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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Acts of 1894, 515, § 2. All children who shall present a certificate signed by a Certain children regular practicing physician that they are unfit subjects for vaccination shall not be subject to the provisions of section nine of chapter forty-seven of the Public Statutes excluding unvaccinated children from public schools, and all children upon such a certificate shall be exempted from the provisions of this act, and the parents and guardians of such children shall not be liable to the penalties im- posed by section one of this act. Acts of 1894, 515, § 3. The board of health in any city or town shall require Boards of health and enforce the vaccination and re-vaccination of all the vaccination, inhabitants thereof whenever in the opinion of said board neglect! the public health or safety requires such action. Every 1855 person over twenty-one years of age, not under guardian- 1894 ship, who neglects to comply with such requirement shall forfeit the sum of five dollars. Acts of 1894,515, §4. The board of health in any city or town shall furnish To provide the means of free vaccination or re-vaccination to all the mean8' inhabitants thereof whenever in the opinion of said board -, cQz. the public safety requires it. Acts of 1894, 515, § 5. Incorporated manufacturing companies, superintendents inmates of of almshouses, state reform schools, industrial schools, etc.,0tob'e lunatic hospitals, and other places where the poor or sick vacciDated- are received, masters of houses of correction, jailers, A Sq]l keepers of prisons, the warden of the state prison, and superintendents or officers of all other institutions sup- ported or aided by the state, shall, at the expense of their respective establishments or institutions, cause all the in- mates thereof to be vaccinated or re-vaccinated whenever in the opinion of the board of health, in the city or town in which such establishments or institutions are situated, ' the health of the inmates thereof or the public safety require such action.

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