Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Sanitary Officers of the State of New York, Volume 5 |
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Page 22 - All city, town and village officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, shall be elected by the electors of such cities, towns and villages, or of some division thereof, or appointed by such authorities thereof, as the Legislature shall designate for that purpose.
Page 29 - The legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated.
Page 20 - It extends," says another eminent judge, "to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the state ; * * * and persons and property are subjected to all kinds of restraints and burdens in order to secure the general comfort, health and prosperity of the state. Of the perfect right of the legislature to do this no question ever was, or, upon acknowledged general principles, ever can be made, so far as natural persons are concerned.
Page 31 - Every such local board of health shall guard against the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases by the exercise of proper and vigilant medical inspection and control of all persons and things arriving in the municipality from infected places, or which from any cause are liable to communicate contagion. It ! shall require the isolation of all persons and things infected with or exposed...
Page 19 - There are manifold restraints to which every person is necessarily subject for the common good. On any other basis organized society could not exist with safety to its members. Society based on the rule that each one is a law unto himself would soon be confronted with disorder and anarchy.
Page 19 - According to settled principles the police power of a State must be held to embrace, at least, such reasonable regulations established directly by legislative enactment as will protect the public health and the public safety.
Page 28 - No child or person not vaccinated shall be admitted or received into any of the public schools of the state, and the trustees or other officers having the charge, management or control of such schools shall cause this provision of law to be enforced.
Page 83 - ... in New York City. A staff of experts chosen from Chicago, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore was given an appropriation of $10,000. Dr. WH Park, director of the bacteriological laboratory, department of health, New York City, has briefly summarized the results of their work, as follows: "The results obtained by the different workers were in essentials alike. All of us found pneumococci to be present during the winter months in the throat secretions of a large percentage of healthy individuals...
Page 32 - It shall prohibit and prevent all intercourse and communication with or use of infected premises, places and things, and require, and, if necessary, provide the means for the thorough purification and cleansing of the same before general intercourse with the same or use thereof shall be allowed.
Page 23 - Said commission shall also report the present dispositions of sewerage of each municipal corporation and other civil division of the state, and, if necessary, of adjoining states, with special reference to said disposition affecting the various municipal corporations and other civil divisions of the state in relation to the water supply of this state. Said commission shall also report the advisability of, the time required for and the expenses incident to...