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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    Buildings to be connected with sewer, when. 1890, 132, § 1. Penalty. 1890,132, § 1. [Chap. 132.] An Act to provide for connecting buildings with public SEWERS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. Every building situated on a public or private street, court or passageway, in which there is a public sewer, shall, when required by the board of health of the city or town in which it stands, be connected by a good and sufficient partic- ular drain with such public sewer. Section 2. Any person owning, leasing or maintaining any building not connected with a public sewer as provided in the preceding section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars. Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved March 28, 1890. State board of health to have supervision of streams and ponds used as sources of water supply. 1890, 441, § 1. Complaints as to pollution. Hearing to be held. Board may pro hibit pollution. [Chap. 441.] An Act in addition to the acts to prevent the pollution of sources of water supply. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. The state board of health shall have the general supervision of all streams and ponds used by a city or town as sources of water supply, with reference to their purity, together with all springs, streams and water-courses tributary thereto; and shall have authority to examine the same from time to time and inquire what pollutions exist and what are their causes. Section 2. Whenever the mayor of a city or the selectmen of a town, using a stream or pond as a source of water supply, complains to said state board of health that manure, excrement, garbage, sewage or any other matter is so deposited, kept or discharged within one hundred feet of the high water mark of any such stream or pond, or any stream, pond, spring or water- course tributary thereto, as to pollute or tend to pollute the waters of such stream, pond, spring or water-course, the said board of health shall appoint a time and place for hearing par- ties to be affected, and give due notice thereof to such parties ; and after such hearing, if in its judgment the public health requires it, may prohibit the deposit, keeping or discharge of any such material as aforesaid, and may order any person to desist therefrom and to remove any such material theretofore