HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,
CHAPTER 495.

AN ACT to provide for teaching the study of
Physiology and Hygiene, with special in-
instruction as to the nature and effect of al-
coholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics
upon the human system, in the Public
Schools of the State and Educational Insti-
tutions receiving aid from the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the nature of alco-
holic drinks and narcotics, with special in-
struction as to their effects upon the human
system, in connection with the several divis-
ions of the subject of Physiology and Hygiene,
shall be included in the branches of study
taught in the common schools, and shall be
taught to and studied by all pupils whose ca-

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pacity will admit of it in all departments of
the Public Schools of the State, and in all
Educational Institutions supported wholly
or in part by money from the State; and that
the said study shall be taught to and studied
by said pupils in said schools as thoroughly
and in the same manner as other like branches
are there taught and studied, with text-books
in the hands of pupils where other like
branches are thus studied, and said text-book
must be published, printed and sold in the
State of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That it shall be the
duty of Boards of County School Commission-
ers, and of the Board of Commissioners of

Physiology
and hygiene
in schools.

Public Schools of Baltimore city, County Ex-
aminers, Superintendents of Public Schools of
Baltimore city, and Boards of all Educational
Institutions receiving aid from the State, to
enforce the provisions of section one of this
act in the manner there prescribed.

Duty of
school com -
missioners.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all laws or
parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions
of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved April 7, 1886.

Repealed.