TERRITORIES.

ARIZONA.

Revised Statutes, 1901.

Sec. 2142. Every applicant for a first grade territorial certificate must be examined by written and oral questions in . . . physiology, hygiene, with special reference to the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics and stimulants upon the human system.

Applicants for a second grade certificate shall not be required to pass an examination in algebra or natural philosophy.

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Sec. 2214. Instruction must be given in the following branches, viz. . . . elements of physiology, hygiene, including the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and special instruction as to their effect upon the human system.

NEW MEXICO.

New Mexico has no such law.

OKLAHOMA.

Statutes of Oklahoma.

Sec. 5817. Certificate of the first grade shall certify that a person to whom issued is proficient in, and fully qualified to teach, . . . physiology and hygiene. . . .

Sec. 5818. Certificates of the second grade may be issued to persons . . . able to teach all branches prescribed for first grade certifi

cate.

[All territories are governed by act of Congress given supra.]

Comparative Table of Requirements of Scientific Temperance Laws in the

Comparative Table of Requirements, etc. (continued).

CIRCULAR LETTER USED IN FIRST CANVASS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.1

To School Superintendents, Principals, Teachers, and School Committees of Massachusetts.

Your attention is called to the proposed legislation concerning instruction in physiology and hygiene in the public schools of Massachusetts. The texts are here given of —

(1) The present law.

(2) A bill introduced into the Senate, providing for the greatly increased stringency of the present law, with penalties for non-compliance with the same.

(3) A bill introduced into the House to provide for such instruction in physiology and hygiene as has been concluded by a conference of teachers and physicians to be adapted to promote the cause of temperance and the best welfare of the schools.

Appended is a statement of the grounds of the petition.

The Present Law.

Statutes of 1885, Chapter 332.

Section 1. Physiology and hygiene, which, in both divisions of the subject, shall include special instruction as to the effect of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics on the human system, shall be taught as a regular branch of study to all pupils in all schools supported wholly or in part by public money, except special schools maintained solely for instruction in particular branches, such as drawing, mechanics, art, and like studies. All acts or parts of acts relating to the qualification of teachers in the public schools shall apply to the branch of study prescribed in this act.

Sec. 2. All penalties now fixed for neglect to provide instruction in the branches of study now prescribed by law shall apply to the branch of study prescribed in section 1.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of August, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five.

Bill of Charles L. Morgan and Mary H. Hunt, Senate, No. 41. [To accompany the petition of Charles L. Morgan and Mary H. Hunt for amendment of the law requiring physiology and hygiene to be taught in the public schools so as to more fully define the schools in which it shall be taught, the methods of instruction, and the character of text-books; to provide penalties for non-compliance with the requirements of the law; to provide for the supervision of the in1 See Report, p. 40.

struction; and to provide for the enforcement of the law. Education.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-nine.

To amend the Law requiring Physiology and Hygiene to be taught in the Public Schools.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:Section 1. Section one of chapter three hundred and thirty-two of laws of A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty-five is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

That the nature of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics and their effects on the human system shall be taught in connection with the several divisions of physiology and hygiene, as thoroughly as are other branches, in all schools supported wholly or in part by public money, including all evening common schools, and in all schools connected with reformatory institutions.

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All pupils in the above-mentioned schools below the second year the high schools and above the third year of school work, computing from the beginning of the lowest primary year, or in corresponding classes of ungraded schools, shall be taught and shall study this subject every year from suitable text-books in the hands of all pupils, in not less than three lessons a week for fourteen or more weeks of each year, and must pass the same tests for promotion in this as in other studies.

In all such schools all pupils in the lowest three primary school years, or in corresponding classes in ungraded schools, shall each year be instructed in this subject orally in not less than three lessons a week for ten weeks in each year by teachers using text-books adapted for such oral instruction as a guide and standard.

The text-books in the pupils' hands shall be graded to the capacities of the fourth year, intermediate, grammar, and high school pupils, or to corresponding classes in ungraded schools.

For students below high school grade such text-books shall give at least one fifth their space, and for students of high school grade, shall give not less than twenty pages to the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics. The pages on this subject, in a separate chapter at the end of the book, shall not be counted in determining the minimum. No text-book on physiology not conforming to this act shall be used in any public school except so long as may be necessary to fulfill the conditions of any legal adoption existing at the time of the passage of this act.