Annual Report of the State Board of Health of the State of Maine, Volume 1The Board, 1886 - Maine |
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Page 287 - ... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Page 287 - The havoc of the plague had been far more rapid: but the plague had visited our shores only once or twice within living memory; and the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power...
Page 7 - ... day of December of each year; and the vacancies so created as well as all vacancies occurring otherwise, shall be filled by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Page 17 - The State Board of Health shall have the general supervision of the interests of health and life of the citizens of the State.
Page 8 - ... habits, and circumstances on the health of the people. They shall, when required, or when they deem it best, advise officers of the government, or other State boards, in regard to the location, drainage, water supply, disposal of excreta, heating and ventilation of any public institution or building.
Page 12 - England, three years since, that " the health of the people is the first duty of the statesman.
Page 289 - The smallpox, so fatal, and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox : they make parties...
Page 9 - The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the salary of the secretary, meet the contingent expenses of the office of the secretary and the expenses of the board, and all costs of printing, which together shall not exceed the sum hereby appropriated. Said expenses shall be certified and paid in the same manner as the salary of the secretary.
Page 316 - The mayor and aldermen of any city, and the selectmen of any town, whenever complaint shall be made to them that a breach of the conditions of the bond given by any person appointed under this act has been committed, shall notify the person complained of, and if upon a hearing of the parties it shall appear that any breach has been...
Page 295 - Upwards of six thousand persons have now been inoculated with the virus of cow-pox, and the far greater part of them have since been inoculated with that of smallpox, and exposed to its infection in every rational way that could be devised, without effect.