Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island. 1895E. L. Freeman, 1897 |
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Albuminoid AMMONIA Apoplexy Apoplexy and Paralysis applicant bacillus Bacteria Colonies Bacteriological Examination Blackstone River Board of Health Bristol County Bronchitis Cancer CAUSES OF DEATH cent certificate Chemical and Bacteriological Clergymen Consumption contagious diseases contamination decedents December diphtheria diploma DIVISIONS divorce Examination of Water Females filter following Table foreign gallons Gratuitous vaccination health officer ice dealers ice supplies January Kent County Kingstown Loss on Ignition Males marriages milk or ice month mortality native Newport County Nitrites NITROGEN November number of deaths parentage Pawtucket Pawtuxet River Percentage person Pettaconsett physician Place of Collection Pneumonia population practice present promotion of public proportion Providence City Providence County public health pumping reported RESIDUE ON EVAPORATION returns of deaths returns of marriages Rhode Island Sanitary inspections scarlatina scarlet fever Secretary sewers South Kingstown Swarts Town Clerk Town Council typhoid fever unhealthy localities unsanitary premises Washington County Whole Number Woonsocket yel'w
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Page 251 - Said returns, after such report is prepared, shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of state, who shall cause the same to be arranged, full alphabetical indices of all the names to be made, and the whole to be bound in volumes of convenient size and carefully preserved in his office.
Page 257 - ... shall be deemed or adjudged to be void, nor shall the validity thereof be in any way affected on account of any want of jurisdiction or authority in such...
Page 264 - The medical examiner may, if he deem it necessary, employ a chemist to aid in the examination of the body, or of substances supposed to have caused or contributed to the death ; and such chemist shall be entitled to such compensation for his services as the medical examiner certifies to be just and reasonable, the same being audited and allowed in the manner hereinafter provided.
Page 36 - State shall have jurisdiction of all offences committed under this section, and all persons found guilty of such offences shall be fined not less than two dollars nor more than ten dollars...
Page 262 - ... and take charge of the same ; and if, on view thereof and personal inquiry into the cause and manner of the death, he deems a further examination necessary, he shall, upon being thereto authorized in writing by the...
Page 254 - No letters of administration or letters testamentary shall be granted by any court of probate, upon the estate of any person, until the death of such person, or the facts from which the same is presumed...
Page 260 - SECTION 1. The governor shall appoint, in each county, able and discreet men, learned in the science of medicine, to be medical examiners in such county. SEC. 2. The number of medical examiners appointed as provided in the preceding section shall be as follows: For the county of Washington five examiners...
Page 207 - To open an office for such purpose, or to announce to the public in any way a readiness to treat the sick or afflicted shall be deemed to engage in the practice of medicine within the meaning of this act.
Page 251 - The town clerks of the several towns, or any person whom the board of aldermen of any city, or the town council of any town may appoint for that purpose, shall...
Page 262 - ... shall then and there carefully reduce, or cause to be reduced, to writing every fact and circumstance tending to show the condition of the body and the cause and manner of death, together with the names and addresses of said witnesses, which record he shall subscribe. Before making such autopsy he shall call the attention of the witnesses to the position and appearance of the body SEC.