Manual of the laws relating to the public health : the powers and duties of boards of health, state inspectors of health, medical examiners and others and to the registration of vital statistics : with decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relative thereto / prepared by the Secretary of the State Board of Health.

Massachusetts

Date:: 1908

Credit: Manual of the laws relating to the public health : the powers and duties of boards of health, state inspectors of health, medical examiners and others and to the registration of vital statistics : with decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relative thereto / prepared by the Secretary 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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vacancies shall be filled by appointment for the residue of the unexpired term. Members of the board shall receive such compensation as the city council may determine. Boards of health in towns shall be chosen as provided in section three hundred and thirty-eight of chapter eleven. 1849, 211, §§ 1, 2. 1877, 133, § 1. 1894,174. 172 Mass. 417. G. S. 26, §2. P. S. 80, §§4,8. 1895, 332. 173 Mass. 338 Organization, Physician, Clerks, Agents, etc. Section 10. Every such board shall organize annually by the choice of one of its number as chairman. It may appoint a plrysician to the board, who shall hold his office during its pleasure, ma}>- choose a clerk who in a city shall not be a member of the board and may employ the necessary officers, agents and assistants to execute the health laws and its regulations. It may fix the salary or other compensation of such physician and of its clerk and other agents and assistants, but the amount of such compensation shall not exceed the appropriation therefor. It ma}r make rules and regulations for its own government and for the government of its officers, agents and assistants. [See also section 13, p. 5.] 1816, 44, §7. G. S.26, §§3, 4. P. S. SO, §§5,6, 9,10. R. S. 21, §§ 3, 4. 1877, 133, §§ 2, 3. 182 Mass. 39. Annual Reports to be made in January. Section 11. In each city such board shall annually, in Januar}T, make a full and comprehensive report to the city council of its acts during the preceding year and of the sanitary condition of the city. It shall also, if the city council or the standing committee thereof on finance so re- quires, send to the auditor, of the city an estimate in detail of the appro- priation required by its department for the next financial year. 1877,133, § 4. P. S. 80, § 11. Town Boards of Health. Revised Laws, 11. Election of Board of Health Optional. H no Board elected, Selectmen shall act. Section 338. A town may elect a board of health consisting of three persons, who shall serve for terms of one, two and three years respec- tively, beginning with the day following the meeting at which they are elected, or until their respective successors are chosen and qualified; and thereafter such town shall, at its annual town meeting, choose one mem- ber of such board who shall hold office for three years from the day following such meeting and until another is chosen and qualified in his stead. If no such board is chosen, the selectmen shall act as a board of health. In every town having more than five thousand inhabitants as determined by the latest national or state census at least one member of the board, unless composed of the selectmen, shall be a physician. 1894, 218; 473, § 1. 1895, 506, §§ 2, 3. 1898, 548, § 334. 194 Mass. 51. Section 3-13. The election of the board of health shall be by ballot-

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