Small-pox : its prevention, restriction, and suppression / published by the Illinois State Board of Health.

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[1907]
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Credit: Small-pox : its prevention, restriction, and suppression / published by the Illinois 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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    proceedings instituted by the State Board of Health for violation of their rules and regulations shall be instituted by the Board or by their executive officer, and it shall be the duty of the State's Attorney in each county to prosecute all persons in his county violating or refusing to obey the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health. All fines or judgments col- lected or received shall be' paid over to the State Treasurer and credited to the fund created for the support of the State Board of Health. POWERS OF CITY COUNCILS IN CITIES AND PRESIDENTS AND BOARDS OF TRUS- TEES IN VILLAGES INCORPORATED UNDER THE GENERAL LAW [Chapter 24, Section 62.] (Extracts.) Seventy-fifth—-To declare what shall be a nuisance, and to abate the'same; and to impose fines upon parties who may create, continue or suffer nui- sances to exist. Seventy-sixth—To appoint a board of health, and prescribe its powers and duties. Seventy-eighth—To do all acts, make all regulations which may be neces- sary or expedient for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease. Eighty-first—To direct the location and regulate the management and con- struction of packing houses, renderies, tallow chandleries, bone factories, soap factories and tanneries, within the limits of the city or village, and within the distance of one mile without the city or village limits. Eighty-third—To prohibit any offensive or unwholesome business or estab- lishment within or within one mile of the limits of the corporation. Eighty-fourth—To compel the owner of any grocery, cellar, soap or tallow chandlery, tannery, stable, pig sty, privy, sewer or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, abate or remove the same, and to regu- late the location thereof. Ninety-sixth—To pass all ordinances, rules, and make all regulations, proper or necessary, to carry into effect the powers granted to cities or villages, with such fines or penalties as the city council or board of trustees shall deem proper: Provided, no fine or penalty shall exceed $200, and no imprison- ment shall exceed six months for one offense. Territorial Jurisdiction—The city council and board of trustees shall also have jurisdiction in and over all places within one-half mile of the city or village limits, for the purpose of enforcing health and quarantine ordin- ances and regulations thereof.—[Bevised Statutes, Chapter 24. Sec. 44.] POWERS OF COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP BOARDS OF HEALTH [Act approved May 10, in force July 1,1901. Amended by act in force July 1,190S.] (Extracts.) Section 1. The board of county commissioners in counties not under township organization, and the supervisor, assessor and town clerk of every town in counties under township organization, shall constitute a board of health, and on the breaking out of any contagious or infectious disease in their