Manual of the board of health of the health depatment of the city of New York, 1874.

  • New York (N.Y.). Board of Health
Date:
1874
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Credit: Manual of the board of health of the health depatment of the city of New York, 1874. 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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    Sec. 130.* That no ship, boat, or other vessel or artic]'^, shall be taken or allowed by any person to come into or lay to, or at, or within any dock, pier, bulkhead, or slip, or be placed thereon, for the purpose of the shipment or removal of any offal, garbage, rubbish, blood, or offensive animal or vege- table matter, dirt, or dead animals, or for the use of any con- tractor about the removal of any of the foregoing substances, without a permit from this Department. Reports as to Contagious and Infectious Diseases. Sec. 131. That every physician shall report to the Sani- tary Bureau, in writinp-. every person having a contagious Hjsease (and the state of his or her disease, and his or her place of dwelling and name, if known) which such physician has prescribed for or attended for the first time since having such a contagious disease, during any part of the preceding twenty-four hours; but not more than two reports shall be required in one week concerning the same person ; but every attending or practising physician thereat must, at his peril, see that such report is or has been made by some attending physician. Sec. 132. That it shall be the duty of each and every practising physician in the City of New York to report, in writing, to the Board of Health, the death of any of his pa- tients who shall have died in said city, of contagious or in- fectious disease, within twenty-four hours thereafter, and to state in such report the specific name and type of such disease. Sec. 133. That every keeper of any boarding-house or lodging-house, and every inn-keeper and hotel-keeper, shall, within twenty-four hours, report in writing to the Sanitary Bureau, the same particulars in the last section required of any physician concerning any person being at any of the aforesaid houses or hotels, and attacked with any contagious disease. * As amended August 26,18T3.