Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the powers and duties of the medical examiners, and the registration of vital statistics : with references to the decisions of the Supreme court of Massachusetts on the same / prepared at the direction of the State board of health.

Massachusetts

Date:: 1897

Credit: Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the powers and duties of the medical examiners, and the registration of vital statistics : with references to the decisions of the Supreme court of Massachusetts on the same / prepared at the 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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building, and in like proportion for a portion of a month; and the supreme judicial court in term time or vacation may issue an injunction to prevent such occupancy or use. P. S., 80, §74. Physicians, etc., When a hospital is established, as provided in section in hospital, x subject to board seventy, the physician, nurses, attendants, the persons sick therein, and all persons approaching or coming within the limits thereof, and all furniture and other articles used or brought there, shall be subject to such regulations as may be made by the board of health or the committee appointed for that purpose. of health 1792 If dangerous disease breaks out, board to provide hos- pital, etc. 1701 1837 1848 P. S-, 80, § 75. When a disease dangerous to the public health breaks out in a town, the board shall immediately provide such hospital or place of reception for the sick and infected as is judged best for their accommodation and the safety of the inhabitants, which shall be subject to the regulations of the board ; and the board may cause any sick and in- fected person to be removed thereto, unless his condition will not admit of his removal without danger to his health, in which case the house or place where he re- mains shall be considered as a hospital, and all persons residing in or in any way concerned within the same shall be subject to the regulations of the board as before pro- vided. [See cases cited and note under Pub. Stats., chap. 80, sect. 40, p. 27.] Selectmen to give notice of infected places. 1792 1838 1873 P. S., 80, § 76. When such disease is found to exist in a town, the selectmen and board of health shall use all possible care to prevent the spreading of the infection, and to give public notice of infected places to travellers, by display- ing red flags at proper distances, and by all other means which in their judgment shall be most effectual for the common safety. And whoever obstructs the selectmen, board of health, or its agent, in using such means to pre- vent the spreading of the infection, or wilfully removes, obliterates, defaces, or handles the red flags or other sig- nals so displayed, shall forfeit for each offence not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.

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