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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![drainage and sewer- age in this Common- wealth, and devise and report a system thereof; and how far sewage may be utilized. 1869, 420. of the correct method of drainage and sewerage of the cities and towns of the Commonwealth, especially with regard to the pollution of rivers, estuaries and ponds by such drainage or sewerage, and to devise and report a system or method by which said cities or towns inay be properly drained, and said rivers, estuaries and ponds may be protected against pollution, so far as possible, all with the view to the preservation of the health of the inhabitants of this Commonwealth, and the securing to the several cities and towns thereof a proper S3'stem of drainage and sewerage, without injury to the rights and health of others ; also, to report how far said sewage may be utilized and disposed of. Sect. 2. Said state board of health, or agents em- ployed by them, may enter upon and make surveys of lands, so far as may be required, and without unnecessaiy injuiy thereto, and said board maj* employ such assist- ants, with the consent of the governor, as from time to time may be expedient. They shall report to the next general court not later than the first day of February, eighteen hundred and seventy-six. Sect. 3. The compensation of the members of said state board of health or agents emploj-ed by them for services under this act, shall be fixed by the governor and council, which, with the expenses incurred by them, to be approved b}- the same authority, shall be paid by the treasurer of the Commonwealth on the warrant of the governor. Sect. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. When act [Approved May 8, 1875. State board of health may enter upon lands and employ assistants; when to report to legislature. Compen- sation of board and agents, and their ex- penses. takes effect. Resolve authorizing the state board of health to examine into the pollution of sources of water supply, and report thereon. [Acts and Resolves of 1877, chap. 56.] Resolved, That the state board of health be and they Pollution of are hereby authorized to inquire what legislation is neces- ^ter^up- saiy to prevent the pollution of streams and ponds used ply. as sources of water supply, by cities and towns in the Commonwealth, with anthorit}* to make examinations, call witnesses, and to report, by bill or otherwise, to the next general court. [Approved April 27, 1877.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
