Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - Public health
 

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Page 53 - An act granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine Hospital Service...
Page 158 - Common carriers shall not, under authority of paragraph 8, accept for transportation nor transport in interstate traffic any person suffering from or afflicted with leprosy unless there has been obtained from the Surgeon General of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service or his accredited representative a permit stating that said person may be received under such restrictions as will prevent the spread of the disease, and said restrictions shall be specified in each instance: provided, that,...
Page 20 - River. III. Lake Michigan and the Straits of Mackinac. IV. Lake Huron, St. Clair River, Lake St. Clair, and the Detroit River. V. Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River. By Allan J. McLaughlin.
Page 10 - Service to the more accurate and less cumbersome title, the Public Health Service. The public health functions and duties of the Service were extended. " The Public Health Service may study and investigate the diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof...
Page 9 - Service of the United States shall hereafter apply to the Public Health Service, and all regulations now in force, made in accordance with law for the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of trie United States shall apply to and remain in force as regulations of and for the Public Health Service until changed or rescinded. The Public Health Service may study and investigate the diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof...
Page 2 - An Act To increase the efficiency and change the name of the United States MarineHospital Service.
Page 53 - MORBIDITY REPORTS. In order to make available to the health authorities of the States, Territories, and insular possessions of the United States, for their use and guidance in the protection of their respective communities, information regarding the prevalence and geographic distribution of certain diseases, and the occurrence of outbreaks and epidemics, be it resolved : 1. That the health authorities of the States, Territories, and insular possessions of the United States, including the District...
Page 167 - From points in the States south of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River...
Page 9 - The Public Health Service may study and investigate the diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage and the pollution either directly or indirectly of the navigable streams and lakes of the United States...
Page 158 - Paragraph 11. Any person who presents symptoms of leprosy and who is traveling or who has left the State where he resides, in violation of the above regulations, shall be detained, and if proven to be a leper shall be returned to such State or removed to such Federal quarantine station as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate and the proper health authorities notified.

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