+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | TIME ALLOWED FOR READING. | | | | This book is issued for 15 days and must be returned on or before | | the date last stamped below. If kept beyond that date, a fine of one | | penny per week or part of a week will be incurred. | | | +----------------------+-----------------------+-----------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No person shall take out of any library any book for use in any | | house in which there is a person suffering from infectious disease, | | and no person shall return to any such library any book which has | | been exposed to infection from any infectious disease, but shall at | | once give notice to the Medical Officer of Health that it has been | | exposed to infection and leave the book at the office of the Medical | | Officer of Health or hand it over to any Sanitary Inspector acting | | on his behalf, who shall cause the same to be disinfected and then | | returned to the Library, or destroyed. | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ FIG. 65.--Book Label for Dates (Section 219). =221.= The STAMPING and CUTTING of the leaves of new books is the next step in the preparation of books for public use, and as regards the latter it is necessary to insist that the leaves should be cut close into the backs of the books, and not left uncut to within half or quarter an inch of the back, so that an ugly tear is made whenever the book is fully opened. A half-cut book is an abomination not to be endured.