Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the medical examiner laws, the laws relating to the registration of vital statistics, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relating to the same / prepared by direction of the State Board of Health.
- Massachusetts
- Date:
- 1894
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the medical examiner laws, the laws relating to the registration of vital statistics, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relating to the same / prepared by 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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![spread thereof, and shall consult thereon with the local authorities, and shall have co-ordinate powers as a board f^f haved of health, in every place, with the board of health or coordinate ' ./ i ' powers with health officer thereof, or with the mayor and aldermen or locaiboards. the selectmen, if no such board or officer exists in such place. [For other powers and duties of the state board of health see pages 37, 47, 51, 53, 59, 61, 65, 68, 70, 78, 96, 103 and 107.] TOWN AND CITY BOARDS OF HEALTH. P. S., 80, § 3. A town, respecting which no provision is made by Towns may special law for choosing a board of health, may, at its board of - .in t j? ,, health, etc., annual meeting or at a meeting legally warned for the orthe select- purpose choose a board of health by ballot, to consist of act. not less than three nor more than nine persons ; or may 1797 choose a health officer. If no such board or officer is 1817 chosen, the selectmen shall be the board of health. Acts of 1885, 307, § 1. If a person elected a member of a board of health in Vacancy in . local board any town, respecting which no provision is made by special by refusal law for choosing a board of health, after being duly noti- office, how fled of his election in the manner in which town officers are required to be notified, refuses or neglects to accept said office, or if a member of a board of health in such town declines further service, or from change of residence or otherwise becomes unable to attend to the duties of the board, the remaining members shall, in writing, give notice of the fact to the selectmen of such town, and the two boards shall thereupon, after giving public notice of at least one week, jointly proceed to fill such vacancy. p. s., 80, § 4. Except where different provision is made by law, the City council • i ■ ^ i may appoint city council of a city may appoint a board of health ; may such board; constitute either branch of such council, or a joint or sep- self act. arate committee of their body, a board of health, either for general or special purposes; and may prescribe the manner in which the powers and duties of the board shall](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069694_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
