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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dangerous to the public health * shall forthwith give notice thereof to the board of health of the city or town in which he dwells. Upon the death, recovery or removal of such person, the householder shall disinfect to the satisfaction of the board such rooms of his house and articles therein as, in the opinion of the board, have been exposed to infection or con- tagion. Should one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed, swollen and red, and show an unnatural discharge at any time within two weeks after its birth, it shall be the duty of the nurse, relative or other at- tendant having charge of such infant to report in writing within six hours thereafter, to the board of health of the city or town in which the parents of the infant reside, the fact that such inflammation, swelling and redness of the eyes and unnatural discharge exist. On receipt of such report, or of notice of the same symptoms given by a physician as provided by the following section, the board of health shall take such immediate action as it may deem necessary in order that blindness may be prevented. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. [Note. — For provisions concerning removal of infected articles and storage or destruction thereof and payment therefor, see sections 86-90, pp. 40, 41.] 1742-3,17, §§ 5, 6. G. S. 26, § 47. 1890,102. 1792, 58, § 7. P. S. 80, § 78. 1905, 251, § 1. R. S. 21, § 43. 1884, 98, § 1. 1907, 480, § 1. Physicians shaU give Immediate Notice of Cases of Dangerous Diseases to Local Authorities. Section 50. If a physician knows that a person whom he is called to visit is infected with smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever or any other dis- ease declared by the state board of health to be dangerous to the public health,1 or if one or both eyes of an infant whom or whose mother he is called to visit become inflamed, swollen and red, and show an unnatural discharge within two weeks after the birth of such infant, he shall im- mediately give notice thereof in writing over his own signature to the selectmen or board of health of the town; and if he refuses or neglects to give such notice, he shall forfeit not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars for each offence. 1827, 129. G. S. 26, § 48. 1884, 98, § 2. 1905, 251, § 1. JR. S. 21, § 44. P. S. 80, § 79. 1891, 188. 1907, 480, § 1. i Diseases declared by the State Board of Health to be dangerous to the public health: At a meeting of the State Board of Health, held Aug. 1,1907, the following diseases were declared to be dangerous to the public health, and hence notifiable under the provisions of the above sections: — Actinomycosis. Leprosy. Tetanus. Varicella. Asiatic cholera. Malignant pustule. Trichinosis. Whooping-cough. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. - Measles. Tuberculosis. Yellow fever. Diphtheria. _ Scarlet fever. - Typhoid fever. Glanders. Smallpox. Typhus fever.

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