Manual of the laws relating to the public health : the powers and duties of boards of health, state inspectors of health, medical examiners and others and to the registration of vital statistics : with decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relative thereto / prepared by the Secretary of the State Board of Health.

  • Massachusetts.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Manual of the laws relating to the public health : the powers and duties of boards of health, state inspectors of health, medical examiners and others and to the registration of vital statistics : with decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relative thereto / prepared by the Secretary of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    Acts of 1902, 230. May publish Parts of Annual Report, etc., and Manual of Health Laws. Section 1. The state board of health is hereby authorized to pub- lish for general distribution such parts of its annual report and such other matter as it may deem adapted to promote the interests of the pub- lic health in this Commonwealth: provided, that the expense of such publication is paid out of the appropriation for the general expenses of the board and does not exceed in any one year the sum of five hundred dollars. The board is also authorized to publish not oftener than once in three years, beginning with the year nineteen hundred and two, a manual of the laws relating to boards of health in this Commonwealth, together with such other information upon the same subject as the board may deem expedient, the same to be distributed among the local boards of health throughout the Commonwealth. The cost of such publications shall not exceed five hundred dollars for each edition and shall be paid out of the appropriation for general expenses of the board. Acts of 1902, 272. Shall publish Analyses and Other Information concerning Adulterated Food. Section 1. The state board of health shall cause to be published as often as once each month in the official publication of said board, and also, if in its opinion the public health can be served thereby, may cause to be published in one or more papers in Massachusetts, a certificate of the examination or analysis made by authority of said board during the preceding month of any article of food manufactured or offered for sale in the Commonwealth, which is adulterated within the meaning of chap- ter seventy-five of the Eevised Laws; and said board of health shall also cause to be published, with such certificate of examination, a statement of the trade-mark, brand mark or name, with the name and place of business of the manufacturer, which appear upon the package or box containing such adulterated article, or with the name and place of busi- ness of the wholesale dealer of whom the goods were obtained. LOCAL BOABDS OF HEALTH. City Boakbs of Health. Revised Laws, 75. The Board of Health of a City shaU include One Physician. Section 9. In each city except Boston the board of health shall con- sist of three persons, one of whom shall be a doctor of medicine and no one of whom shall be a member of the city council. Unless a different mode of appointment or election is provided in the city charter,' one member shall annually in January be appointed by the mayor, subject to confirmation by the board of aldermen, for a term of three 3rears next succeeding the first Monday in February, and if appointed under the provisions of this section, may be removed by the mayor for cause, and