburg, N. Y.; Dear Sir I send you herewith enclosed copy of rules and regulations for the protection from contamination of the public supply of potable waters and their sources for the village of Plattsburg, Clinton county, N. Y., with the request that the same be published in your paper once in each week for six consecutive weeks; and send bill for same to the water commissioners of the village of Plattsburgh, in compliance with the following section of law: "Section 70. Rules and regulations of State Board-The State Board of Health may make rules and regulations for the protection from contamination of any or all public supplies of potable waters and their sources within the state. If any such rule or regulation relates to a temporary source or act of contamination, any person violating such rule or regulation shall be liable to prosecution for misdemeanor for every such violation, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $200, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both. If any such rule or regulation relates to a permanent source or act of contamination, said board may impose penalties for the violation thereof or the non-compliance therewith, not exceeding $200 for every such violation or non-compliance. Every such rule or regu lation shall be published at least once in each week for six consecutive weeks, in at least one newspaper of the county where the waters to which it relates are located. The cost of such publication shall be paid by the corporation or municipality benefited by the protection of the water supply, to which the rule or regulation published relates. The affidavit of the printer, publisher or proprietor of the newspaper in which such rule or regulation is published may be filed, with the rule or regulation published, in the county clerk's office of such county, and such affidavit and rule and regulation shall be conclusive evidence of such publication, and of all the facts therein stated in all courts and places." After the rules have been published for six consecutive weeks as required by the above section of law, you will please forward a copy of the rules as published, together with your affidavit, to this office, in order that the same may be filed in the office of the county clerk of your county. Please acknowledge receipt of this. Very respectfully BAXTER T. SMELZER Secretary ALBANY, December 13, 1900 Hon. CHARLES E. MARTIN, County clerk Clinton county, Plattsburg, N. Y.: Dear Sir Enclosed I send you a copy of the "Rules and regulations for the protection from contamination of the public supply of potable waters and their sources for the village of Plattsburg, Clinton county, N. Y., as approved by the State Board of Health September 20, 1900," together with the affidavit of G. F. Bixby, proprietor of the Plattsburg Republican, to the effect that said rules and regulations had been published in said newspaper once in each week for six weeks successively, commencing on the 13th day of October, 1900; also the affidavit of B. S. Cramer, foreman for the publishers of the Plattsburg Sentinel, to the effect that said rules and regulations were published in said paper once in each week for seven weeks successively, commencing on the 19th day of October, 1900, according to law. The rules and regulations and affidavits are now sent to you for filing in your office in accordance with the provisions of section 70, article 5, of chapter 661, laws of 1893, as amended by chapter 251, laws of 1899. Please acknowledge receipt. Very respectfully BAXTER T. SMELZER Secretary SING SING PRISON Report of examination of the sanitary condition of the state prison at Sing Sing, N. Y., made Saturday, January 18, 1901, by Charles F. Wingate, sanitary engineer. As the result of my examination of the above building includ ing the drainage, ventilation and heating at the request of the Prison association of New York I would report as follows: The prison was established at Sing Sing in 1824. The buildings are old, obsolete in plan and have suffered from years of hard usage. Erected at a time when security was the sole object, but little regard was given to the health and comfort of the inmates. The whole aspect of the cell-structure is dark, grim and forbidding, with massive stone walls that drip with moisture. in foggy weather and are chilly in winter, and windows so deep and so small that the direct rays of the sun seldom enter. As the building extends north and south, one side of the building is entirely shut off from the sun for half of each day; even in the brightest sunshine it is difficult to read in any of the cells. and a twilight gloom prevails which is a constant strain on the eyes. The cells which number 1200 are in six tiers and measure three feet three inches by six feet six inches in height and are seven feet long. The entrance is only 22 inches wide with a heavy iron gating set on the outside of a two-foot wall like the neck of a bottle so that very little light could enter even if there were no outer barrier; but with narrow slits of windows set in a fortress-like wall, some 10 feet distant, only a modicum of light can enter. At one o'clock, at the time of my visit, on a bright cloudless day, the upper cells on the east side occupied by the new arrivals who had been quarantined for fear of smallpox, were so dark that it was just possible to distinguish their inmates through the grated doors. The site of the prison is most unfortunate from a sanitary point. of view and its selection was a gross error of judgment. Professor Parkes tersely remarks regarding the location of camps and barracks" Always chose a spot where there is drainage and into which there is no drainage" But the prison situation has neither of these advantages. Lying in a hollow between a slop ing hillside and the Hudson it receives the surface drainage of the land above while it is built on made ground rising only six feet above tide level. Only one of the structures has a cellar and the subsoil is saturated with moisture rising by capillary attraction and by the rainfall and melted snow. Finally the sewage of the village discharges into the Hudson only a short distance above the prison and tends to pollute the stream and the outer surroundings. The cell structure which measures 60x400 feet and is some 50 feet in height is simply a huge box of masonry set on a polluted soil and containing an inner box of 1200 cells occupied from 4 p. m. until 7 a. m. for sleeping places. Each cell has a capacity of 145 cubic feet of air while in some 150 cells where there are two inmates the air supply amounts to 723 feet per head. This doubling up is necessitated by lack of sufficient accommodation and the constant scraping and whitewashing of all the cells to destroy vermin so that about a hundred cells are vacant all the time. The minimum air space now required in lodging houses, tene. ments, schools, barracks and prisons is from 300 to 600 cubic feet for each person and 1000 to 1400 cubic feet in hospitals. But these figures assume that the air supply is continually replenished and the foul elements removed. To maintain health every adult requires 1000 to 1600 cubic feet of air per hour while the standard allowance for prisoners is 1700 feet per hour. No one would deny a prisoner sufficient food and drink, yet it is no less inhuman to refuse them an ample supply of sunlight and fresh air. Public sentiment would rebel at the thought of con victing a convict to half rations, yet the cubic air space provided for each convict in Sing Sing is less than one-third the |