NORTH DAKOTA. [From School Laws of North Dakota, 1901 (page 59).] SEC. 750. Branches to be taught in all schools.-Each teacher in the common schools shall teach pupils, when they are sufficiently advanced to pursue the same. the following branches: Orthography, reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic, language lessons, English grammar, geography, United States history, civil government, physiology, and hygiene, giving special instruction concerning the nature of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics, and their effect upon the human system; physiology and hygiene and the nature of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics, and their effect upon the human system, shall be taught as thoroughly as any branch is taught, by the use of a text-book to all pupils able to use a text-book who have not thoroughly studied that branch, and orally to all other pupils. When such oral instruction is given as herein required, a sufficient time, not less than fifteen minutes, shall be given to such oral instruction for at least four days in each school week. Each teacher in special school districts and in cities organized for school purposes under special law shall conform to and be governed by the provisions of this section. OHIO. [From Ohio School Laws, 1900 (pages 142–3).] (Bates's Ann. O. Stats., Sec. 4020, 23-25.) SEC. 1. (Instruction in the effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics made a regular branch of study.)—The nature of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics, and their effects on the human system, in connection with the various divisions of physiology and hygiene, shall be included in the branches to be regularly taught in the common schools of the State, and in all educational institutions supported wholly or in part by money from the State; and it shall be the duty of boards of education and boards of such educational institutions to make suitable provisions for this instruction in the schools and institutions under their respective jurisdiction, giving definite time and place for this branch in the regular course of study, and to adopt such methods as will adapt the same to the capacity of pupils in the various grades and to corresponding classes as found in ungraded schools; the same tests for promotion shall be required in this as in other branches. SEC. 2. (Instruction required in teachers' institutes and teachers' training schools; teachers' certificate must contain; enforcement of law.)—In all teachers' institutes, also in all normal schools and teachers' training classes which shall hereafter be established by the State, adequate time and attention shall be given to instruction in the best methods of teaching this branch. No certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in the common schools or in any educational institution supported as aforesaid who does not pass a satisfactory examination on this subject and the best methods of teaching the same. It shall be the duty of the State commissioner of common schools to see that the provisions in this section relating to county teachers' institutes, and schools and classes by whatever name hereafter established for training teachers, and the examination of teachers, are carried out; and said commissioner shall each year make full report of the enforcement of said section in connection with his annual report. SEC. 3. (Penalty for failure to enforce law; jurisdiction of courts.)—Any school official, or any employee in any way concerned in the enforcement of the act, who willfully refuses or neglects to provide for or to give the instruction required by this act shall be fined, and shall pay for each offense the sum of twenty-five dollars. Mayors, justices of the peace, and probate judges shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the common pleas court to try the offenses described in this act, and all fines or penalties collected under this act shall be paid into the general county school fund of the county in which such fine or penalty was collected. OKLAHOMA. See District of Columbia. * * * OREGON. [From Oregon School Laws, 1901 (pages 53-4).] TITLE VIII.-School teachers. SEC. 56. 3. It is hereby made the duty of every teacher to give, and of every board of school directors to cause to be given, to all pupils suitable instruction in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system. Such instructions in physiology and hygiene shall be given orally to pupils who are below the fourth grade, and shall be given by the use of text-books to all pupils above the fourth grade, and such instruction shall be given as thoroughly to all pupils as instruction in arithmetic or geography is given. Each teacher of a public school, before leaving the school register with the school clerk, shall certify therein whether instruction has been given in the school or grade presided over by such teacher as required by this act, and no public money shall be paid over to the treasurer of a district unless the register of such district contains a certificate of the teacher that instruction has been given in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system, as required by this act. PENNSYLVANIA. [From The Common School Laws of Pennsylvania, 1901. Act April 2, 1885, secs. 1-3; P. L., p. 7.] CCCVII. That physiology and hygiene, which shall, in each division of the subject so pursued, include special reference to the effect of alcoholic drinks and stimulants and narcotics upon the human system, shall be included in the branches of study now required by law to be taught in the common schools, and shall be introduced and studied as a regular branch by all pupils in all departments of the public schools of the Commonwealth, and in all educational institutions supported wholly or in part by money from the Commonwealth. (Pages 299–300.) CCCVIII. It shall be the duty of county, city, borough superintendents, and boards of all educational institutions receiving aid from the Commonwealth, to report to the superintendent of public instruction any failure or neglect on the part of boards of school directors, boards of school controllers, boards of education, and boards of educational institutions receiving aid from the Commonwealth, to make proper provision in any and all of the schools or districts under their jurisdiction for instruction in physiology and hygiene, which, in each division of the subject so pursued, gives special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system, as required by this act; and such failures on the part of directors, controllers, boards of education, and boards of educational institutions receiving money from the Commonwealth, thus reported or otherwise satisfactorily proven, shall be deemed sufficient cause for withholding the warrant for State appropriation of school money to which such district or educational institution would otherwise be entitled. (Page 301.) CCCIX. No certificate shall be granted any person to teach in the public schools of the Commonwealth or in any of the educational institutions receiving money from the Commonwealth, after the first Monday of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system. (Page 302.) Notes by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 158. Regular daily instruction must be given in physiology and hygiene the same as in other legal branches of study, otherwise the law authorizing and requiring the introduction and study of this branch will not be fairly complied with. 159. Oral instruction, from the necessity of the case, may be given by the teachers in charge of the primary grades of the schools in which the children are too young to make profitable use of text-books on the subject. But suitable books, properly adapted to the age and comprehen sion of the pupil, must be studied by all scholars who are capable of learning in this way. 160. The subject must be systematically studied as well as taught, which can not be done successfully without text-books in the hands of the scholars. The proper preparation of the lessons assigned to the pupils in the daily exercise of the schools makes the use of text-books absolutely necessary, even if the law did not peremptorily require their general introduction, as it does in this instance. 161. It is the duty of directors and controllers to see that the provisions of the law are fully complied with in all departments of the schools under their official jurisdiction, and in the performance of this duty they ought to have the hearty cooperation of the patrons of the schools. (Pages 302-3.) RHODE ISLAND. [From Rhode Island Laws Pertaining to Education, 1900 (page 55).] CHAP. 60, SEC. 7. The school committees of the several towns shall make provision for the instruction of the pupils in all schools supported wholly or in part by public money in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic liquors, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system. SOUTH CAROLINA. [From The School Law of South Carolina, 1901 (page 22).] SEC. 27. It shall be the duty of the county board of education and of the boards of trustees hereinafter provided for to see that in every school under their care there shall be taught, as far as practicable, orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, English grammar, the elements of agriculture, history of the United States and of this State, the principles of the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this State, morals and good behavior, algebra, physiology and hygiene, and especially as to the effects of alcoholic liquors and narcotics upon the human system, English literature, and such other branches as the State board may from time to time direct. SOUTH DAKOTA. [From The Compiled School Laws of South Dakota, 1901 (page 45).] CHAP. VIII, SEC. 14. Branches to be taught.-Instruction shall be given in the common schools of the State in the following branches, in the several grades in which each may be required, viz: Reading, writing, orthography, arithmetic, geography, primary language and English grammar, history of the United States, physiology and hygiene, with special instruction as to the nature of alcoholic drinks and their effects upon the human system, and civil government. TENNESSEE. [From Public School Laws of Tennessee, 1901 (pages 19-20); acts 1895, chap. 180.] SEC. 31. (4) In addition to the branches in which instruction is now given in the public schools of this State, physiology and hygiene, with a special reference to the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and smoking cigarettes, and their effects upon the human system, shall also be taught as thoroughly as other required branches, and shall be made a regular course of study for all pupils in all schools supported entirely or in part by public money. (5) No certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in the public schools of this State after the first of January, 1896, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and cigarette smoking upon the human system. TEXAS. [From School Laws of Texas, 1901.] SEC. 19. All public schools in this State shall be required to have taught in them orthography, reading in English, penmanship, arithmetic, English grammar, modern geography, composition, physiology and hygiene, including the effects of alcoholic stimulants and narcotics on the human system, mental arithmetic, Texas history, United States history and civil government, and other branches as may be agreed on by the trustees or directed by the State superintendent. (Page 9.) [Art. 3909a, R. S., as amended by the 27th Leg.] SEC. 69. An applicant for a third grade certificate shall be examined in spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, English gramınar, geography, Texas history, elementary physiology and hygiene and the laws of health, with special reference to narcotics, and school management and methods of teaching. * (Page 32.) [Art. 3974, R. S., as amended by the 26th Leg.] UTAH. [From School Law of Utah, 1901 (page 32).] Physiology and hygiene. * * CH. VII, SEC. 15. It shall be the duty of all boards of education and trustees in charge of schools and educational institutions supported in whole or in part by public funds to make provision for systematic and regular instruction in physiology and hygiene, including special reference to the effects of stimulants and narcotics upon the human system. VERMONT. [From General Laws of the State of Vermont Relating to Public Instruction, 1895 (page 188).] SEC. 683. * * * Studies. All pupils shall be thoroughly instructed in good behavior, reading, writing, spelling, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, free-hand drawing, the history and Constitution of the United States, and in elementary physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics on the human system, *** VIRGINIA. [From Virginia School Laws, 1901 (pages 60–61).] 97. Subjects to be taught.- * * * In teaching physiology and hygiene approved text-books shall be used, plainly setting forth the effects of alcohol and other narcotics on the human system, and such effects shall be as fully and thoroughly taught as other branches of said last-named subjects. 1899-1900, ch. 132, p. 134.) * * * (Acts WASHINGTON. [From School Laws of the State of Washington, 1901.] Subjects to be taught. SEC. 65. All common schools shall be taught in the English language, and instruction shall be given in the following branches, viz: Reading, penmanship, orthography, written arithmetic, mental arithmetic, geography, English grammar, physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic stimulants and narcotics on the human system, history of the United States, and such other studies as may be prescribed by the State board of education. (Page 48.) Penalties. * * * SEC. 162. Upon complaint in writing being made to any county superintendent by any district clerk, or by any head of family, that the board of directors of the district of which said clerk shall hold his office, or said head of family shall reside, have failed to make provision for the teaching of hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drink, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system, as provided in this act, in the common schools of such district, it shall be the duty of such county superintendent to investigate at once the matter of such complaints, and if found to be true he shall immediately notify the county treasurer of the county in which such school district is located; and after the receipt of such notice it shall be the duty of such county treasurer to refuse to pay any warrants drawn upon him by the board of directors of such district subsequent to the date of such notice and until he shall be notified to do so by such county superintendent. Whenever it shall be made to appear to the said county superintendent, and he shall be satisfied that the board of directors of such district are complying with the provisions of said section of this act, and are causing physiology and hygiene to be taught in the public schools of such district, as herein before provided, he shall notify said county treasurer, and said treasurer shall thereupon honor the warrants of said board of directors. SEC. 163. Any county superintendent of common schools who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of the preceding section shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the State in any court of competent jurisdiction, and the sum recovered shall go into the State school fund; and it shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorneys of the several counties of the State to see that the provisions of this section are enforced. (Pages 89-90.) WEST VIRGINIA. [From The School Law of West Virginia, 1897 (page 17).] Nature and effects of alcoholic drinks must be taught. 11a. I. That the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and special instruction as to their effects upon the human system, in connection with the several divisions of the subject of physiology and hygiene, shall be included in the branches of study taught in the common or public schools, and shall be taught as thoroughly and in the same manner as other like required branches are in said schools, and to all pupils in all said schools throughout the State. Fine for failing to teach. II. It shall be the duty of the proper officer in control of any school described in the foregoing section to enforce the provisions of this act, and any such officer, school director, committee, superintendent, or teacher who shall refuse or neglect |