Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Sanitary Officers of the State of New York, Volume 8 |
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Page 108 - State to the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court of the United States...
Page 44 - Laws are capable of enforcement only so far as they are in agreement with the opinions of the community in which they are to be enforced. As opinion changes old laws become obsolete and new standards force their way into the statute books. Laws passed, as they sometimes are, in advance of public opinion ordinarily wait for their enforcement until the progress of opinion has reached recognition of their value. The force of law is in the public opinion which prescribes it.
Page 13 - Every physician shall immediately give notice of every case of infectious and contagious or communicable disease required by the state department of health to be reported .to it, to the health officer of the city, town or village where such disease occurs...
Page 213 - Whenever any infectious or contagious disease, affecting domestic animals shall exist, be brought into or break out in this state the commissioner of agriculture shall take measures to promptly suppress the same, and to prevent such disease from spreading.
Page 13 - Laws of 1908, defines the powers and duties of local health officers and boards of health in the matter of the protection of the people of the State of New York from the disease known as tuberculosis.
Page 79 - A. It is the law of Allah that all should die; some die young and some die old. " Q. What is the annual number of births ? "A. God alone can say; I do not know and hesitate to inquire. " Q. Are the supplies of water sufficient and of good quality ?
Page 161 - ... indicating that the health officer is to be only the executive officer of the local board. But in many cases the local board, on account of lack of time, training and inclination, can see only gross contamination, and while they might be thoroughly aroused by the presence of a healthy chicken drowned in a reservoir, they often view with unconcern and indifference a privy on. the bank of a feeder to the reservoir, actually far more dangerous. Section 71, relating to the inspection by law of a...
Page 12 - Health officers of villages and towns shall report in writing once a month to the state department of health...
Page 259 - I am sure this body will, my personal word of a sense of sincere and lasting loss in Dr. Wheeler's death. I move, Mr. Chairman, that this resolution be spread on the minutes of this meeting and adopted as the sense of this body. Motion was duly seconded and unanimously carried. * DR. COLE: ! We will now call upon Dr. Willard, health officer of Watertown, New York, who will speak about "Antagonistic Educational Authorities.
Page 106 - ... Secretary and Mr. Beagle, be part and empower Dr. Porter to name the other four ; or be they more or less. This committee to investigate and deliberate, formulate and in due time recommend such enactments as their labors will justify it to do. DR. TOTMAN : Any further discussion about these papers? DB. JACK: I simply wish to call your attention to what appears to me to be a mistake or neglect in the matter of the birth certificates. I have filled out a great many of these and all of you have...