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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![luting substances in such a manner and to such a degree that they shall be no longer deleterious to the public health before being cast or allowed to flow into the waters thereby polluted : provided, that before making such order the said board shall assign a time and place for hearing the party or parties to be affected, and shall give him or them an opportunity of being heard thereon, and the orders herein before provided shall be issued only after such notice and hearing; and provided, also, that upon the application of anjT city or town to said board alleging the violation of any of the provisions of this act, and the pollution of its water supply thereb}', it shall be the duty of said board to grant a hearing upon due notification of the party or parties to be affected as aforesaid, and upon proof of such violation to issue the order or orders already mentioned in this section. Sect. 5. The supreme judicial court or any one of its justices in term time or vacation shall have power to issue an injunction to enforce the orders of the said board of health. Sect. 6. The orders of the said board of health shall be served upon the party or parties found to have violated any of the provisions of this act, and such party or par- ties if aggrieved therebj7 shall have the right of appeal to a jury, and be subject to the provisions of law con- tained in the fifty-sixth and fifty-eighth sections of chapter twenty-six of the General Statutes, and chapter two hun- dred and sixty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five. During the pendency of the appeal the pollu- tion against which the order has issued shall not be con- tinued contrary to the order of the said board. Sect. 7. This act shall take effect upon the first day of July in the yeav eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. [Approved April 26, 1878. Orders of board may be enforced by supreme judicial court. Orders to be served upon par- ties. Right of appeal to a jury- To take etfect July 1, 1878. An Act concerning the sewage of the state prison in the town of concord. [Statutes of 1878, chap. 10.] Section 1. The warden and board of inspectors of Sewage of the state prison, in the town of Concord, are hereby noatt0Pdisn prohibited from causing or permitting the discharge, charge into through any sewer or drain, of an}7 portion of the sewage Rive°r? of said prison into the Concord River or any of its tribu- taries, unless said sewage shall have been purified or cleansed in a manner satisfactory to the state board of health. Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. When act [Approved February 13, 1878. ukes effect-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
