Biennial Report, Volume 14

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News & Observer, State Printers, 1913 - Public health
 

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Page 15 - Interest of the public health, every person, company, or municipal corporation or agency thereof selling water to the public for drinking and household purposes shall take every reasonable precaution to protect from contamination and assure the healthfulness of such water, and any provisions in any charters heretofore granted to such persons, companies, or municipal corporations in conflict with the provisions of this section are hereby repealed.
Page 14 - States of competent jurisdiction in the district in which such offense was committed, shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars.
Page 11 - He shall, through the county press, public addresses, and in every available way, endeavor to educate the people of his county to set a higher value on health, and to adopt such public and private measures as will tend to a greater conservation of life.
Page 16 - It shall from time to time consult with and advise the authorities of cities and towns, or with corporations, firms or individuals either already having or intending to introduce systems of water supply, drainage or sewerage, as to the most appropriate source of supply, the best practicable method of assuring the purity thereof or of disposing of their drainage or sewage...
Page 17 - ... to be furnished by the secretary of the State board of health. The said sanitary inspector shall give in person to the head of each household on said watershed or, in his absence, to some member of said household, the necessary directions for the proper sanitary care of his premises. It shall further be the duty of said inspector to deliver to each family residing on the watershed such literature on pertinent sanitary subjects as may be supplied him by the municipal health officer or by the secretary...
Page 58 - Governor of Indiana: The State Board of Health herewith respectfully presents its twenty-fourth annual report, wherein is reported the transactions of the Board, an account of expenditures, and an account of the work done in the State Laboratory of Hygiene, for the year ending October 31, 1905. The report also contains the vital statistics for the calendar year ending December 31, 1905. MEETINGS OF THE BOARD. The four regular quarterly meetings of the Board were held in their respective quarterly...
Page 8 - ... of all State institutions, and shall direct the attention of the State to such sanitary matters as in their judgment affect the industries, prosperity, health and lives of the people of the State. They shall make an inspection once in each year, and at such other times as they may be requested to do so by the State Board of Charities, of all public institutions...
Page 21 - The result of said analyses shall be immediately forwarded by mail to the person, firm, corporation, or municipality selling the water so analyzed. When upon subsequent analyses the water shall be found no longer dangerous to health, a certificate thereof shall be furnished the person, firm, corporation, or municipality offering the said water for sale, and publication of the fact shall be made in the said monthly bulletin: Provided, That this act shall not...
Page 16 - Act, the treasurer or other person neglecting or refusing shall be liable to a penalty of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court...
Page 57 - An Act defining 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 Michigan from the disease known as tuberculosis.

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