Annual Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Pennslyvania, Volume 1; Volume 19, Part 1E. K. Meyers, State Printers, 1904 - Pennsylvania |
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account of small-pox adopted Allegheny county appointed April August Beaver county Benjamin Lee Board of Health borough Butler county Cambria county Carbondale Centre county chairman Chester Circular Clearfield county Clinton county closet Committee on Preventable contagious diseases coun county medical inspector county quarantine officer Crawford county creek Cross Fork deaths Delaware county disinfection district drainage Elk county Embick enforced established Fayette county fumigation Groff hospital infected inspection inspector reported instructions Johnstown July June Lackawanna county Lanesboro Lycoming county Main street Montgomery county motion November nuisance October Penn Pennsylvania Perry county persons Philadelphia physician piggery Pittsburg pollution port Potter county present Public Health quaran quarantine guards regulations sanitary school board Schuylkill county Scranton Secretary September Somerset county suppression of small-pox Surface Susquehanna county Tioga county tion town township typhoid fever vaccination vessel visited Washington county water supply Westmoreland county
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Page 306 - States, and that notwithstanding the quarantine defense this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce the same is demanded in the interest of the public health, the' President shall have power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate and for such period of time as he may deem necessary.
Page 303 - Stales shall be required to obtain from the consul, vice-consul or other consular officer of the United States at the port of departure, or from the medical officer where such officer has been detailed by the President for that purpose, a bill of health, in duplicate, in the form prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury...
Page 303 - Treasury, setting forth the sanitary history and condition of said vessel, and that it has in all respects complied with the rules and regulations in such cases prescribed for securing the best sanitary condition of the said vessel, its cargo, passengers, and crew; and said consular or medical officer is required, before granting such duplicate bill of health, to be satisfied that the matters and things therein stated are true...
Page 300 - Said board shall consist of three competent experts, to be detailed from the Army, the Navy, and the Bureau of Animal Industry by the...
Page 307 - That whenever the proper authorities of a State shall surrender to the United States the use of the buildings and disinfecting apparatus at a State quarantine station, the Secretary of the Treasury shall be authorized to receive them and to pay a reasonable compensation to the State for their use, if in his opinion they are necessary to the United States. 1307. SEC. 9. That the act entitled "An act to prevent the introduction of infectious or contagious diseases into the United States, and to establish...
Page 304 - Treasury, necessary to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States from foreign countries, or into one State or Territory or the District of Columbia from another State or Territory...
Page 312 - States district attorney for such district shall appear on behalf of the United States ; and all such proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with the rules and laws governing cases of seizure of vessels for violation of the revenue laws of the United...
Page 306 - ... and it shall not be lawful for any vessel to enter said port to discharge its cargo, or land its passengers, except upon a certificate of the health officer at such quarantine station certifying that said rules and regulations have in all respects been observed and complied with, as well on his part as on the part of the said vessel and its master, in respect to the same and to its cargo, passengers, and crew...
Page 342 - Act to regulate the sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products in the District of Columbia, to regulate interstate traffic in said articles, and for other purposes,
Page 301 - ... who shall be skilled in laboratory work in its relation to the public health, and not in the regular employment of the government.