Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised.
- Massachusetts
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised. 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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![State board of health may order persons car- rying on offensive trades to desist. G. S. 26, 1869, 420. Penalty. Hearing to be had after notice. Supreme judicial court may issue in- junction to prevent erection, &c, of buildings to be occupied for, offensive trades. G. S. 26, §■§ 52-60. enlarge or extend the same without first obtaining the written consent and permission of the major and alder- men or selectmen of the city or town in which such build- ing or premises are situated in the manner provided in this section. Sect. 2. Whenever in any city or town, containing more than four thousand inhabitants * airy building or premises are occupied or used by an}T person or persons or corporation for carrying on the business of slaughter- ing cattle, sheep or other animals, or for melting or ren- dering establishments, or for other noxious or offensive trades, the state board of health may, if in their judg- ment the public health or the public comfort and conven- ience shall require, order any person or persons or corpo- ration carrying on said trades or occupations, to desist and cease from further carrying on said trades or occupa- tions in such building or premises, and any person or persons or corporation continuing to occupy or use such building or premises for carrying on said trades or occu- pations after being ordered to desist and cease therefrom by said board, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars for eveiy month he or they continue to occupy and use such building or premises for cariying on said trades or occupations after being ordered to desist and cease therefrom by said board as aforesaid, and in like proportion for a longer or shorter time : provided, that on any application to said board to exercise the powers in this section conferred upon them, a time and place for hearing the parties shall be assigned by said board and due notice thereof given to the party against whom the application is made, and the order herein before provided shall only be issued after such notice and hearing. Sect. 3. The supreme judicial court, or any one of the justices thereof, in term time or vacation, shall have power to issue an injunction to prevent the erection, occu- pancy, use, enlargement or extension of any building or premises occupied or used for the trades or occupations aforesaid, without the written consent and permission provided in section one of this act being first obtained ; and also in like manner to enforce the orders of the state board of health issued under section two of this act. [Approved April 8, 1871. An Act to provide for. an investigation of the ques- tion OF THE USE OF RUNNING STREAMS AS COMMON SEWERS IN ITS RELATION TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH. [Statutes of 1875, chap. 192.] state board Section 1. The state board of health shall investigate, of health to by themselves or by agents appointed by them, the subject investigate subject of * Amended, chapter 308, Acts and Resolves, 1874, by striking out the words containing more than four thousand inhabitants. (This note applies also to Sect. 1.)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
