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

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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Acts of 1890, 74, § 2. This act shall take effect in any city of the Common- ^*c^!j£° wealth when accepted by the city council thereof. ^council Acts of 1890, 132, § 1. Every building situated on a public or private street, Buildings to -> ° be con- COUrt or passageway, in which there is a public sewer, nected with shall, when required by the board of health of the city or when.' town in which it stands, be connected by a good and suffi- cient particular drain with such public sewer. Acts of 1890, 132, §2. Any person owning, leasing or maintaining any building Penalty, not connected with a public sewer as provided in the pre- ceding section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars. P.S., 80, §14. In case of a severe epidemic, or other danger to the in case of public health, the mayor and aldermen of the city where etc., boards there is no board of health may, upon the request of one maybe ap- hundred voters residing therein, appoint such a board to citieVnot11 act during the emergency, with the powers and duties of ete.epUug' a board of health duly appointed under section eight [of i 079 chapter 80, Public Statutes]. P.S-, 80, §15. In cities where the city physician is ex officio a member city physi- of the board of health, he shall be appointed by the mayor, appointed, with the approval of the board of aldermen, for a term ^cZe& of three years, subject to removal, for cause, by the same oard^how authority. Jg™d- P.S., 80, §16. The board of health in a city or town may appoint an Board of , , , , j. ., . „ health may agent or agents to act for it in cases of emergency, or appoint when it cannot be conveniently assembled; and such a* agent so appointed shall have all the authority which the board appointing him had ; but he shall, within two days, report his action in each case to it for its approval, and shall be directly responsible to it and under its control and direction. An agent appointed to make sanitary inspections may make complaint in cases of violation of any law, ordinance, or by-law relating to the public health in a city or town. 1866 1879

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