The report also includes health laws that were amended in 1908 including admittance of hospital records as evidence in the courts, the use of water to humidify factories, and the emission of smoke called the smoke law. The smoke law is not about smoking cigarettes but “an act relative to the emission of smoke in cities and towns” excluding locomotive engines and pottery kilns.”
The report also contains interesting charts, including a list of headache powders collected by the inspectors of food and drugs. There are statistics on poisonings from the ingredients of some headache preparations. Some of the headache cures mentioned include “Laxacold, a laxative treatment tablet treatment for coughs, colds, grippe, headache and neuralgia”; “Magic Headache Wafers, a sure cure for nearly every form of headache” which is “especially valuable in sick, nervous and periodic headache, brain fag and mental weariness.” These health reports give us insight as to which public health issues were important to this agency in the early 20th century.