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SECTION 2. Section fifty of chapter seventy-five of the Revised Laws is hereby amended by inserting after the word "health," in the third line, the words: -- or if one or both eyes of an infant whom or whose mother he is called to visit become inflamed, swollen and red, and show an un-natural discharge within two weeks after the birth of such infant, -- so as to read as follows: -- Section 50. If a physician knows that a person whom he is called to visit is infected with smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or any other disease dangerous to the public health, or if one or both, eyes of an infant whom or whose mother he is called to visit become inflamed, swollen and red, and show an unnatural discharge within two weeks after the birth of such infant, ho shall immediately give notice thereof in writing over his own signature to the selectmen or board of health of the town; and if he refuses or neglects to give such notice, he shall forfeit not less than fifty or more than two hundred dollars for each offence. (Approved March 31, 1905.

XI.
Acts of 1905, Chapter 1.

RESOLVE TO EXTEND THE TIME WITHIN WHICH REPORT SHALL BE MADE BY THE COMMISSION APPOINTED TO PREPARE A REGISTER OP THE ADULT BLIND AND TO INVESTIGATE AND REPORT AS TO THEIR INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.

Resolved, That the time within which the commission appointed to prepare a complete register of the adult blind and for other purposes, which was constituted by chapter eighty-seven of the resolves of the year nineteen hundred and four, is required to report to the general court is hereby extended until the fifteenth day of January in the year nineteen hundred and six; and the chief of the bureau of labor statistics is hereby empowered and instructed to aid the commission in its preparation of a register of the adult blind by furnishing it, upon its request, with the names, addresses and such other facts concerning the adult blind as may be recorded by the enumerators in taking the decennial census in the year nineteen hundred and five. (Approved January 16, 1905.

XII.
Acts of 1906, Chapter 383.

AN ACT RELATIVE TO COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section one of chapter forty-four of the Revised Laws, as amended by section one of chapter three hundred and twenty of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and five, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "dollars," in the thirty-third line, the words: -- provided, however, that no physical or mental condition which is capable of correction, or which renders the child a fit subject for special instruction at public charge in institutions other than the public day schools, shall avail as a defence under the provisions of this section unless it shall be made to appear that the defendant has employed all reasonable measures for the correction of the condition, or the suitable instruction of the child, -- so as to read as follows: -- Section 1. Every child between seven and fourteen years of age, and every child under sixteen years of age who cannot read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, shall attend some public day school in the city or town in which he resides during the entire time the public day schools are in session, subject to such exceptions as to children, places of attendance and schools as are provided for in section three of chapter forty-two and sections three, five and six of this chapter. The superintendent of schools or, if there is no superintendent of schools, the school committee, or teachers acting under authority of said superintendent or committee, may excuse cases of necessary absence. The attendance of a child upon a public day school shall not be required if he has attended for a like period of time a private day school approved by the school committee of such city or town in accordance with the provisions of the following section, or if he has been otherwise instructed for a like period of time in the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, or if he has already acquired such branches of learning, or if his physical or mental condition is such as to render such attendance inexpedient or impracticable. Every person having under his control a child as described in this section shall cause him to attend school as herein required; and if he fails for five day sessions or ten half day sessions within any period of six months while under such control to cause such child, whose physical or mental condition is not such as to render his attendance at school harmful or impracticable, so to attend school, he shall, upon complaint by a truant officer and conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars: provided, however, that no physical or mental condition which is capable of correction, or which renders the child a fit subject for special instruction at public charge in institutions other than the public day schools, shall avail as a defence under the provisions of this section unless it shall be made to appear that the defendant has employed all reasonable measures for the correction of the condition, or the suitable instruction of the child. Whoever induces or attempts to induce a child to absent himself unlawfully from school, or employs or harbors a child who, while school is in session, is absent unlawfully from school shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, (Approved May 11, 1908.