Report of the State Board of Health of Wisconsin ... 1902

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State Board of Health, 1903
 

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Page 14 - ... hermetically sealed, and all enclosed in a strong tight wooden box. Or the body being prepared for shipment by disinfecting and wrapping as above, may be placed in a strong coffin or casket, and said coffin or casket encased in an air-tight zinc, copper or tin case, all joints and seams hermetically sealed and all enclosed in a strong outside wooden box.
Page 16 - Every disinterred body, dead from any disease or cause, shall be treated as infectious...
Page 108 - Annual Meeting of the Conference of State and Provincial Boards of Health of North America will be held in Detroit, Michigan, August 9, 10, and n, 1898. The " Quarter Centennial Celebration of the Establishment of the Michigan State Board of Health " will be in progress at the above named time.
Page 169 - As a chain is no stronger than its weakest link, so a water supply must be judged from those conditions that present its worst and most dangerous aspect.
Page 109 - Report relating to the Registry and Return of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, and of Divorce, in the State of Rhole Island, for the year ending December 31, 1899.
Page 25 - ... for the speedy and private interment of the bodies of persons who have died from said diseases ; and, in emergency, for providing those sick with said diseases with necessary medical aid and with temporary hospitals for their accommodation and for the accommodation of their nurses and attendants.
Page 13 - Fever, Typhoid Fever, Erysipelas, Measles and other contagious, infectious or communicable diseases must be wrapped in a sheet thoroughly saturated with a strong solution of bi-chloride of mercury, in the proportion of one ounce of bi-chloride of mercury to a gallon of water; and encased in an air-tight zinc, tin, copper or lead [lined] coffin, or.
Page 95 - That when, in the opinion of the Surgeon-General of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States, the interests of the public health would be promoted by a conference of said service with State or Territorial Boards of Health, quarantine authorities, or State Health Officers, the District of Columbia included...
Page 95 - Service, after the annual conference required by section seven to be called, to prepare and distribute suitable and necessary forms for the collection and compilation of such statistics* and said statistics, when transmitted to the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Bureau on said forms, shall be compiled and published by the Public Health and MarineHospital Service as a part of the "health reports published by said service.
Page 15 - RULE 4. The bodies of persons dead of diseases that are not contagious, infectious, or communicable, may be received for transportation to local points in same state ; when encased in a sound coffin or metallic case, and enclosed in a strong wooden box. securely fastened so it may be safely handled. But when it is proposed to transport them out of the State...

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