A manual of statutes of Connecticut relating to the public health / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health.

  • Connecticut
Date:
1896
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Credit: A manual of statutes of Connecticut relating to the public health / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    proiecution.. gEC 3 It ghall be tbe duty of the county health officer in each county to prosecute violators of any of the provisions of this act. CHAPTER CCXLVIII. 1893. County and Town Health Officers. county health Sec 1. The iudses of the superior court, at their annual meet- offlcerB. how J © 1 , i,. ffi term'Sfofflra ing in tne year 1894> SUa11 aPPolDt f°l eaCQ county a fleaitn 0m cer. The person so appointed shall be an attorney-at-law, resid-. ing in the county for which he shall be appointed. The eight county health officers first appointed shall be so designated that the term of office of four of them shall expire two years from the date of their appointment, and the term of office of the other four shall expire four years from the date of their appointment. Thereafter, on appointment by the judges of the Superior Court, each county health officer shall hold his office for four years from and after the date of his appointment and until his successor is appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed, and any vacancy whether from removal or other cause, shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term by the governor on nomination by the State Board of Health. To be sworn. Sec. 2. Before entering on the discharge of his duties, each county officer shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties. Their duty and Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of said county health officer to power. J ^ ill cause the execution of the laws relating to public health, and the prevention and abatement of nuisances dangerous to public health, and of the laws relating to the registration of vital statis- tics, and to co-operate with and supervise the workings of the boards of health and health officers within his county ; and he shall have all the powers of a grand juror in each of the several towns within his county, in matters concerning prosecutions for violations of the laws concerning contagious diseases and public health, nuisances injurious to health or life, and violation of the by-laws or ordinances relating to public health and contagious diseases, and for the prevention or removal of nuisances danger- ous to public health, adopted by any incorporated city or borough or any town, and for violation of the laws relating to the regis- tration of vital statistics.
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