Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the medical examiner laws, the laws relating to the registration of vital statistics, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relating to the same / prepared by direction of the State Board of Health.

  • Massachusetts
Date:
1890
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Credit: Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the medical examiner laws, the laws relating to the registration of vital statistics, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relating to the same / prepared by direction of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    70. It shall make all necessary investigations and inquiries in ref- erence thereto. (1882, c 263, § 5.) 71. For these purposes it may appoint inspectors, analysts and chemists, who shall be subject to its supervision and removal. (1882, c. 263, § 5.) 72. The said board shall adopt such measures as it may deem necessary to facilitate the enforcement of this act, and shall prepare rules and regulations with regard to the proper methods of collecting and examining drugs and articles of food. (1882, c. 263, § 5.) 73. Said board may expend annually an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. (1882, c. 263, § 5.) 74. Not less than three-fifths of said amount shall be annually expended for the enforcement of the laws against the adulteration of milk and milk products. (1882, c. 263, § 5.) 75. Samples of food or drugs are to be furnished to any officer or agent of the board who applies for the same and offers its value. (1882, c. 263, § 6.) 76. Whoever obstructs such officers is liable to punishment. (1882, c. 263, § 7.) 77. The state board of health shall report annually to the legislature the number of prosecutions made under said chapter, and an itemized account of all money expended in carrying out the provisions thereof. (1884, c. 289, § 2.) 78. An inspector of the state board shall have the same powers and authority conferred upon a city or town inspector by section two of chapter fifty-seven of the Public Statutes with reference to the collec- tion of samples of milk. (1884, c. 289, § 3.) 79. Inspectors of the state board shall have the power and authority conferred upon a city or town inspector by section one of chapter three hundred and eighteen of the acts of eighteen hundred and eighty- six with reference to the collection of samples of milk. They shall also have the power and authority conferred upon inspectors of milk by section twenty of chapter fifty-six of the Public Statutes with refer- ence to the collection of samples of butter, or imitation butter. (1885, c. 352, § 5.) The following statutes relate to certain general duties of the Board which were not included in the preceding digest of laws : — [Pub. Stat., Chap. 4.] Sect. 5. The annual reports which are required by law or custom to be made to the governor and council, to the general court, to the secretary of the commonwealth, or to the governor to be by him trans- mitted to the general court, shall, except when other provision is made, include the year ending on the thirtieth day of September, and be