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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    submitted to the secretary of the commonwealth on or before the fifteenth day of October; and whoever wilfully neglects to make and transmit a report as required by this section shall forfeit ten dollars for each day such neglect continues. Sect. 6. Public officers and boards, and managers of public insti- tutions, shall, in addition to their annual reports, make special reports when the public interests require them. Sect. 7. There shall be printed annually, on or before the assem- bling of the general court, or as soon thereafter as possible, the number of copies of documents and reports specified in the following list, the same to be numbered in a series to be called Public Documents, and distributed as herein provided. Said reports shall be made as brief as may be without omitting any facts or information which the officers or departments making them are required by law to furnish therein, and they shall be transmitted to the general court through the office of the secretary of the commonwealth. No larger number of copies than is herein provided for shall be printed at the expense of the common- wealth, or be paid for out of any contingent fund or out of the earn- ings of any department or institution, where such earnings are the property of the commonwealth; and no bill for printing any larger number shall be approved by the auditor or paid out of any funds belonging to the commonwealth. . . . Report of the state board of health five thousand copies. Sect. 8. Five hundred copies of each of the series of public docu- ments named in the preceding section shall be retained by the state printers for binding in sets ; and the secretary of the commonwealth shall furnish one set, in a bound volume with a brief index, to each city or town in the commonwealth, to be preserved in some public place therein, and one set to such public and other libraries as he in his discretion may select. All public documents, the distribution of which is not otherwise provided for, shall be distributed under direc- tion of the secretary of the commonwealth and of the secretaries or heads of the several boards or departments to which they relate. Sect. 10. Each member of the executive and legislative depart- ment, the clerks of both branches of the general court, and each reporter assigned a seat in either branch, shall be entitled to receive one copy of each of the books named in sections seven and nine. Each member of the general court and the clerks of the two branches shall also be entitled to receive . . . seven additional copies of the report of the state board of health. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF STATISTICS. [Pub. Stat., Chap. 31.] Sect. 17. The secretary of the commonwealth, the secretaries of the boards of agriculture, of education, and of the state board of health, and the chief of the bureau of statistics of labor, shall constitute a board of supervisors of statistics, who shall serve without pay. A member of said board shall be appointed chairman thereof by the gov-