Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the medical examiner laws, the laws relating to the registration of vital statistics, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relating to the same / prepared by direction of the State Board of Health.

  • Massachusetts.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the medical examiner laws, the laws relating to the registration of vital statistics, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relating to the same / prepared by direction 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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    that a person within his family or house is sick of small-pox, Householder to diphtheria, scarlet fever, or any other infectious or contagious health of case°of disease dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately ease!10UB give notice thereof to the board of health of the city or town in which he dwells, and upon the death, recovery or removal of such person, such of the rooms of said house and such of Certain rooms 1 7 and articles to the articles therein as, in the opinion of the board of health, be disinfected. have been subjected to infection or contagion shall be disin- fected by such householder to the satisfaction of said board of health. Any person neglecting or refusing to comply with Penalty for either of the above provisions shall be punished by a fine not refusal.°r exceeding one hundred dollars. [Approved March 19, 1890. ' [Chap. 124.] An Act providing for the purchase or taking of land by cities and towns for the purification and disposal of SEWAGE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section one of chapter fifty of the Public Statutes is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the words : — Cities and Cities and towns J ° may take land towns may with the approval of the state board of health, for sewage dis- J L L posal. obtained after a public hearing by said board of all parties interested, purchase or take land within their respective limits for the purification and disposal of sewage. Said board shall state board to x j. o glve uotice of give notice of such hearings by publication in such newspapers hearings. and at such times as it may deem proper, — so that said section as amended shall read as follows : — Section 1. The mayor Authorities of ,,, „ ., -i.i i, t • cities and towns and aldermen of a city, and the selectmen or road commis- may make sioners of a town, may lay, make, and maintain all such main terns,'e?c.8ys drains or common sewers, as they adjudge to be necessary for ' the public convenience or the public health, through the lands of any persons or corporations, and may repair the same when- ever it is necessary ; main drains and common sewers so laid shall be the property of the city or town. Cities and towns may with the approval of the state board of health, obtained after a public hearing by said board of all parties interested, purchase or take land within their respective limits for the puri- fication and disposal of sewage. Said board shall give notice of such hearings by publication in such newspapers and at such times as it may deem proper. [Approved March 27, 1890.